| G | Em7 | |
| We were watching T | V, Watching T | V |
| G | Em7 | |
| We were watching T | V, Watching T | V |
| Cadd9 | C/B | A7 | D |
| G | Em7 | |
| In Tiananmen Squa | re, Lost my baby t | here |
| G | Em7 | |
| My yellow r | ose, In her bloodstained cl | othes |
| Cadd9 | A7 | |
| She was a | short order p | astry chef |
| Cadd9 | A7 | |
| In a | Dim Sum dive on the Yangt | ze tideway |
| Cadd9 | 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 r | ose |
| G | Em7 | |
| My yellow ro | se, In her bloodstained | clothes |
| Cadd9 | A7 | |
| She had | perfect breasts, She had | high hopes |
| Cadd9 | A7 | |
| She had | almond eyes, She had | yellow thighs |
| C | C/B | A7 | D | |
| She was a | student | of ph | ilosophy |
| G | G/F# | Em7 | |
| Won't you grieve with | me, | for my y | ellow rose, |
| G | G/F# | Em7 | D | |
| Shed a tear, | For her bloodstained cl | othes |
| G | G/F# | Em7 | |
| She had | shiny hai | r, She had | perfect breasts |
| Cadd9 | C/B | A7 | D | |
| She had | high hopes, | She had | almond eyes |
| G | G/F# | |
| She had | yellow thigh | s |
| Em7 | D | |
| She was the | daughter of an engineer |
| G | C | |
| So get out your | pistols, Get out your stone | s |
| G | C | |
| Get out your kn | ives, Cut them to the bo | ne |
| G | G/F# | Em7 | |
| They are the | lackeys o | f the groce | r's machine |
| G | C | |
| They built the | dark satanic mills |
| G | C | |
| That manu | facture hell on earth |
| G | G/F# | Em7 | |
| They bought the | front row | seats on Ca | lvary |
| C | D | |
| They are | irrelevant to me |
| **D **Ddim5 |
| 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 |
| G | Em7 | |
| We were watching T | V, Watching T | V |
| G | Em7 | |
| We were watching T | V, Watching T | V |
| Cadd9 | A7 | |
| She wore a | white bandanna that said 'F | reedom now' |
| Cadd9 | |
| She thought the | Great Wall of China |
| A7 | |
| Would co | me tumbling down |
| G | G/F# | |
| She was a studen | t |
| Em7 | D | |
| Her f | ather was an engin | eer |
| G | Em7 | |
| Won't you shed a t | ear, For my yellow r | ose |
| G | Em7 | |
| My yellow ro | se, In her bloodstained cl | othes |
| Cadd9 | A7 | |
| Her | grandpa fought old C | hiang Kai-shek |
| Cadd9 | A7 | |
| That | no-good low-down di | rty rat |
| C | C/B | |
| Who | used to order his | troops |
| A7 | D | |
| To f | ire on the women and | children |
| Imagine that imagine that |
| G | Em7 | |
| An | d in the spring of '4 | 8 |
| G | Em7 | |
| Ma | o Tse-tung got quite ira | te |
| G | G/F# | Em7 | |
| An | d he kicked that | old dictator | Chiang |
| D | |
| Out of the | state of China |
| G | Em7 | |
| Ch | iang Kai-shek came down in F | ormosa |
| G | A7 | |
| And they armed the island of Q | uemoy |
| 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 | Taiwa | n |
| G | Cadd9 | |
| And she is | different from Cro-M | agnon man |
| G | Cadd9 | |
| She's | different from A | nne Boleyn |
| G | G/F# | Em7 | |
| She is | different | from the Ros | enbergs |
| D | |
| And f | rom the unknown Jew |
| G | Cadd9 | G | |
| She is different from the | unknown Nicara | guan |
| Cadd9 | G | G/F# | |
| Half superstar | half victim |
| Em7 | Cadd9 | D | |
| She's a | victor star co | nceptually new |
| G | Cadd9 | |
| And she is different from the | Dodo |
| G | Cadd9 | |
| And from the Kankanbo | no |
| G | G/F# | Em7 | |
| She is different | from the Azt | ec |
| D | |
| And f | rom the Cherokee |
| G | Cadd9 | |
| Sh | e's everybody's | sister |
| G | Cadd9 | |
| S | he's symbolic of our fai | lure |
| G | G/F# | Em7 | |
| She's | the one in | fifty mill | ion |
| Cadd9 | D | |
| Who can | help us to be free |
| G | |
| Because she died on TV |