Ca Ngợi Hồ Chủ Tịch = President Ho Chi Minh's Praise
Dihavina CKS 0003 · Hanoi, Vietnam
- Artist
- Trung Kiên
- Title
- Ca Ngợi Hồ Chủ Tịch = President Ho Chi Minh's Praise
- Release
- Hồ Chí Minh Đẹp Nhất Tên Người = Ho Chi Minh Your Name Is The Finest
- Label
- Dihavina # CKS 0003
- Format
- LP · Album
- Language
- Vietnamese
- Country
- Hanoi, Vietnam
- Songwriter
- Văn Cao
- 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
A3. Trung Kiên recorded both songs of this title (Văn Cao's and Lưu Hữu Phước's); the lyric used is Văn Cao's — not confirmed by ear
Themes
Vietnamese Perspective · Vietnamese Patriotic · Ho Chi Minh · Anti-Imperialism · Reunification