Not sure about you but I'm sometimes fed up with the amount of uploads these songs get, it's seriously too many videos for just a couple of songs. But that's just me complaining, and here I am making one
Anyway, this is a bit of a remake to my first subtitled video, in August 2020 (which is unlisted), but I also made it to test my translation skills
The Spanish version is part of a series of other multilingual versions of a song in the opening credits of the American movie with the same name. Where the setting takes place in real world events in the turn-of-the-20th century Beijing in the midst of the anti-imperial Boxer Rebellion. A total of 8 nations took up arms against the Boxers, called the 8 Nation Alliance:
Great Britain
Germany
Italy
US
Russia
Japan
France
& Austria-Hungary
(Spain wasn't involved)
in order to protect their interests and exploitation of the waning Qing Dynasty and it's citizens. Which was at first neutral but secretly supported the rebellion via Dowager Cixi (without her, the empire could've modernized sooner). The rebellion lasted for 3 years (from 1899-1901) and the Qing Dynasty was forced to sign the Boxer Protocol, afterwards the empire soon collapsed 10 years later
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Fue el año de 1900:
Pekin en sangre se baño.
Y en sus cimientos,
La ciudad se estremecio.
Los Boxers amarillos,
Deseosos de hacer mal,
Filaron sus cuchillos
con insrictos de chacal
La emperatriz de China
En su afan los alento
Y su mano marfirina
La sentencia rubrico:
"¡Matad al extranjero!"
Grito como un clarin
"Porque no los quiero"
55 dias en Pekin.
Los hombres de las legaciones
Unieron, llenos de valor,
Sus corazones
Para defender su honor.
Franceses e Italianos,
Con los Rusos en union,
Y los norteamericanos;
Gran Bretaña y el Japon.
Total once naciones
Empuñaron el fusil
Y lucharon, cual leones,
Contra los catorce mil-
¡Los Boxers fueron derrotados!
Y fue aplastado su motin.
Ya estan callados
Las cañones y el clarin.
Recordad del princioio
Hasta el fin:
¡55 dias en Pekin!
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