“La Ravachole” (1893), Sébastien Faure, lyrics in English below:

In the great city of Paris

There are well-fed bourgeois

There are the poor

Who have an empty stomach

The former are greedy

Long live the sound long live the sound

The former are greedy

Long live the sound

Of the explosion!

Let’s dance the Ravachole

Long live the sound long live the sound

Let’s dance the Ravachole

Of the explosion!

Ah ça ira ça ira ça ira

All the bourgeois will taste the bomb

Ah ça ira ça ira ça ira

We’ll blow up all the bourgeois

We’ll blow them up!

There are sell out magistrates

There are big-bellied financiers

There are cops

But for all these scoundrels

There’s dynamite

Long live the sound long live the sound

There’s dynamite

Long live the sound

Of the explosion!

There are the feeble-minded senators

There are the rotten deputies

There are the generals

Murderers and executioners

Butchers in uniform

Long live the sound long live the sound

Butchers in uniform

Long live the sound

Of the explosion!

Ah’ goddamit its time to put an end to this

We’ve moaned and suffered long enough

No half-way war

No more cowardly pity

Death to the bourgeoisie!

Long live the sound long live the sound

Death to the bourgeoisie!

Long live the sound

Of the explosion!