[Verse 1] From France he wrote with quill and ink, Of liberty and laws unseen! Bastiat said The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else! [Chorus] Heave ho, for Bastiat, sharp and clear! The seen and unseen, banish fear! Heave ho, beware the plunderer's hand! Protect your rights across the land! [Verse 2] When taking wealth becomes the norm, A twisted code the thieves embrace! Bastiat said When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it! [Chorus] Heave ho, for Bastiat, sharp and clear! The seen and unseen, banish fear! Heave ho, beware the plunderer's hand! Protect your rights across the land! [Verse 3] A noble cause can meet its doom, Not by attack, but weak defense! Bastiat said The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is, not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly defended! [Chorus] Heave ho, for Bastiat, sharp and clear! The seen and unseen, banish fear! Heave ho, beware the plunderer's hand! Protect your rights across the land! [Verse 4] All look to government for aid, Bastiat said Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state lives at the expense of everyone! Before the laws by men were made, Bastiat said Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place! [Chorus] Heave ho, for Bastiat, sharp and clear! The seen and unseen, banish fear! Heave ho, beware the plunderer's hand! Protect your rights across the land!
