Filastrocca Vietnamita

Annotation

Soundtrack to Italian film Grazie zia [Come Play With Me] , by Salvatore Samperi. The song Filastrocca Vietnamita Black is the sky over Indochina / Where the ravens are the ruin / Farmer cultivates wheat / Eye to the sky and a stone in his hand ... / Farmer making war / He eats standing up and sleeps on the ground / And if a grenade / His life is already ruined ... / When the hawk flies lower / Farmer throws a stone at him / This happens in Dien Bien Phu / And the crow goes down ... / Black is the sky over Indochina / Rice and wheat go to ruin / Who is twenty years old, there in the East / He knows nothing about peace ... / Peasant who makes war / Eats standing up and sleeps on the ground / But the cowboy who does the soldier / He finds himself already buried .... / Hawk hawk comes from afar / Sweet face and grenade in hand / Run and run, but as much as you can / Run and run to your countries .... Nero è il cielo sull’Indocina / Dove i corvi son la rovina / Contadino coltiva il grano / Occhio al cielo e una pietra in mano... / Contadino che fa la guerra / Mangia in piedi e dorme in terra / E se scoppia una granata / La sua vita è già rovinata... / Quando il falco vola più basso /…

Annotation by Justin A. Brummer

Annotation — European Songs

Soundtrack to Italian film Grazie zia [Come Play With Me], by Salvatore Samperi. The song Filastrocca Vietnamita

Annotation by Justin A. Brummer

Notes

The 1968 Italian 7" (CAM AMP 40, mono) does not contain 'Filastrocca Vietnamita' - it has only 'Grazie Zia' / 'Guerra E Pace Pollo E Brace'. 'Filastrocca Vietnamita' (3:21, vocals Sergio Endrigo) appears on the full soundtrack: Digitmovies CDDM227, Italy, 2012, CD; 2018 French LP reissue also exists. 7" notes: 'From the original soundtrack movie Grazie Zia'. Choir: Voci Bianche Di R. Cortiglioni; film director Salvatore Samperi; producer G. Giacchi; published by Edizioni Musicali CAM. A 1969 French 7" EP 'Grazie Zia (Merci Léa)' exists. Sung by Sergio Endrigo for the soundtrack of Salvatore Samperi's film Grazie zia (Come Play With Me); the lyric follows a peasant fighting at Dien Bien Phu against the cowboy-soldier.

About the artist

Italian film composer.

Themes

Battle of Dien Bien Phu · First Indo-China War · Grenade · Vietnamese Perspective · Anti-War · Peace · Anti-American

In collections

European Songs · Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs [War Years]