Mùa sầu riêng (Durian Season)
1969 · Sóng Nhạc S.N. 1044/2212 · Saigon, South Vietnam
- Artist
- Giao Linh
- Title
- Mùa sầu riêng (Durian Season)
- Release
- Mùa sầu riêng
- Year
- 1969
- Label
- Sóng Nhạc # S.N. 1044/2212
- Format
- 7" · EP
- Language
- Vietnamese
- Country
- Saigon, South Vietnam
- Songwriter
- Hoàng Trang
- Genre
- Vietnamese Music · Bolero Việt Nam
- Primary theme
- Home Front Perspective / Soldier's Perspective
Lyrics
English: Tonight the dew is cold / Two of us sharing a blanket, passing a cigarette back and forth / Understand me, friend — though we are soldiers / Now and then we too can dream / Nights lying here yearning for an innocent love now past / My heart is more sad than glad / So on this weekend's leave I'll go and see her It's been four years now / The two of us loved each other because we shared the same ideals / Let me tell you, it was durian season then too / I laid down my books and pen and left the precious years of youth / Left my love behind on a starless night / And my soul thought it only a dream / So the season of parting is also durian season — a season of private sorrow Yesterday I got a letter from my love / She wrote to ask me / Do you hear the cicadas weeping in the summer? / Do you remember us walking side by side in the old durian orchard? Oh my love, the durians are ripe / And longing too has ripened / But the war has not yet given the young man back / On lonely nights, longing for you, is it a dream or a reverie? Once we've fallen in love / With the two of us apart, how could we not be troubled? / But the homeland is still shrouded in smoke and fire / So though I am far from my love in her precious youth / This young man's heart is pledged to the mountains and rivers / My heart's dream is to be a soldier / So the season of parting is also durian season — a season of private sorrow ____ Vietnamese: Đêm nay sương lạnh / Hai đứa chung chăn chuyền nhau chung điếu…
About the artist
Vietnamese singer, born Đỗ Thị Sinh on 8 September 1949 in Saigon; a nhạc vàng singer who made her name in Saigon in the late 1960s, called by the press "the queen of sorrow"; from 1987 she sang duets with Tuấn Vũ. [Source: Wikipedia (Vietnamese)]
Themes
Vietnamese Perspective · South Vietnamese · Soldier's Perspective · Lost Love
From the release Mùa sầu riêng