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Bom-bom-bom... |
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The year was Nineteen-Hundred |
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T'is worth remembering |
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The men who lived through |
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Fifty-five days at Peking |
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T'was called the Boxer Insurrection |
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A bloody, Oriental war |
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Against all nations |
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Of the Diplomatic Corps |
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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 |
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And the flag of the Japanese |
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Then came the sound of bugles |
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The rolling drums of fury |
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And the streets of Peking |
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Were as empty as a tomb |
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Bom-bom-bom-bom-bom-bom |
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The Empress of all China |
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Gave the signal to begin |
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Let the foreign devils |
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Be driven from Peking |
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They stormed the French Ligation |
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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 "Sha Shou" 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 |
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You can hear them echoing |
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Bom-bom-bom-bom-bom-bom |
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Fifty-five days at Peking |
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Bom-bom-bom-bom-bom-bom |
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Bom-bom, bom-bom-bom |
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Fifty-five days at Peking |