I have been watching '55 days at Peking' which was a 1960s film starring David Niven and Charlton Heston ,who portrayed the British Envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary and US Marine Corps Officer respectively. The plot and story is about the 1900 Chinese 'Boxer' rebellion. In short the Legations of the European Powers , Japan and America, along with Chinese Christian converts were forced to endure a 55 day siege /attack against the boxers , Chinese Nationalists, who were furious over the de facto partition of China via 'spheres of influence among said great powers.
The boxers had the lukewarm to tacit support from the official, but crumbling government, of the Chinese Empire . Needless to say that an eventually an international coalition crushed the Boxers.
I found a song that describes these events :
This got me thinking:
what would happen if the Earth were China , we were the boxers and there was a mixture of alien great powers treating us in a similar fashion?
Would there be a boxer rebellion?
What if the Capital of Earth was Birmingham ?
55 day siege of Birmingham ?
To Parody the above song :
The year was Twenty One Hundred T'is worth remembering
The men who lived through Fifty-five days at Peking
T'was called the Brummie Insurrection
A bloody, Human war Against all civilised nations Of the Diplomatic Corps
The flags of Gorf and Mars
The year was Twenty One Hundred T'is worth remembering
The men who lived through Fifty-five days at Peking
T'was called the Brummie Insurrection
A bloody, Human war Against all civilised nations Of the Diplomatic Corps
The flags of Gorf and Mars
How they fluttered in the breeze
The Leopoldie and the Onconvar And the flag of the Jovians
Then came the sound of bugles The rolling drums of fury
And the streets of Birmingham Were as empty as a tomb
Bom-bom-bom-bom-bom-bom Bom-bom-bom-bom-bom-bom Bom-bom, bom-bom-bom Bom-bom-bom-bom-bom-bom-bom
The President of The Earth Union Gave the signal to begin Let the foreign devils Be driven from Earth. They stormed the Gorf Legation .They attacked with shot and shell
And they came in blood red trousers Screaming "Fuck YOU" as they fell
The drums have long been muffled The bugles cease to ring But through the ages You can hear them echoing
Bom-bom-bom-bom-bom-bom Bom-bom-bom-bom-bom-bom Bom-bom, bom-bom-bom
Fifty-five days at Birmingham
Bom-bom-bom-bom-bom-bom Bom-bom-bom-bom-bom-bom Bom-bom, bom-bom-bom Fifty-five days at Peking Bom-bom-bom-bom-bom-bom Bom-bom-bom.........FADE
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