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Revolution

from We Are All Born Lucky by Jay Spears

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When you have a great wealthy world power which squanders its wealth on TWO foreign wars and has greedy unscrupulous unregulated speculators drive the economy into the ground, with the top 1% refusing to pay any taxes, what do you get? France in the 1780s, that's what! We rock; heads roll.

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REVOLUTION © 2011 Jay Spears Music ASCAP

Hey! the revolution's here
Guillotine in every square
Drag 'em down their marble stairs
Get 'em all within the year.

Did you pass tax breaks for the rich?
I hate to tell ya, death's a bitch:
Kick the heads around the square,
Dump the bodies in a ditch.

Judges who put corporations
Over people of our nation --
Here's your justice cold and clean:
Strap 'em in the guillotine.

If you want mercy, you can ask it
Once your head plops in the basket.
If you're wondering what went wrong,
Let us tell you with our song:

Hey! the revolution's here
Guillotine in every square
Drag 'em down their marble stairs
Get 'em all within the year.

Do you think you're Royalty?
Are you Aristocracy?
High on the Hierarchy?
Well that seems strange to me, Citizen,
That seems strange to me.

Some of 'em mean well no doubt;
Kill 'em all; let God sort 'em out.

INSTRUMENTAL

See, the Tree of Liberty
Must be watered frequently
With the blood of tyrants sure;
It's the best manure, Citizen,
The very best manure.

Shyster bankers, glib foreclosers,
Pension-plundering high rollers,
Bailed out with the people's bread,
Now it's time to lose your head.

Union-busters all beware,
Betray the people at your peril.
Liberty from kings won't spring,
So we seize it as we sing:

Hey! the revolution's here
Guillotine in every square
Drag 'em down their marble stairs
Get 'em all within the year.

Vivre la revolution!
Guillotine? Mais oui, hon, hon!!
Capturez les mere a frere,
Adieu a les derrier!

Hey! the revolution's here
Guillotine in every square
Drag 'em down their marble stairs
Get 'em all within the year.

credits

from We Are All Born Lucky, released May 21, 2013
Saxes: Jacky Klinek
Harpsichord & Organ: Martin Brookes
Drums: Doug Smith
Chorus of Disgruntled 18th-Century French Peasants: Annie Combs, Kim Williams, Mark and Teresa Garcia Herrier, Scott and Nancy Weintraub, Wendy Radford
Words & music, guitar, bass, & vocals: Jay Spears

Recorded at The Study, Larchmont Village, CA by Alec Dixon
Additional recording by Martin Brookes at Remote Cabin Studio, L.A., CA

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Jay Spears Los Angeles, California

Native L.A. singer-songwriter Jay Spears' debut CD "BOY HOWDY" features humorous, boy-meets-boy pop tunes with titles like I LIKE MIKE and CRYIN' OVER BRIAN.
Jay's sophomore CD "PLAYIN ON MY TEAM" includes the full-choir gospel rocker, SMAK DEM CHRISTIANS DOWN, the video for which has over 80,000 views on youtube.
Now here comes his third CD: We Are All Born Lucky.
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