Rocket Man

We were watching T.V.

Watching T.V.

We were Watching T.V.

Watching T.V.

In Tiananmen Square

Lost my baby there

My yellow rose

In her bloodstained clothes (ropa manchada de sangre)

She was a short order pastry chef (una orden corta chef de pastelería)

In a Dim Sum dive on the Yangtze tideway

She had shiny hair

She was the daughter of an engineer

Won't you shed a tear (¿No derramó una lágrima)

For my yellow rose

My yellow rose

In her bloodstained clothes

She had perfect breasts

She had high hopes (grandes esperanzas)

She had almond eyes (ojos almendrados)

She had yellow thighs (muslos)

She was a student of philosophy

Won't you grieve (afligirse) with me

For my yellow rose

Shed a tear (derramar una lagrima)

For her bloodstained clothes

She had shiny hair

She had perfect breasts

She had high hopes

She had almond eyes

She had yellow thighs

She was the daughter of an engineer

So get out your pistols

Get out your stones

Get out your knives

Cut them to the bone

They are the lackeys (los lacallos) of the grocer(almacenero)'s machina (maquina)

They built the dark satanic mills (molinos)

That manufacture hell on earth

They bought the front row seats on Calvary

They are irrelevant to me

But I grieve (afligirse) 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

We were watching T.V.

Watching T.V.

We were watching T.V.

Watching T.V.

She wore a white bandanna (pañuelo) that said

Freedom now

She thought the Great Wall of China

Would come tumbling down (derrumbarse)

She was a student

Her father was an engineer

Won't you shed a tear

For my yellow rose

My yellow rose

In her bloodstained clothes

Her grandpa fought old Chiang Kai-shek (dictador de Taiwán)

That no-good low-down (muy bajo) dirty rat

Who used to order his troops

To fire on the women and children

Imagine that imagine that

And in the spring of '48

Mao Tse-tung got quite irate (aireado)

And he kicked that old dictator Chiang

Out of the state of China

Chiang Kai-shek came down in Formosa

And they armed the island of Quemoy

And the shells were flying across the China Sea

And they turned Formosa into a shoe factory

Called Taiwan

And she is different from Cro-Magnon man

She's different

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