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"55 Days at Peking" is a song about the Boxer Rebellion that happened in China 1899-1901, more specifically about the Siege of the International Legations and the Relief of Peking.

Lyrics:
The year was nineteen-hundred
T’is worth remembering
The men who lived through
Fifty-five days at Peking
T’was called the Boxer Insurrection
a bloody oriental war
Against all nations
of the Diplomatic Corps
The flags of France and Britain
how they fluttered in the breeze
The Italian and the Russian
and the Flag of the Japanese
Then came the sound of bugles (the sound of bugles)
the rolling drums of fury (drums of fury)
and the streets of Peking
were as empty as a tomb

The Empress of all China
gave the signal to begin:
“Let the Foreign devils
be driven from Peking!”
They stormed the French Legation
they attacked with shoot and shell
and they came in blood red blouses
screaming “Sha Shou” as they fell
The drums have long been muffled
the bugles cease to ring
but through the ages
you can hear them echoing

FIFTY-FIVE DAYS AT PEKING

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