TROUBLEMAKER In Paris there’s a rumble under the ground It’s a sound of the printing press And like a volcano when it blows It spews out ideas like confetti, like snow
BOY Read all about it! Hold the front page! The street’s a theatre Each cafe...
CHORUS & CHILDREN ...A stage!
RINGMASTER But under every cafe awning There appears this papal warning
TROUBLEMAKER His Holiness the Pope, I fear Believes the Rights of Man to be a bad idea
REVOLUTIONARY PRIEST The Pope does not want the Rights of Man
COMPANY The Pope does not want the Rights of Man
REVOLUTIONARY PRIEST He finds them too profane
COMPANY
He finds them too profane
REVOLUTIONARY PRIEST When a man bites the apple
COMPANY When a man bites the apple
REVOLUTIONARY PRIEST He gets a taste for liberty
COMPANY He gets a taste for liberty
REVOLUTIONARY PRIEST He gets...a taste for liberty
MALE CHORUS He gets...a taste for liberty
ALTAR BOY The Pope declares that it’s a sin
MALE CHORUS The Pope declares that it’s a sin
TROUBLEMAKER So let us raid the apple tree Although the Pope does not agree
He blesses us with sleight of hand He doesn’t want the Rights of Man
ALTAR BOY The Pope declares that it’s a sin
MALE CHORUS The Pope declares that it’s a sin
REVOLUTIONARY PRIEST The Pope declares that it’s...a sin People are sharing the apples The Pope says, "Bless you but it’s still a sin"
COMPANY The Pope says, "Bless you but it’s still a sin"
REVOLUTIONARY PRIEST The Pope gives his blessing with sleight of hand
COMPANY The Pope gives his blessing with sleight of hand
REVOLUTIONARY PRIEST He doesn’t want the
REVOLUTIONARY PRIEST & MALE CHORUS Rights...of Man
ALTAR BOY The Pope declares that it’s a sin
MALE CHORUS The Pope declares that it’s a sin
TROUBLEMAKER But the Pope can change his mind like that Like trying on a different hat Turning on the stars above the politics and God and love Turning like an apple that shrivels on the sand
And when the core is rotten No one tastes the Rights of Man
REVOLUTIONARY PRIEST You never taste the Rights of Man...
CHORUS He does not want the Rights of Man The Pope does not want the Rights of Man He’s made his stand He washes his hands The Pope does not want... the Rights of Man
REVOLUTIONARY PRIEST Nothing but a prayer to hope for Nothing but a little wine to dream Nothing for this hunger but a handful of grain The horizon always the same
REVOLUTIOANRY PRIEST & TROUBLEMAKER Rooted in this earth Like our parents dead and gone Like the trees which are our emblem The horizon just goes on and on We’ll change it with a forest
REVOLUTIOANRY PRIEST, TROUBLEMAKER & CHORUS The olive and the oak tree Will be our flags!