Kambodja är befriat
1975 · Befria BS-7 · Sweden
- Artist
- FNL-Grupperna
- Title
- Kambodja är befriat
- Release
- Vietnam / Kambodja Befriade!
- Year
- 1975
- Label
- Befria # BS-7
- Format
- 7" · EP
- Language
- Swedish
- Country
- Sweden
- Songwriter
- Sven Hedman
- Genre
- Nordic Music · Progressive Folk
- Primary theme
- Peace, Protest & Anti-War
Annotation
Swedish. Anti-war. Post-war.1 Sources1lars-daniel.se: Fnl vkb↩
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Lyrics
English: "When the last plane lift and it's empty in the hangars / There are many who look longingly at the sky / Now they have fled - all pimps customers / Themselves had they not comply with... / Now, no guards near the usurers stores / Now you're no longer upper-class villas / The American Eagle has fled on broken wings / Now can no longer hide himself in their shadow / Now is all protégés shivering and naked / Waiting for the inevitable must come / The merchant sees them through the window of the shop / The songs and alarms penetrates through the box / And somehow their faces familiar / But never has he seen this gleam in their eyes / Well, it is the same people whose livelihood he has stolen / Who left their places in the Red Cross Risko... / Cambodia is liberated and the people have taken power / Liberation Army march into Phnom Penh"
Notes
Befria Södern BS 7 (DFFG 1975), 45 rpm stereo, red labels; picture sleeve "Vietnam Kambodja Befriade!" (yellow, with photographs of Vietnamese children) and a four-page lyric-and-chord insert ("Texter, ackord"). The sleeve states that "Vietnam är befriat" and "Kambodja är befriat" were made and recorded in May 1975 by students of the music-teacher college SÄMUS in Göteborg, and that "Balladen om Rune Henry Johansson" was recorded at the Vietnam victory celebration in Stockholm on 3 May 1975, where 4,000 friends of Vietnam cheered as Fria Proteatern sang the ballad, written the day after Vietnam's liberation. Issued 1975 by De Förenade FNL-grupperna, Fack, 104 32 Stockholm 19. Back sleeve carries the poem "Leve segern!" by Sven Hedman (May 1975) on the fall of Phnom Penh and Saigon. [From the record sleeve and labels] Insert: "Sven Hedman, maj -75", song in three parts (A/B/C) with…
About the artist
Song groups of De Förenade FNL-grupperna (DFFG / United NLF Groups), the Swedish solidarity movement with the Vietnamese NLF; active late 1960s to mid 1970s, releasing albums on the movement's own Befria Södern label. Based in Sweden (groups in Stockholm, Gothenburg and Uppsala). [Source: Wikipedia / Discogs]
Themes
From the release Vietnam / Kambodja Befriade!
In collections
European Songs · Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs [War Years]