China
Joan Baez

In the month of May, in the glory of the day
Came the descendants of a hundred flowers
And their fight it did begin with the aging Mandarin
And they fought with an extraordinary power
Everyone was smiling, their hearts were one
In Tiananmen Square

But it seems that the Spring this year in Beijing
Came just before the Fall
There was no summer at all
In Tiananmen Square
China... China

There's peace in the emerald fields, there's mist upon the lakes
But something is afoot in the People's Hall
The spirit of Chu Ping is alive in young Chai Ling
And the Emperor has his back against the wall
Black sun rising over Tiananmen Square
Over Tiananmen Square

But it seems that the Spring this year in Beijing
Came just before the Fall
There was no summer at all
In Tiananmen Square
China... China

In the month of June, in the darkness of the moon
Went the descendants of a hundred flowers
And time may never tell how many of them fell
Like the petals of a rose in some satanic shower
Everyone was weeping in all of China
And Tiananmen Square

But it seems that the Spring this year in Beijing
Came just before the Fall
There was no summer at all
In Tiananmen Square
China... China

And even the moon on the fourth day of June
Hid her face and did not see
Black sun rising over Tiananmen Square

And Wang Wei Lin, you remember him
All alone he stood before the tanks
A shadow of forgotten ancestors in Tiananmen Square

And my blue-eyed son, you had no one
You could call a hero of your age
You have the rainbow warriors of Tiananmen Square, singing
China Shall Be Free
China Shall Be Free
China Shall Be Free


