We were watchin' tv...watchin'tv
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We were watchin' tv...watchin'tv
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In Tiananmen Square
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lost my baby there
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My yellow rose
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And her bloodstained clothes
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She was a short order pastry chef
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In a Dim Sum dive on the Yangtze tideway
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She had shiny hair
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She was the daughter of an engineer
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Won't you shed a tear
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For my yellow rose
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My yellow rose
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And her bloodstained clothes
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She had perfect breasts
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She had high hopes
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She had almond eyes
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She had yellow thighs
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She was a student of philosophy
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Won't you grieve with me
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For my yellow rose
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Shed a tear
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For her bloodstained clothes
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She had shiny hair
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She had perfect breasts
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She had high hopes
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She had almond eyes
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She had yellow thighs
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She was the daughter of an engineer
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So get out your pistols
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Get out your stones
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Get out your knives
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Cut them to the bone
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They are the lackeys of the grocer's machine
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They built the dark satanic mills
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That manufacture hell on earth
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They bought the front row seats on Calvary
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They are irrelevant to me
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And I grieve for my sister
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People of China
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Do not forget do not forget
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The children who died for you
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Long live the Republic
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Did we do anything after this
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I've a feeling we did
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We were watchin' TV...Watchin' TV
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We were watchin' TV...Watchin' TV
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She wore a white bandanna that said
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Freedom now
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She thought the Great Wall of China
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Would come tumbling down
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She was a student
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Her father was an engineer
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Won't you shed a tear
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For my yellow rose
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My yellow rose
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And her bloodstained clothes
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Her grandpa fought old Chiang Kai-shek
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That no-good low-down dirty rat
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Who used to order his troops
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To fire on the women and children
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Imagine that imagine that
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And in the spring of '48
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Mao Tse-tung got quite irate
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And he kicked that old dictator Chiang
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Out of the state of China
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Chiang Kai-shek came down in Formosa
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And they armed the island of Quemoy
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And the shells were flying across the China Sea
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And they turned Formosa into a shoe factory
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Called Taiwan
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And she is different from Cro-Magnon man
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She's different from Anne Boleyn
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She is different from the Rosenbergs
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And from the unknown Jew
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She is different from the unknown Nicaraguan
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Half superstar half victim
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She's a victor star conceptually new
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And she is different from the Dodo
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And from the Kankanbono
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She is different from the Aztec
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And from the Cherokee
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She's everybody's sister
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She's symbolic of our failure
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She's the one in fifty million
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Who can help us to be free
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Because she died on TV
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Watching TV
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| Don Henley |
