Roger Waters – Watching Tv (Guitar)
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Added to UG By Mikhailo ([email protected])
INTRO:
**D **Ddim5 (repeat as necessary) G Em7 We were watching TV, Watching TV G Em7 We were watching TV, Watching TV
Cadd9 A7
Cadd9 A7
Cadd9 C/B A7 D
G Em7 In Tiananmen Square, Lost my baby there G Em7 My yellow rose, In her bloodstained clothes Cadd9 A7 She was a short order pastry chef Cadd9 A7 In a Dim Sum dive on the Yangtze tideway Cadd9 G/B She had shiny hair A7 D She was the daughter of an engineer G Em7 Won't you shed a tear, For my yellow rose G Em7 My yellow rose, In her bloodstained clothes Cadd9 A7 She had perfect breasts, She had high hopes Cadd9 A7 She had almond eyes, She had yellow thighs C C/B A7 D She was a student of philosophy G G/F# Em7 Won't you grieve with me, for my yellow rose, G G/F# Em7 D Shed a tear, For her bloodstained clothes G G/F# Em7 She had shiny hair, She had perfect breasts Cadd9 C/B A7 D She had high hopes, She had almond eyes G G/F# She had yellow thighs Em7 D She was the daughter of an engineer G C So get out your pistols, Get out your stones G C Get out your knives, Cut them to the bone G G/F# Em7 They are the lackeys of the grocer's machine G C They built the dark satanic mills G C That manufacture hell on earth G G/F# Em7 They bought the front row seats on Calvary C D They are irrelevant to me **D **Ddim5 And I grieve 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
G Em7 We were watching TV, Watching TV G Em7 We were watching TV, Watching TV Cadd9 A7 She wore a white bandanna that said 'Freedom now' Cadd9 She thought the Great Wall of China A7 Would come tumbling down G G/F# She was a student Em7 D Her father was an engineer G Em7 Won't you shed a tear, For my yellow rose G Em7 My yellow rose, In her bloodstained clothes Cadd9 A7 Her grandpa fought old Chiang Kai-shek Cadd9 A7 That no-good low-down dirty rat C C/B Who used to order his troops A7 D To fire on the women and children
Imagine that imagine that
G Em7 And in the spring of '48 G Em7 Mao Tse-tung got quite irate G G/F# Em7 And he kicked that old dictator Chiang D Out of the state of China G Em7 Chiang Kai-shek came down in Formosa G A7 And they armed the island of Quemoy G And the shells were flying across the China Sea Em7 C C/B A7 D And they turned Formosa into a shoe factory called Taiwan G Cadd9 And she is different from Cro-Magnon man G Cadd9 She's different from Anne Boleyn G G/F# Em7 She is different from the Rosenbergs D And from the unknown Jew G Cadd9 G She is different from the unknown Nicaraguan Cadd9 G G/F# Half superstar half victim Em7 Cadd9 D She's a victor star conceptually new G Cadd9 And she is different from the Dodo G Cadd9 And from the Kankanbono G G/F# Em7 She is different from the Aztec D And from the Cherokee G Cadd9 She's everybody's sister G Cadd9 She's symbolic of our failure G G/F# Em7 She's the one in fifty million Cadd9 D Who can help us to be free G Because she died on TV