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Lyrics by Joan Baez

  'Nu Bello Cardillo   (Ain't Gonna Let Nobody) Turn Me Around   (Ain't Gonna Let Nobody) Turn Me Around   'nu Bello Cardillo   A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall   A Heartfelt Line Or Two   A Mi Manera   A Satisfied Mind   A Song For David   A Stranger in My Place   A Swallow Song   A Young Gypsy   Adeste Fidelis [Instrumental]   Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around   All in Green Went My Love Riding   All In Green Went My Love Riding (E. E. Cummings)   All My Trails   All My Trials   All My Trials, Lord   All the Pretty Little Horses   All The Pretty Little Horses (Negro Lullaby)   All The Weary Mothers Of The Earth   Amazing Grace   Amsterdam   And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda   Angeline   Angels We Have Heard on High   Angels We Have Heard on High [Instrumental]   Annabel Lee   Asimbonanga   Astrapsen (The Sun Is Risen)   At\u00c3\u00a9 Amanh\u00c3\u00a3   Até Amanhã   Até Amanhã   Autumn Leaves   Ave Maria (Sung in German)   Away In A Manger   Babe, I'm Gonna Leave You   Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5 -- Aria   Ballad of Sacco & Vanzetti   Ballad of Sacco & Vanzetti   Ballad of Sacco and Vanzetti, Pt. 1   Ballad of Sacco and Vanzetti, Pt. 2   Ballad of Sacco and Vanzetti, Pt. 3   Banks of the Ohio   Barbara Allen   Battle Hymn of the Republic   Be Not Too Hard   Before The Deluge   Best of Friends   Birmingham Sunday   Black Is The Color   Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair   Blessed Are   Blessed Are...   Blowin' in the Wind   Blowing in the wind   Blue Sky   Boots of Spanish Leather   Boulder to Birmingham   Boulder to Birmingham [Electric]   Bring a Torch, Jeannette, Isabella   Bring a Torch, Jeannette, Isabella [Instrumental]   Brothers in Arms   Burgundian Carol   Caleb Meyer   Cambodia   Cantique De Noel (O Holy Night)   Careless Love   Carrickfergus   Carry It On   Caruso   Casida Of The Lament   Catch the Wind   Catch the Wind [#]   Children And All That Jazz   Children of Darkness   Children Of The 80's   Christmas In Washington   Coconuts   Colours   Colours (Live)   Colours [Duet With Donovan]   Comandante Che Guevara   Come All Ye Fair   Come All Ye Fair & Tender Maidens   Come All Ye Fair and Tender Maidens   Copper Kettle   Copper Kettle (Live)   Coventry Carol   Crack In The Mirror   Cry Me a River   Cucurrucuc\u00c3\u00ba Paloma   Cucurrucuc� Paloma   Cucurrucucú Paloma   Cucurrucucú Paloma   Daddy, You Been on My Mind   Danger Waters   Dangling Conversation   Day After Tomorrow   De Colores   Dear Landlord   Deck the Halls   Deck the Halls [Instrumental]   Diamonds & Rust   Diamonds And Rust   Do Right Woman, Do Right Man   Don't Blame My Mother   Don't Cry For Me Argentina   Don'T Think Twice Its Al   Don't Think Twice Its Al (Live)   Don't Think Twice, It's All Right   Donna Donna   Down In Yon Forest   Down In Yon Forrest   Drifter's Escape   Drug Store Truck Drivin Man   East Virginia   Edge Of Glory   El Preso Numero Nueve   El Rossinyol   Eleanor Rigby   Elvis Presley Blues   Engine 143   Esquinazo Del Guerrillero   Famous Blue Raincoat   Fare Thee Well   Fare Thee Well (10,000 Miles)   Farewell Angelina   Farewell, Angelina   February   February (Live)   Fennario   Fennario [#]   Fifteen Months   Finlandia   Fishing   Fishing (Live)   Flora the Lily of the West   For All We Know   For Sasha   Forever Young   Fountain Of Sorrow   Free At Last   Freight Train   Gabriel And Me   Gacela Of The Dark Death   Geordie   Geordie (Live)   Georgie   Ghetto   Glad Bluebird Of Happiness   Go 'Way From My Window   Go 'way From My Window   God Is God   Good Christian Kings [#][Instrumental]   Good King Wenceslas   Good King Wenceslas [Instrumental]   Gospel Ship   Gospel Ship (Live)   Gossamer   Gracias A La Vida   Green, Green Grass Of Home   Guantanamera   Gulf Winds   Hand To Mouth   Happy Birthday, Leonid Brezhnev   Heaven Help Us All   Hello In There   Help Me Make It Through The Night   Henry Martin   Henry Russell's Last Words   Here's to You   Here's To You   Hickory Wind   Hickory Wind (Extended Version)   Honest Lullaby   House Carpenter   House Carpenter (Live)   House Of The Rising Sun   Hush Little Baby   Hush Little Baby [#]   I Am A Poor Wayfaring Stranger (Duet With Mimi Far...   