55 Days At Peking

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[Verse 1]
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The year was nineteen hundred 'tis worth remembering
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The men who lived through fifty-five days at Peking
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T'was called the Boxers Insurrection of bloody oriental war
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Against all nations of the diplomatic core
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The flags of France and Britain
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How they fluttered in the breeze
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The Italian and the Russian and the flag of the Japanese
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Then came the sound of bugles
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And the rolling drums doom
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And the streets of Peking were as empty as a tomb

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[Verse 2]

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The Empress of all China gave the signal to begin
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And let the foreign devils be driven from Peking
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They stormed the French Legation
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They attacked with shot and shell
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And they came in blood red blouses
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Screaming "shashow" as they fell
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The drums have long been muffled
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The bugles cease to ring
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But through the ages you can hear them echoing

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Fifty-five days at Peking
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Fifty-five days at Peking