55 days at Birmingham

Hi All,


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

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