I Am A Wanderer   I Dream of Jeannie/Danny Boy   I Dream Of Jeannie/danny Boy [medley]   I Dream of Jeannie\/Danny Boy [medley]   I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine   I Live One Day At A Time   I Pity The Poor Immigrant   I Saw The Vision Of Armies   I Shall Be Released   I Shall Be Released (Extended Version)   I Still Miss Someone   I Wonder As I Wander   I'm With You   If I Knew   If I Were a Carpenter   If I Wrote You   If I Wrote You (Live)   If You Were A Carpenter   Ilego Con Tres Heridas   Imagine   In Geurnica   In Guernica   In My Time of Need   In The Morning Light   In the Pines   In The Quiet Morning   In the Quiet Morning (For Janis Joplin)   Isaac & Abraham   It Ain't Me Babe   It Ain't Me Babe   It's All Over Now, Baby Blue   It's All Over Now, Baby Blue   Jack-A-Roe   Jackaroe   Jackaroe (Live)   James & The Gang   Jericho Road   Jerusalem   Jesse   Joe Hill   John Riley   John Riley [*]   Juan De La Cruz   Just A Closer Walk With Thee   Kingdom Of Childhood   Kitty   Kumbaya   Kumbaya (Live)   La Colombe -- The Dove   La Llorona   La Llorona (The Weeping Woman)   Lady Di And I   Lady Gay   Lady Mary   Las Madres Cansadas   Lass From The Low Country   Last, Lonely and Wretched   Last, Lonely, And Wretched   Legend Of A Girl Child Linda (Previously Unrelease...   Legend Of The Girl Child Linda   Less Than The Song   Less Than the Song [*]   Let It Be   Let Your Love Flow   Light A Light   Lily   Lily Of The West   Lily, Rosemary And The Jack Of Hearts   Lincoln Freed Me Today (The Slave)   Little Drummer Boy   Little Moses   Llego Con Tres Heridas   Llego Con Tres Heridas (I Come With Three Wounds)   Lonesome Road   Long Bed From Kenya (Live)   Long Black Veil   Long Black Veil [#]   Longest Train I Ever Saw   Lost, Lonely And Wretched   Love Is A Four Letter Word   Love Is a Four-Letter Word   Love Is Just a Four Letter Word   Love Is Just a Four-Letter Word   Love Minus Zero / No Limit   Love Minus Zero/No Limit   Love Minus Zero\/No Limit   Love Song For A Stranger   Love Song To A Stranger   Love Song To A Stranger, Part Ii   Lowlands   Luba, The Baroness   Lucifer's Eyes   Man Smart, Woman Smarter   Manhã de Carnaval   Manha De Carnaval (Live)   Manha De Carnaval/te Ador   Manha de Carnaval\/Te Ador   Many A Mile To Freedom   Maria Dolores   Marie Flore   Marriott, U.S.A.   Mary   Mary Call   Mary Hamilton   Mary Hamilton [Stereo][Multimedia Track]   Mary's Wandering   Matty Groves   Me and Bobby McGee   Mercy Bound   Michael   Michael Row Your Boat Ahore   Milanese Waltz/ Marie Flore   Milanese Waltz/Marie Flore   Milanese Waltz\/ Marie Flore   Minister Of War   Minister Of War (Translated From The Chinese By Ar...   Miracles   MLK   Money For Floods   Money For Floods (Live)   Moscow On Hollywood Boulevard   Motherland   My Home's Across the Blue Ridge Mountains   My Lord What A Morning   Myths   Myths   Natalia   Never Dreamed You'd Leave in Summer   Night They Drove Old Dixie Down   No Expectations   No Man Is An Island   No Man Is An Island (John Donne)   No Mermaid   No Mermaid (Live)   No Nos Moveran   No Woman No Cry   North   North Country Blues   O Come, O Come Emmanuel   O Come, O Come, Emmanuel   O What A Beautiful City   Oh Brother   Oh Happy Day   Oh Happy Day [*]   Oh Happy Day [Electric]   Oh, Brother!   Oh, Had I A Golden Thread   Oh, Happy Day   Old Blue   Old Gospel Ship   Old Welsh Song   Old Welsh Song (Henry Treece)   Once I Had A Sweetheart   Once I Had A Sweetheart (Live)   Once I Knew A Pretty Girl   One Day At A Time   One Tin Soldier   One Too Many Mornings   Only Heaven Knows   Only Heaven Knows (Ah, The Sad Wind Blows)   Outside The Nashville City Limits   Outside The Nashville City Limits   Pack Up Your Sorrows   Pajarillo Barranqueno   Pal Of Mine   Paso Rio   Paso Rio (I Pass a River)   Pauvre Ruteboeuf   Plaisir d'Amour   Plane Wreck At Los Gatos (Deportee)   Play Me Backwards   Please Come To Boston   Poor Wayfaring Stranger   Portland Town   Pretty Boy Floyd   Prison Trilogy   Prison Trilogy (Billy Rose)   Put Your Hand In The Hand   Queen Of Hearts   Queen Of Hearts (Live)   Railroad Bill   Railroad Boy   Rainbow Road   Rake And Rambling Boy   Ranger's Command   Ranger's Command   Recently   Rejoice in the Sun   Requiem   Restless Farewell   Reunion Hill   Rexroth's Daughter   Rexroth's Daughter   