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FAMOUS SONGS
her's was not the fault! And so they were com-pelled to listen to the indescribably insulting ode (sung to the melody of " Carmagnole").
" Madame Veto avait promis De faire egorger tout Paris Maison coup a manque Grace a nos canonniers
Dansons la carmagnole
Vive le son du canon !"
with many repetitions. These verses soon ex-tended to thirteen, and when published by Frere, the song spread like wildfire.
One of the earliest French revolutionary songs, and France has sown a goodly crop from first to [last, is " £a Ira," and we may set its date down to October, 1789, when the Parisians marched to Versailles. M. Gustave Choquet says that the words were suggested to a street singer named Ladre by General La Fayette, who remembered Franklin's favourite saying at each progress of the American insurrection. Here is the burden of the song:
" Ah ! 9a ira, 9a ira, 9a ira !
Le peuple en ce jour sans cesse repete: Ah I 9a ira, 9a ira, 9a ira ! Malgx6 les mutins, tout reussira," 47 |
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