RED CHINA by RewindBermuda published on 2021-01-13T14:48:24Z RED CHINA http://itunes.apple.com/album/id1552546088?ls=1&app=itunes The killing in 1989 of students in Tiananmen Square by the Chinese Communist Government, shocked the world. Students deserve a lot of credit for standing up for Freedom. In 1989 the rigid rulers responded by killing students. Estimates of the death toll vary from several hundred to several thousand, with thousands more wounded. HONG KONG A series of sit-in street protests, often called the Umbrella Revolution and sometimes used interchangeably with Umbrella Movement, or Occupy Movement, occurred in Hong Kong from 26 September to 15 December 2014. China’s Clampdown on Hong Kong Despite mass protests and China’s promises when it took back Hong Kong from Britain in 1997, Beijing’s new security law is crushing the former colony’s autonomy. In writing the song RED CHINA in 1989, I had the idea of a boy in the USA being a pen pal with a young girl in China. The innocence of 2 kids wanting to meet one day when freedom came. It wasn’t a full on protest song - but more a call to freedom - no more blood in Red China on Tiananmen Square! The song “Red China”was more a play on Red being the colour of blood. For many years, during the cultural revolution, the country was known in the west as Red China. Today the threat of full on force still looms ominously as recently seen in Hong Kong by the hardliners of China. YouTube Video: https://youtu.be/6jZJqlImgXE Video Credits All footage of Tiananmen Square Protests: Arthur Kent, Black Night in June Hong Kong Eye Sequence Music by Kit Johnson www.skyreporter.com Thank you to the Pexels & Pixabay Community TonyB: Church Organ, Bass Victor Chambray: Vocal Kenny Geatros: Guitar Andy Newmark: Drums Ian Marshall: Engineer Alan Silverman: Mastering (NY City) Recorded at Bermuda Sound RED CHINA Music & Lyrics: Tony Brannon Sends me letters stamped Beijing Red China, from many miles across the sea Tells me stories of old men in China, rigid rulers sipping Chinese tea Deng Xiaoping won’t change what’s inside her, she just waits all so patiently Times will change for the people in China, freedoms coming just wait and see No more blood in Red China, on Tiananmen Square Goddess of freedom, shines on right there No more blood in Red China, suns rising and free Students of freedom sail through stormy seas Send her letters stamped New York to China, I want to go and see her someday I’m just waiting for freedom in China, then I’ll go to see her OK? Don’t want no more blood in Red China, Don’t want no more blood blood blood Don’t want no more blood in Red China, Don’t want no more blood blood blood Sends me letters stamped Beijing Red China, from many miles across the sea Send her letters stamped New York to China, I want to go and see her someday CHORUS Genre Rock
