Original Song #2 - Home on the Yangtze

The second of three original songs in Kelvoo's Testimonial, Home on the Yangtze is a traditional song of woe for the "outlier humans".

Centuries before humans "discovered" Kelvoo's planet, Terra (Earth) experienced widespread reforms, which were resisted by some humans. These humans, as well as criminals and those deemed as anti-social, were forced or "encouraged" to leave Terra and settle on two other planets. The settlements on those planets were known as the "outlier colonies".

Through the generations, many of the outlier humans mourned their expulsion and vowed to return someday. The outliers developed their own mythology, imagining Terra to be a veritable paradise.

Home on the Yangtze embodies the outliers' longing to return to their idealized vision of Terra.

Home on the Yangtze, great river I treasure,
long may your course twist and turn.
Peace and contentment and wealth beyond measure.
To your broad shores I’ll return.

Boating and fishing and swimming and staying
carefree in warm summer sun.
Pandas and lions and antelope playing.
Blue whales on their downstream run.

Yangtze oh Yangtze, they sent us away
far from your ice floes so grand.
Ripped from your warm embrace,
flung away into space,
off to a sad, distant land.

Home on the Yangtze, the girls are so pretty,
willing to please every day.
Doing as they’re told, whether young or old,
I’ll be back with them someday.
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Basking in sunshine, drinking your waters,
I’ll be the picture of health.
Panning your gold or picking your diamonds,
endlessly living in wealth.

Yangtze oh Yangtze, they sent us away,
far from your ice floes so grand.
Ripped from your warm embrace,
flung away into space,
off to a sad, distant land.

Home on the Yangtze, I’m coming back to thee
brimming with vengeance and wrath.
I’m going to smite those that took you away from me,
striking them down in my path.

Some fine day, we’ll attack; I’ll get my Yangtze back,
with God’s grace vanquish the foe.
Rivers of blood, shall form a great flood,
blending with your glorious flow.

Yes, rivers of blood, shall form a great flood,
blending with your glorious flow.

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