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iron chancellor - otto von bismarck german unification rap - tom richey lyrics

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[intro]
warm water records (ay, ay)
otto von bismarck
looks like we got some german states out there that need to be unified (yeah)

blood and iron, more like blood and bars
shoutout to ted and his friends

[verse 1]
i’m the iron chancellor
and i feel an obligation
unify the german states
under prussian domination

a conservative at heart
but i’ve got a little trick
it’s the politics of power
call it real-pol-i-tik

an alliance with the liberals
‘cause i’m industry emphatic
and they’re secular they like my
kulturkampf against the catholics

ban the social democrats
cause i’m gonna put it bluntly
that germany will never be
a socialist country

i-i-i’ve got old age pensions
and some accident insurance
if you’re hurt at work i’ve got your back
you’ve got my re-ssurance

call it state socialism
now the liberals wanna hate
but without the working cl-sses
we can’t unify the state

the position of prussia
in germany at this hour
will not be determined by its
liberalism, but its power

great questions aren’t decided
by speeches or majorities
it’s blood and iron, —–
i-i’ll use war to spread authority

with the austrians as allies
we took schleswig and holstein
then declared war on austria
the next step in my grand design

prussia won in seven weeks
austria wasn’t any match
then it’s time to provoke france
with the ems dispatch

moltke led a modern army
armed with telegraphs and trains
france decisively defeated
gave up alsace and lorraine

after unifying germany
then i really had some clout
now, it’s 1890 and uh, [music stops]

… i’m out

- tom richey lyrics

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