Pieseň o Vietname

Annotation

Eva Kostolányiová, a Slovak singer, dancer, actor, born on 02 November 1942 in Trnava Region, "Slovak Republic" (1939 - 1945) (then occupied by Nazi Germany, thus a satellite state), and died on 03 October 1975, in Bratislava, former Czechoslovakia - both these location are now in the contemporary country Slovakia.123. She started her career at v Slovenskom ľudovom umeleckom kolektíve–SĽUKu (The Slovak Folk Art Collective or SĽUK).4 This is a split release single, with three different artists. Kostolányiová recorded two of the songs, both of which dealt with the Vietnam War. The song "Pieseň o Vietname" (Opus # 90 33 0053) looked at the personal impact of the war: "voice of bombs... children dream of peace", while other "talk about the law to whom belongs Vietnam". The other song "Uspávanka matky z My Lai" focused on the My Lai Massacre, the mass murder of between 300-500 civilians in the South Vietnamese villages of My Lai and Song My by US forces on 16 March 1968, led by platoon leader, Second Lieutenant William Calley.. This took an interesting approach, with the narrator comparing their situation to those in My Lai: "my baby is already sleeping... My Lai are silent... hard to forget tonight".Sources1Wikipedia: Slovenská republika (1939 – 1945)↩2Wikipedia: Česko-Slovensko↩3Wikipedia: Slovensko↩4Wikipedia: Eva Kostolányiová↩

Annotation by Justin A. Brummer

Annotation — European Songs

Eva Kostolányiová, a Slovak singer, dancer, actor, born on 02 November 1942 in Trnava Region, "Slovak Republic" (1939 - 1945) (then occupied by Nazi Germany, thus a satellite state), and died on 03 October 1975, in Bratislava, former Czechoslovakia - both these location are now in the contemporary country Slovakia.123 She started her career at v Slovenskom ľudovom umeleckom kolektíve–SĽUKu (The Slovak Folk Art Collective or SĽUK).4 This is a split release single, with three different artists. Kostolányiová recorded two of the songs, both of which dealt with the Vietnam War. The song "Pieseň o Vietname" (Opus # 90 33 0053) looked at the personal impact of the war: "voice of bombs... children dream of peace", while other "talk about the law to whom belongs Vietnam". The other song "Uspávanka matky z My Lai" focused on the My Lai Massacre, the mass murder of between 300-500 civilians in the South Vietnamese villages of My Lai and Song My by US forces on 16 March 1968, led by platoon leader, Second Lieutenant William Calley. This took an interesting approach, with the narrator comparing their situation to those in My Lai: "my baby is already sleeping... My Lai are silent... hard to forget tonight". Sources1Wikipedia: Slovenská republika (1939 – 1945)↩2Wikipedia: Česko-Slovensko↩3Wikipedia: Slovensko↩4Wikipedia: Eva Kostolányiová↩

Annotation by Justin A. Brummer

Annotation — My Lai & Lt. William Calley Songs

Eva Kostolányiová, a Slovak singer, dancer, actor, born on 02 November 1942 in Trnava Region, "Slovak Republic" (1939 - 1945) (then occupied by Nazi Germany, thus a satellite state), and died on 03 October 1975, in Bratislava, former Czechoslovakia - both these location are now in the contemporary country Slovakia.123 She started her career at v Slovenskom ľudovom umeleckom kolektíve–SĽUKu (The Slovak Folk Art Collective or SĽUK).4 This is a split release single, with three different artists. Kostolányiová recorded two of the songs, both of which dealt with the Vietnam War. The song "Pieseň o Vietname" (Opus # 90 33 0053) looked at the personal impact of the war: "voice of bombs... children dream of peace", while other "talk about the law to whom belongs Vietnam". The other song "Uspávanka matky z My Lai" focused on the My Lai Massacre. This took an interesting approach, with the narrator comparing their situation to those in My Lai: "my baby is already sleeping... My Lai are silent... hard to forget tonight".Sources1Wikipedia: Slovenská republika (1939 – 1945)↩2Wikipedia: Česko-Slovensko↩3Wikipedia: Slovensko↩4Wikipedia: Eva Kostolányiová↩

Annotation by Justin A. Brummer

Lyrics

English: I sing a painful song / Their land is sprinkled with blood / Before the sun rises / Lava burns in the heart / The children dream of peace / She waits for the dawn / A mother so worn down by weariness / Reads only those wrinkles / A greeting full of love / Vietnam knows what help means / Hearts will not be convinced / By the voice of bombs / Of lying words / Long tried is the small land / Until the day soon steps in / The voice of bombs will lower its eyes / Let us all say: "I want to help" / The land breathes with that echo / Which will strengthen every voice of ours / Then bold faces / Speak of the right / Of who Vietnam belongs to, the beautiful land / Hearts will not be convinced by the voice of bombs, of lying words / Long tried is the small land / When the day soon steps in / The voice of bombs will lower its eyes / Let us all say: "I want to help" / I sing a painful song / Their land is sprinkled with blood / Before the sun rises / Lava burns in the heart / The children dream of peace __________ Slovak: Spievam pieseň boľavú / krvou skropená je tá ich zem / skôr kým slnko vstáva / v srdci horí láva / o mieri sa deťom sníva sen / Čaká, kým sa rozvidní / matka únavou tak strápená / číta len tie vrásky / pozdrav plný lásky / Vietnam vie, čo pomoc znamená / Srdcia nepresvedčí / hlas bômb / lživých rečí / dlho skúšaná je malá zem / kým deň skoro vkročí / hlas bômb sklopí oči / povedzme si všetci: „Pomáhať ja chcem“ / Dýcha kraj tou ozvenou / ktorá zosilí každý náš…

About the artist

born on 02 November 1942 in Trnava Region, "Slovak Republic" (1939 - 1945) (then occupied by Nazi Germany, thus a satellite state), and died on 03 October 1975, in Bratislava, former Czechoslovakia - both these location are now in the contemporary country Slovakia.

Themes

Anti-War

In collections

European Songs · My Lai & Lt. William Calley Songs · Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs [War Years]