Act 3: Scene 1: But the Marquis of Boulli Has a Trump Card Up His Sleeve - Roger Waters

Roger Waters - Ça Ira - Act 3: Scene 1: But the Marquis of Boulli Has a Trump Card Up His Sleeve

Disc 1
01.	The Gathering Storm
02.	Overture
03.	Act 1: Scene 1: A Garden in Vienna 1765
04.	Act 1: Scene 1: Madame Antoine, Madame Antoine
05.	Act 1: Scene 2: Kings, Sticks and Birds
06.	Act 1: Scene 2: Honest Bird, Simple Bird
07.	Act 1: Scene 2: I Want to Be King
08.	Act 1: Scene 2: Let Us Break All the Shields
09.	Act 1: Scene 3: The Grievances of the People
10.	Act 1: Scene 4: France in Disarray
11.	Act 1: Scene 4: To Laugh Is to Know How to Live
12.	Act 1: Scene 4: Slavers, Landlords, Bigots at Your Door
13.	Act 1: Scene 5: The Fall of the Bastille
14.	Act 1: Scene 5: To Freeze in the Dead of Night
15.	Act 1: Scene 5: So to the Streets in the Pouring Rain
16.	Act 2: Scene 1: Dances and Marches
17.	Act 2: Scene 1: Now Hear Ye!
18.	Act 2: Scene 1: Flushed With Wine
19.	Act 2: Scene 2: The Letter
20.	Act 2: Scene 2: My Dear Cousin Bourbon of Spain
21.	Act 2: Scene 2: The Ship of State Is All at Sea
22.	Act 2: Scene 3: Silver, Sugar and Indigo
23.	Act 2: Scene 3: To the Windward Isles
24.	Act 2: Scene 4: The Papal Edict
25.	Act 2: Scene 4: In Paris There’s a Rumble Under the Ground
Disc 2
01.	Act 3: Scene 1: The Fugitive King
02.	Act 3: Scene 1: But the Marquis of Boulli Has a Trump Card Up His Sleeve
03.	Act 3: Scene 1: To Take Your Hat Off
04.	Act 3: Scene 1: The Echoes Never Fade From That Fusillade
05.	Act 3: Scene 2: The Commune de Paris
06.	Act 3: Scene 2: Vive la Commune de Paris
07.	Act 3: Scene 2: The National Assembly Is Confused
08.	Act 3: Scene 3: The Execution of Louis Capet
09.	Act 3: Scene 3: Adieu Louis for You It’s Over
10.	Act 3: Scene 4: Marie Antoinette – The Last Night on Earth
11.	Act 3: Scene 4: Adieu My Good and Tender Sister
12.	Act 3: Scene 5: Liberty
13.	Act 3: Scene 5: And in the Bushes Where They Survive

KING & QUEEN
But the Marquis of Boulli had a trump card up his sleeve

RINGMASTER
The Marquis of Boulli a good General
And fiercely loyal to the crown
With his army in the East
Hatched a plan to see the King released

QUEEN
The Queen assuming the title Baroness Korrf
Her papers signed by the King of course
Set forth before the break of day
To join up with Boulli in Alsace Lorraine

OFFICER
From the shadows King Louis disguised as a humble valet
Sneaks out to make his getaway
With a small entourage of course

OFFICER & CHORUS
Just a few hundred light horse

TROUBLEMAKER
Well let him go, let him run, with his Austrian whore

TROUBLEMAKER & MALE CHORUS
Let him go to Prussia

OFFICER & MALE CHORUS
Let him go to Austria
Let him go and die there

TROUBLEMAKER & MALE CHORUS
Let him go

OFFICER & MALE CHORUS
Let him go

TROUBLEMAKER, OFFICER & MALE CHORUS
Let him rot wit his Austrian Queen

CHORUS
That the Republic at last can come into being
But wait, fate would intervene

OFFICER
A keen-eyed postmaster by chance

OFFICER & CHORUS
Recognized the King and Queen and

CHORUS
Rode ahead to raise the alarm

RINGMASTER
In Parliament the moderates have their say

CONDORCET
The King has not fled
He was kidnapped instead
And spirited away

OFFICER
To suggest that the King would run is a damnable lie

CONDORCET
It sticks in our throats and conflicts with our national pride

OFFICER
But the Austrian court
And Brunswick of course
Say they'll declare war
If the King's not restored

TROUBLEMAKER (mimicking Brunswick)
You must leave the King alone
Or all of Paris will be torn down
Down to the very last stone

TROUBLEMAKER & OFFICER
Paris will be pulverized
Down to the very last bone

QUEEN
When the carriage returned
The acrid smoke of bridges burned
Hung heavy like a stifled sigh
And they say the Queen had a tear in here eye

OFFICER
When through the carriage window
Louis turned to face his peers
A loyal friend, the Comte de Dampierre
Doffed his cap with elegance
In deference to the King
A brave and foolish thing to do
In light o f the prevailing mood

CHORUS
A few drops in her eye
A nice touch, a good try
Too little, too late
For a last roll of the die

RINGMASTER & CHORUS
The crowd in a gesture less than elegant
Brutally remove his head

RINGMASTER
Brutally remove his head

CHORUS
Brutally remove his head