China

Album: Speaking of Dreams (1989)
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  • In the month of May, in the glory of the day
    Came the descendants of a hundred flowers
    And their fight it did begin
    With the aging Mandarin
    And they fought with an extraordinary power
    Everyone was smiling, their hearts were one
    In Tiananmen Square

    But it seems that the Spring
    This year in Beijing
    Came just before the Fall
    There was no summer at all
    In Tiananmen Square china china
    There's peace in the emerald fields
    There's mist upon the lakes
    But something is afoot in the People's Hall
    The spirit of Chu Ping is
    Alive in young Chai Ling
    And the Emperor has his back against the wall
    Black sun rising over Tiananmen Square
    Over Tiananmen Square

    But it seems that the Spring
    This year in Beijing
    Came just before the Fall
    There was no summer at all
    In Tiananmen Square china china

    In the month of June
    In the darkness of the moon
    Went the descendants of a hundred flowers
    And time may never tell how many of them fell
    Like the petals of a rose
    In some satanic shower
    Everyone was weeping in all of China
    And Tiananmen Square

    But it seems that the Spring
    This year in Beijing
    Came just before the Fall
    There was no summer at all
    In Tiananmen Square china china
    And even the moon on the fourth day of June
    Hid her face and did not see
    Black sun rising over Tiananmen Square

    And Wang Wei Lin, you remember him
    All alone he stood before the tanks
    A shadow of forgotten ancestors
    In Tiananmen Square

    And my blue-eyed son, you had no one
    You could call a hero of your age
    You have the rainbow warriors
    Of Tiananmen Square, singing
    China Shall Be Free china Shall Be Free
    China Shall Be Free Writer/s: Joan Baez
    Publisher: GABRIEL EARL MUSIC
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