The French Revolution chords by History Teachers
Guitar chords with lyrics
- Difficulty: Beginner 👶
Key: Am
Intro:
F G
Inequality, the relics of feudalism
Am C
Revolution in France
F G
Oh, The Three Estates ensured nobles' favoritism
E Am
Revolution in France
Am
La la Liberté
Am
E-E-galité
Am
Fra-Fra-ternité
Am
A Revolution
Verse 1:
Am
Don’t want no taxes
C F
I’m paying too much
Am
Let them eat cake
C F
We had a banquet for lunch
Am
I need my bread
C F
Bread bread bread
Am C G
Off with her head
Am C F
It went from 8 sous to 12 in a year
Am C F
Exactly what impoverished peasants had feared
Am
The royals jeered
C F
Ha ha ha
Am C G
There’s more for us
Refrain:
F
There was a famine
F
The peasants wouldn’t pay
F
Bad malnutrition and tooth decay
Chorus:
F G
It went from famine to Napoleon’s war
Am C
You and me, let’s start a revolution
F G
We will not take this poverty anymore
Am C
You and me, let’s start a revolution
F G
On a tennis court, we swore to a constitution
E Am
Revolution in France
F G
On July fourteen, we stormed the Bastille, we showed them
E Am
Revolution in France
Post-Chorus:
Am
La la Liberté
Am
E-E-galité
Am
Fra-Fra-ternité
Am
French Revolution
Verse 2:
Am
The month of August
C F
Seventeen eighty nine
Am
No feudalism
C F
Declaration of Rights
Am
August Decrees,
C Am C G
swept away the two estates
Am
Women of Paris
C F
March down to Versailles
Am
Carrying weapons, the
C F
French king they defied
Am
You’ll give us bread
C Am C G
Bread Bread! Or we’ll stab you dead!
Refrain:
F
A new constitution (I'm a Jacobin, baby!)
F
With a limited monarchy
F
It was a bad time for France
Chorus:
F G
We took on Austria, a war in the spring
Am C
Europe frightened by our revolution
F G
We will not take it Louis Sixteen must die
Am C
Tension heightened by our revolution
F G
Radical political mobs unite to start a
E Am
Revolution in France
F G
Breech-less sans-culottes of the Paris Commune demanded
E Am
Revolution in France
Post-Chorus:
Am
La la Liberté
Am
E-E-galité
Am
Fra-Fra-ternité
Am
French Revolution
Am
La la Liberté
Am
E-E-galité
Am
Fra-Fra-ternité
Am
French Revolution
Breakdown:
Am
Walk, walk, scaffold, baby
C G
Guillotine was going crazy
Am
Take heads of kings and ladies
C G
Europe armed for the invading
F
Walk walk scaffold, baby
F
Guillotine was going crazy
F
Robespierre, Reign of Terror
F
Did it for the Public Safety
Bridge:
F G
I want your loyalty or I’ll get my revenge
Am
I take you out
C
Till your rebellion ends
F
Don’t want no church
G
Catholicism’s dead
E Am
No room for God, Worship reason instead
Chorus:
F G
Good ol’ Notre Dame became a “temple of reason”
E Am
Revolution in France
F G
A new calendar with months named for times and seasons
E Am
Revolution in France
F G
The Terror ended and with Robespierre gone
Am C
Was this the ending of the revolution?
F G
Five members of the new Directory ruled
Am C
Could it be a permanent solution?
F G
Directory and legislature filled with corruption
E Am
Revolution in France
F G
Monarchists and wars would cause even more disruption
E Am
Revolution in France
Post-Chorus:
Am
Ooh, ooh, ooh la la
Am
Coo-Coo coup d'état
Am
Ooh, ooh, ooh la la
Am
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