Như Có Bác Hồ Trong Ngày Vui Đại Thắng

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

B4. Arranged by Văn Cước, conducted by Cao Việt Bách

About the artist

Various Artists

Themes

Vietnamese Perspective · Vietnamese Patriotic · Ho Chi Minh · Fall of Saigon · Reunification

In collections

North Vietnamese Songs