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CHORD
RE X05035
REdim5 X05034
RE X00232
MIm7 022033
SOL 320033
DOadd9 X32033
LA7 X02233
SOL/FA# 200033
DO/SI 020033
INTRO
RE REdim5
(repeat as necessary)
SOL MIm7
We were watching TV, Watching TV
SOL MIm7
We were watching TV, Watching TV
DOadd9 LA7
DOadd9 LA7
DOadd9 DO/SI LA7 RE
SOL MIm7
In Tiananmen Square, Lost my baby there
SOL MIm7
My yellow rose, In her bloodstained clothes
DOadd9 LA7
She was a short order pastry chef
DOadd9 LA7
In a Dim Sum dive on the Yangtze tideway
DOadd9 SOL/SI
She had shiny hair
LA7 RE
She was the daughter of an engineer
SOL MIm7
Won't you shed a tear, For my yellow rose
SOL MIm7
My yellow rose, In her bloodstained clothes
DOadd9 LA7
She had perfect breasts, She had high hopes
DOadd9 LA7
She had almond eyes, She had yellow thighs
DO DO/SI LA7 RE
She was a student of philosophy
SOL SOL/FA# MIm7
Won't you grieve with me, for my yellow rose,
SOL SOL/FA# MIm7 RE
Shed a tear, For her bloodstained clothes
SOL SOL/FA# MIm7
She had shiny hair, She had perfect breasts
DOadd9 DO/SI LA7 RE
She had high hopes, She had almond eyes
SOL SOL/FA#
She had yellow thighs
MIm7 RE
She was the daughter of an engineer
SOL DO
So get out your pistols, Get out your stones
SOL DO
Get out your knives, Cut them to the bone
SOL SOL/FA# MIm7
They are the lackeys of the grocer's machine
SOL DO
They built the dark satanic mills
SOL DO
That manufacture hell on earth
SOL SOL/FA# MIm7
They bought the front row seats on Calvary
DO RE
They are irrelevant to me
RE REdim5
And I grieve for my sister
People of China
Do not forget do not forget
The children who died for you
Long live the Republic
Did we do anything after this
I've a feeling we did
SOL MIm7
We were watching TV, Watching TV
SOL MIm7
We were watching TV, Watching TV
DOadd9 LA7
She wore a white bandanna that said 'Freedom now'
DOadd9
She thought the Great Wall of China
LA7
Would come tumbling down
SOL SOL/FA#
She was a student
MIm7 RE
Her father was an engineer
SOL MIm7
Won't you shed a tear, For my yellow rose
SOL MIm7
My yellow rose, In her bloodstained clothes
DOadd9 LA7
Her grandpa fought old Chiang Kai-shek
DOadd9 LA7
That no-good low-down dirty rat
DO DO/SI
Who used to order his troops
LA7 RE
To fire on the women and children
Imagine that imagine that
SOL MIm7
And in the spring of '48
SOL MIm7
Mao Tse-tung got quite irate
SOL SOL/FA# MIm7
And he kicked that old dictator Chiang
RE
Out of the state of China
SOL MIm7
Chiang Kai-shek came down in Formosa
SOL LA7
And they armed the island of Quemoy
SOL
And the shells were flying across the China Sea
MIm7 DO DO/SI LA7 RE
And they turned Formosa into a shoe factory called Taiwan
SOL DOadd9
And she is different from Cro-Magnon man
SOL DOadd9
She's different from Anne Boleyn
SOL SOL/FA# MIm7
She is different from the Rosenbergs
RE
And from the unknown Jew
SOL DOadd9 SOL
She is different from the unknown Nicaraguan
DOadd9 SOL SOL/FA#
Half superstar half victim
MIm7 DOadd9 RE
She's a victor star conceptually new
SOL DOadd9
And she is different from the Dodo
SOL DOadd9
And from the Kankanbono
SOL SOL/FA# MIm7
She is different from the Aztec
RE
And from the Cherokee
SOL DOadd9
She's everybody's sister
SOL DOadd9
She's symbolic of our failure
SOL SOL/FA# MIm7
She's the one in fifty million
DOadd9 RE
Who can help us to be free
SOL
Because she died on TV
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