"To Take Your Hat Off" lyrics - ROGER WATERS
[Children's Chorus:]
To take your hat off
Is the gesture of a toff
But even his lordship needs a head
To take his hat off of
So Dampierre lost his life
By being somewhat too polite
In face of all the pain and fear that festered
For more than a thousand years
[Sergeant (off stage):]
By the left, Quick March!
[Children's Chorus:]
Dampierre has lost his head
The King has lost his grown
The carriage rolls through the streets
The crowd jeers, the wheels squeak
Hey, hey, what goes around
Always comes around
[Male Chorus:]
IN Germany and England
They celebrate our liberty
Over there by and by
They'll have their 14th of July
In Germany and England they fete our
[Male Chorus & Children:]
Liberty
[Officer:]
The National Assembly try to whitewash the King
[Male Chorus:]
His brothers in law
Are camped on every border
They fear to depose him
Would men war
[Marie Marianne, Ringmaster, Officer & Chorus:]
But feelings run deep
And the man in the street
Hungry, weak but unbowed
Scents the taste so sweet of peacock meat
As it wafts over the crowd
So they march to the Camps du Mars
To demand Republic now
[Children's Chorus:]
Republic here, now, today
The National Assembly
Has got it wrong
[Sergeant:]
Present...
[Children's Chorus:]
We sing in the Camps du Mars
[Sergeant:]
Take Aim...
[Children's Chorus:]
We sing of what we want
[Sergeant:]
FIRE!
[Children's Chorus:]
Repub-
Ca Ira (2005)
- The Gathering Storm
- Overture
- A Garden In Vienna 1765
- Madame Antoine, Madame Antoine
- Kings, Sticks And Birds
- Honest Bird, Simple Bird
- I Want To Be King
- Let Us Break All The Shields
- The Grievances Of The People
- France In Disarray
- To Laugh Is To Know How To Live
- Slavers, Landlords, Bigots At Your Door
- The Fall Of The Bastille
- To Freeze In The Dead Of Night
- So To The Streets In The Pouring Rain
- Dances And Marches
- Now Hear Ye!
- Flushed With Wine
- The Letter
- My Dear Cousin Bourbon Of Spain
- The Ship Of State Is All At Sea
- Silver, Sugar And Indigo
- To The Windward Isles
- The Papal Edict
- In Paris There's A Rumble Under The Ground
- The Fugitive King
- But The Marquis Of Boulli Has A Trump Card Up His Sleeve
- To Take Your Hat Off
- The Echoes Never Fade From That Fusillade
- The Commune De Paris
- Vive La Commune De Paris
- The National Assembly Is Confused
- The Execution Of Louis Capet
- Adieu Louis For You It's Over
- Marie Antoinette - The Last Night On Earth
- Adieu My Good And Tender Sister
- Liberty
- And In The Bushes Where They Survive