Boom-boom, boom-boom, boom-boom Boom-boom, boom-boom, boom-boom Boom-boom, boom, boom-boom Boom-boom-boom, boom-boom, boom-boom The year was 1900, 'tis worth remembering The men who lived through 55 days at Peking T'was called the Boxers Insurrection of bloody oriental war Against all nations of the diplomatic core 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 And the rolling drums doom And the streets of Peking were as empty as a tomb Boom-boom, boom-boom, boom-boom Boom-boom, boom-boom, boom-boom Boom-boom, boom, boom-boom Boom-boom-boom, boom-boom, boom-boom The Empress of all China gave the signal to begin And let the foreign devils be driven from Peking They stormed the French Legation They attacked with shot and shell And they came in blood red blouses Screaming shashow as they fell The drums have long been muffled The bugles cease to ring But through the ages, you can hear them echoing Boom-boom, boom-boom, boom-boom Boom-boom, boom-boom, boom-boom Boom-boom, boom, boom-boom 55 days at Peking Boom-boom, boom-boom, boom-boom Boom-boom, boom-boom, boom-boom Boom-boom, boom, boom-boom 55 days at Peking Boom-boom, boom-boom, boom-boom Boom-boom, boom-boom, boom-boom...