1. Vietnamesischer Flüchtlings-Chor Europas
Reich mir die Hand
1979 · Columbia 1 C 006-45 900 · Germany: West [FRG]
- Artist
- 1. Vietnamesischer Flüchtlings-Chor Europas
- Title
- Reich mir die Hand
- Release
- Reich mir die hand / Meine heimat ist Vietnam
- Year
- 1979
- Label
- Columbia # 1 C 006-45 900
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- German
- Country
- Germany: West [FRG]
- Songwriter
- Lothar Neuse, Peter Beil
- Genre
- Schlager · Vocal Pop
- Primary theme
- Post-War
Annotation — Vietnamese Boat People / Refugee Crisis
Reich mir die hand (Vietnamesischer Flüchtlings-Chor Europas) (Vietnamese Refugee Choir Europe) Meine heimat ist Vietnam (Vietnamesischer Flüchtlings-Chor Europas) German, post-war 70s. Vietnamese children refugees from the war. Now living in Germany. Reich mir die hand (Give Me Your Hand): I'm a little Vietnamese girl / A child in a foreign country / It is now your home here / I wish me a lot of nice friends / My little heart that I give you / We want to laugh and forget / Give me your hand say yes to me / Give me your hand to a new life / Give me your hand say yes to me / They maintain fraternity lab us / Fraternity there as here and there and here / I'm a little Vietnamese girl / A child in a foreign country / We do not speak the same language / But l know we are related / Because you know I hope we ask / Full war tangle in a world / A vote with me, say yes to life / Give me your hand I reaching them to you" Ich bin eine kleine vietnamesin / Ein kind in einem fremden land / Es heibt hier ist jetzt dein zuhause / Ich wunsch mir viele nette freunde / Mein kleines herz das schenk ich dir / Wir wollen lachen und vergessen / Reich mir die hand sag ja zu mir / Reich mir die hand zu…
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Notes
A side; music Lothar Neuse / Peter Beil, text Lothar Neuse, arranged Wolfgang Dyhr; 3:48; ℗ 1979 Compact Musikverlag GmbH; EMI Electrola Columbia 1 C 006-45 900, LC 0162, Cologne; sleeve printed by Druckhaus Maack, Lüdenscheid. The sleeve shows the choir — young Vietnamese refugees in yellow áo dài with two guitarists — under a row of European flags, and prints the full German lyric: a small Vietnamese girl, "a child in a foreign land", asking for friends and a hand "to a new life" in a world full of the confusion of war. [From the record sleeve and labels]
About the artist
Choir of Vietnamese child refugees from the war living in Germany, credited as the 1st Vietnamese Refugee Choir of Europe.
Themes
Refugees · Vietnamese Children · Child · Vietnamese Perspective