Bài Ca Hà Nội
Dihavina · Hanoi, North Vietnam
- Artist
- Various Artists
- Title
- Bài Ca Hà Nội
- Release
- Bài Ca Trường Sơn
- Label
- Dihavina
- Format
- LP · Album
- Language
- Vietnamese
- Country
- Hanoi, North Vietnam
- Songwriter
- Vũ Thanh
- Genre
- Vietnamese Music · Nhạc đỏ
- Primary theme
- Vietnamese Patriotic
Annotation — North Vietnamese Songs
English: Today is Sunday, and I come to visit you in the meeting garden / On Quang Trung Road the sunlight pours down far and wide / But I don't mind, for our love has blazed up high / We look at each other, wistful / Not knowing whether our story will end in joy or sorrow / Tomorrow you report to your unit, our paths part — who knows what becomes of our dreams from here If the day we've promised to meet again is so far off, my love / Let time stand still and wait / So our two dreaming hearts can let love colour our rosy lips / Here is a blue letter I give to you / To help you forget the nights at training camp / Lonely and forlorn, burying your head over a cup of tea as you read my letter My love, though the land keeps us apart, please don't forget all our memories / The days when the two of us went to the same school / Our student years, lovely as brocade and flowers / Tomorrow you go to the battlefield, here my love will still be waiting / I pray our country will be at peace and happy / So we can meet and keep our promise Talking and laughing, in this hour of meeting we linger together / So happy, we can't find words enough / The sad hour of parting comes, how reluctantly our…
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Notes
A4.
About the artist
Various Artists
Themes
Vietnamese Perspective · Vietnamese Patriotic · Hanoi · Women Fighters · Air War · Anti-American