It was the year of '93   The French did plant an olive tree   The symbol of great liberty   And the people danced around it   Oh, wasn't I telling you?   The French declared courageously   That Equality, Freedom and Fraternity   Would be the cry of every nation      In '94 a new campaign   The tools of darkness did maintain   Gall's brave sons they did form a league   And their foes they were dumb-founded   They gave to Flanders liberty   And all its people they set free   The Dutch and Austrians home did flee   And the Dukes they were confounded      Behold may all of human-kind   Emancipated with the French combine   May laurels green all on them shine   And their sons and daughters long wear them   May every tyrant shake with dread   And tremble for their guilty head   May the Fleur-de-Lis in dust be laid   And they no longer wear them      For Church and State in close embrace   Is the burden of the Human Race   And the people tell you to your face   That you will long repent it   For Kings in power and preaching drones   Are the cause of all your heavy groans   Down from your pulpits, down from your thrones   You will tumble unlamented   Oh, wasn't I telling you?   The French declared courageously   That Equality, Freedom and Fraternity   Would be the cry of every nation