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Across the Manchurian Border

from Eric Blowtorch Plays Himself​!​! by Eric Blowtorch

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written for Manchurian Border, later known as the Blue Tips

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Receive the Mandate of Heaven
Recreate the Great Dynasty
of emperors of T’ang and clang go the klaxons
Murder is in your mind, blood is in your eye
Just like Barbarians, just like the Anglo-Saxons

Hear the sound of ethnic pride
Smell the smell of genocide
Here come the guns, the guns of law and order
Here come the conquerors across the Manchurian Border

Remember the Boxers, you
There goes your Empress Wu
Goodbye to Nestor, Mani, Buddha, Christ, and Zoroaster
Just like in ninth century you will bow to theocracy
and on Wall Street take British tea peacefully

Hear the sound of ethnic pride
Smell the smell of genocide
Here come the guns, the guns of law and order
Here come the conquerors across the Manchurian Border

Here comes opium, here comes trade,
Most Favored Nation status and the Jesus brigade,
Emperor Hung well hung with religion
Hold western greed in new esteem
Carnage carried out in a civil servant’s dream
Manchurians died in a mystical vision

Manchus, you was only a test
of the Japanese Army’s best
You’re a client state; the Soviets were willing to wait
Civil war brought an end to the end, Mao marching ‘round the bend
The Mandate of Heaven fell with Tibet

Hear the sound of ethnic pride
Smell the smell of genocide
Here come the guns, the guns of law and order
Here come the conquerors across the Manchurian Border
Here come the conquerors across the Manchurian Border
Here come the conquerors across the Manchurian Border

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from Eric Blowtorch Plays Himself​!​!, track released January 1, 2013

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Eric Blowtorch Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Singer/guitarist/songwriter Eric Blowtorch sings, plays, and writes reggae, ska, rocksteady, soul, rock 'n' roll, funk, Latin, disco, hip-hop, Anglo-Afropop, and jazz songs with rhythm, melody, passion, and original comic timing. E. B. plays solo, in small combos, and with a band, Eric Blowtorch and the Bodyguards. ... more

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