[ti:55 Days At Peking] [ar:The Brothers Four] [al:The Brothers Four Star Box] [02:03.02]mtvzz.com [01:57.25]Album:The Brothers Four Star Box [00:01.04]The Brothers Four-55 Days At Peking [00:00.31] [00:04.90]Theme from the film [00:07.45]"55 Days At Peking" (1963) [01:00.00](Dimitri Tiomkin / Paul Francis Webster) [00:10.72] [00:11.22]Bom-bom-bom... [00:15.27] [00:15.46]The year was Nineteen-Hundred [00:17.71]T'is worth remembering [00:20.25]The men who lived through [00:22.59]Fifty-five days at Peking [00:24.90] [00:25.14]T'was called the Boxer Insurrection [00:27.51]A bloody, Oriental war [00:30.02]Against all nations [00:32.52]Of the Diplomatic Corps [00:34.91] [00:35.27]The flags of France and Britain [00:37.31]How they fluttered in the breeze [00:40.01]The Italian and the Russian [00:42.41]And the flag of the Japanese [00:44.93] [00:45.10]Then came the sound of bugles [00:47.48]The rolling drums of fury [00:49.99]And the streets of Peking [00:52.33]Were as empty as a tomb [00:54.83] [00:55.36]Bom-bom-bom-bom-bom-bom [01:04.70] [01:05.09]The Empress of all China [01:07.52]Gave the signal to begin [01:09.95]Let the foreign devils [01:12.53]Be driven from Peking [01:14.89] [01:15.07]They stormed the French Ligation [01:17.44]They attacked with shot and shell [01:19.93]And they came in blood red blouses [01:22.41]Screaming "Sha Shou" as they fell [01:26.01] [01:26.67]The drums have long been muffled [01:28.95]The bugles cease to ring [01:31.41]But through the ages [01:33.96]You can hear them echoing [01:36.30] [01:36.53]Bom-bom-bom-bom-bom-bom [01:44.03]Fifty-five days at Peking [01:46.40] [01:46.64]Bom-bom-bom-bom-bom-bom [01:51.68]Bom-bom, bom-bom-bom [01:54.10]Fifty-five days at Peking [01:56.39]