INTRO: **D5 **D5 (repeat as necessary) G5 E5 We were watching TV, Watching TV G5 E5 We were watching TV, Watching TV C5 A5 C5 A5 C5 C5 A5 D5 G5 E5 In Tiananmen Square, Lost my baby there G5 E5 My yellow rose, In her bloodstained clothes C5 A5 She was a short order pastry chef C5 A5 In a Dim Sum dive on the Yangtze tideway C5 G5 She had shiny hair A5 D5 She was the daughter of an engineer G5 E5 Won't you shed a tear, For my yellow rose G5 E5 My yellow rose, In her bloodstained clothes C5 A5 She had perfect breasts, She had high hopes C5 A5 She had almond eyes, She had yellow thighs C5 C5 A5 D5 She was a student of philosophy G5 G5 E5 Won't you grieve with me, for my yellow rose, G5 G5 E5 D5 Shed a tear, For her bloodstained clothes G5 G5 E5 She had shiny hair, She had perfect breasts C5 C5 A5 D5 She had high hopes, She had almond eyes G5 G5 She had yellow thighs E5 D5 She was the daughter of an engineer G5 C5 So get out your pistols, Get out your stones G5 C5 Get out your knives, Cut them to the bone G5 G5 E5 They are the lackeys of the grocer's machine G5 C5 They built the dark satanic mills G5 C5 That manufacture hell on earth G5 G5 E5 They bought the front row seats on Calvary C5 D5 They are irrelevant to me **D5 **D5 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 G5 E5 We were watching TV, Watching TV G5 E5 We were watching TV, Watching TV C5 A5 She wore a white bandanna that said 'Freedom now' C5 She thought the Great Wall of China A5 Would come tumbling down G5 G5 She was a student E5 D5 Her father was an engineer G5 E5 Won't you shed a tear, For my yellow rose G5 E5 My yellow rose, In her bloodstained clothes C5 A5 Her grandpa fought old Chiang Kai-shek C5 A5 That no-good low-down dirty rat C5 C5 Who used to order his troops A5 D5 To fire on the women and children Imagine that imagine that G5 E5 And in the spring of '48 G5 E5 Mao Tse-tung got quite irate G5 G5 E5 And he kicked that old dictator Chiang D5 Out of the state of China G5 E5 Chiang Kai-shek came down in Formosa G5 A5 And they armed the island of Quemoy G5 And the shells were flying across the China Sea E5 C5 C5 A5 D5 And they turned Formosa into a shoe factory called Taiwan G5 C5 And she is different from Cro-Magnon man G5 C5 She's different from Anne Boleyn G5 G5 E5 She is different from the Rosenbergs D5 And from the unknown Jew G5 C5 G5 She is different from the unknown Nicaraguan C5 G5 G5 Half superstar half victim E5 C5 D5 She's a victor star conceptually new G5 C5 And she is different from the Dodo G5 C5 And from the Kankanbono G5 G5 E5 She is different from the Aztec D5 And from the Cherokee G5 C5 She's everybody's sister G5 C5 She's symbolic of our failure G5 G5 E5 She's the one in fifty million C5 D5 Who can help us to be free G5 Because she died on TV
