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Watching TV

Key: G

Introduction:

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                                     G                               Em7 
We were watching TV,         Watching TV
                                     G                               Em7 
We were watching TV,         Watching TV

                                   G                                         Em7 
In Tiananmen Square,         Lost my baby there
                       G                                                                     Em7 
My yellow rose,                   In her bloodstained clothes
                     C9               A7 
She was a short order pastry chef
           C9                                       A7 
In a Dim Sum dive on the Yangtze tideway
                 C9               G/B 
She had shiny hair
                       A7                                           D 
She was the daughter of an engineer
                                   G                                           Em7 
Won't you shed a tear,     For my yellow rose
                         G                                                               Em7 
My yellow rose,                   In her bloodstained clothes
                 C9                                       A7 
She had perfect breasts, She had high hopes
                 C9                                       A7 
She had almond eyes,         She had yellow thighs
                     C           C/B     A7           D 
She was a student of philosophy
                                             G     G/F#       Em7 
Won't you grieve with me, for my yellow rose,
                         G       G/F#     Em7                                         D 
Shed a tear,                         For her bloodstained clothes
                 G               G/F#                       Em7 
She had shiny hair,           She had perfect breasts
               C9             C/B                   A7                   D 
She had high hopes,           She had almond eyes
                 G                     G/F# 
She had yellow thighs
                         Em7                                       D 
She was the daughter of an engineer
                                 G                                                   C 
So get out your pistols, Get out your stones
                               G                                                     C 
Get out your knives,         Cut them to the bone
                           G               G/F#             Em7 
They are the lackeys of the grocer's machine
                               G                                 C 
They built the dark satanic mills
                   G                                       C 
That manufacture hell on earth
                                 G               G/F#               Em7 
They bought the front row seats on Calvary
                   C                               D 
They are irrelevant to me
           * *D                            * *Ddim5
                                     G                               Em7 
We were watching TV,         Watching TV
                                     G                               Em7 
We were watching TV,         Watching TV
                       C9                                           A7 
She wore a white bandanna that said 'Freedom now'
                               C9 
She thought the Great Wall of China
                 A7 
Would come tumbling down
 G                             G/F# 
She was a student
           Em7                             D 
Her father was an engineer
                                     G                                         Em7 
Won't you shed a tear,     For my yellow rose
                         G                                                                   Em7 
My yellow rose,                   In her bloodstained clothes
         C9                             A7 
Her grandpa fought old Chiang Kai-shek
         C9                             A7 
That no-good low-down dirty rat
         C                                 C/B 
Who used to order his troops
         A7                                     D 
To fire on the women and children
Imagine that imagine that
     G                                       Em7 
And in the spring of '48
     G                                             Em7 
Mao Tse-tung got quite irate
     G                             G/F#                 Em7 
And he kicked that old dictator Chiang
                       D 
Out of the state of China
     G                                                     Em7 
Chiang Kai-shek came down in Formosa
 G                                                         A7 
And they armed the island of Quemoy
                 G 
And the shells were flying across the China Sea
                   Em7                                     C                     C/B       A7       D 
And they turned Formosa into a shoe factory called Taiwan
                       G                                     C9 
And she is different from Cro-Magnon man
             G                             C9 
She's different from Anne Boleyn
               G                 G/F#               Em7 
She is different from the Rosenbergs
           D 
And from the unknown Jew
 G                                               C9                   G 
She is different from the unknown Nicaraguan
 C9                   G                     G/F# 
Half superstar half victim
                 Em7                     C9                 D 
She's a victor star conceptually new
 G                                                         C9 
And she is different from the Dodo
 G                                       C9 
And from the Kankanbono
 G                               G/F#               Em7 
She is different from the Aztec
           D 
And from the Cherokee
     G                             C9 
She's everybody's sister
   G                                             C9 
She's symbolic of our failure
           G                   G/F#             Em7 
She's the one in fifty million
                 C9                           D 
Who can help us to be free
                                             G 
Because she died on TV