Rider, Pass By   Ring Them Bells   Rock Salt and Nails   Rock, Salt And Nails   Rock, Salt and Nails [#]   Rose Of Sharon   Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands   Sad-Eyed Lady Of The Low Lands   Sad-Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands   Sag' Mir Wo Die Blumen Sind   Sag' Mir Wo Die Blumen Sind   Sagt Mir Wo Die Blumen Sind   Saigon Bride   Sail Away Ladies   Sailing   San Francisco Mabel Joy   San Francisco Mabel Joy   Satisfied Mind   Scarlet Ribbons   Scarlet Tide   Seabirds   Seven Bridges Road   Seven Curses   Sgt. Pepper's Band   Shes A Trouble Maker   Silent Night   Silent Running   Silkie   Silver Dagger   Simple Twist Of Fate   Since You've Asked   Sing Low Sweet Chariot   Sing Me Back Home   So We'll Go No More a-Roving   So We'll Go No More A-Roving   Song of Bangladesh   Speaking Of Dreams   Steal Across The Border   Stephanie's Room   Stephanie's Room   Stewball   Still waters ar Night   Still Waters At Night   Stones In The Road   Stones in the Road [*/#][#]   Strange Rivers   Streets of Laredo   Suzanne   Suzanne [Acoustic]   Swallow Song   Sweet Sir Galahad   Sweeter For Me   Swing Low Sweet Chariot   Swing Low, Sweet Chariot   Swing Low, Swing Chariot   Take Me Back To The Sweet Sunny South   Te ador   Te Recuerdo Amanda   Te Recuerdo Amanda (I Remember Amanda)   Tears In My Eyes   Tears Of Rage   The 33Rd Of August   The Altar Boy And The Thief   The Ballad of Sacco & Vanzetti   The Ballad of Sacco & Vanzetti, Pt. 1   The Ballad of Sacco and Vanzetti   The Ballad Of Sacco And Vanzetti, Part One   The Ballad Of Sacco And Vanzetti, Part Three   The Ballad Of Sacco And Vanzetti, Part Two   The Bells Of Gethsemani   The Brand New Tennessee Wal   The Brand New Tennessee Waltz   The Brand New Tennessee Waltz   The Carol Of The Birds   The Cherry Tree Carol   The Crimes Of Cain   The Dangling Conversation   The Death Of Queen Jane (Child No. 170)   The Dream Song   The First Noël [#]   The First Noel   The Greenwood Side   The Hitchhikers' Song   The Hitchhikers' Song   The Lady Came From Baltimore   The Land of a Thousand Dances   The Last Thing On My Mind   The Last Thing On My Mind (Extended Version)   The Lily of the West   The Little Drummer Boy   The Lower Road   The Mockingbird Song (Hush Little Baby)   The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress   The Night They Drove Old Dixie   The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down   The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down [Live]   The Partisan   The Railroad Boy   The Restless Farewell   The Riddle Song (feat. Pete Seeger)   The Riddle Song (Very Early Joan)   The River In The Pines   The Sad Wind Blows   The Salt Of The Earth   The Song At The End Of The Movie   The Swallow Song   The Sweet Sunny South   The Tramp on the Street   The Trees They Do Grow High   The Unquiet Grave   The Unquiet Grave (Child No. 78)   The Walls Of Redwind   The Walls of Redwing   The Water Is Wide   The Water Is Wide [*/#][#]   The Water Is Wide [#]   The Wild Mountain Thyme   There But For Fortune   Three Fishers   Three Horses   Through Your Hands   Time Is Passing Us By   Time Rag   To Bobby   To Ramona (Live)   Tomorrow Is A Long Time   Tramp On The Street   Trees They Do Grow High   Trees They Grow High   Tumbleweed   Turquoise   Twelve Gates To The City   Txoria Txori   Virgin Mary   Virgin Mary [#]   Wagoner's Lad   Wagoner's Lad   Walkin' Down the Line   Walkin' Down The Line   Warriors Of The Sun   Water Is Wide   Wayfaring Stranger   We Shall Overcome   We Three Kings [#][Instrumental]   Weary Mothers   Welcome Me   Well May the World Go   What Child Is This   What Have They Done To The Rain?   What You Gonna Call Your Pretty Little Baby   When Time Is Stolen   When You Hear Them Cuckoos Hollerin'   When You Hear Them Cuckoos Hollerin'   Where Are You Now My Son   Where Have All The Flower   Where Have All The Flowers Gone   Where's My Apple Pie?   Who Do You Think I Am   Wild Mountain Thyme   Wild Mountain Thyme [#]   Wildwood Flowder   Wildwood Flower   Will The Circle Be Unbroken   Willie Moore   Winds Of The Old Days   Wings   Wings Of Fantasy   With God On Our Side   With God On Our Side (Live)   Yellow Coat   You Ain't Goin' Nowhere   You Ain't Goin' Nowhere   You're Aging Well

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