Đường Cày Đảm Đang
1969 · Dihavina 6901 · Hanoi, North Vietnam
- Artist
- Thanh Huyền
- Title
- Đường Cày Đảm Đang
- Release
- Tiếng Hát Việt Nam
- Year
- 1969
- Label
- Dihavina # 6901
- Format
- 10" · Album
- Language
- Vietnamese
- Country
- Hanoi, North Vietnam
- Songwriter
- An Chung
- Genre
- Vietnamese Music · Nhạc đỏ
- Primary theme
- Vietnamese Patriotic
Lyrics
English: Since you left, I've become skilled at the field work / Transplanting rice along a string, the plants in straight rows / Digging canals to bring water round the village / Singing the song of the 'Three Responsibilities' (ư) In our village, girls now plough and harrow in place of the boys / Every raised furrow, low-lying field and outer paddy / Our skilful ploughing is famous across the western hamlet / In place of the boys, the girls now compete in skill Our fields are criss-crossed with canals and ditches / Plenty of water, plenty of manure and ash, tended morning and evening / Bumper harvests in both seasons, the ears full and plump All of us for our homeland, Uncle's words still ringing / You stand ready to kill the enemy and save the nation, I take care of everything here / However hard it is, our song still rings out At first I wasn't used to it, my furrows weren't straight / But today, across this field / The turned soil lies in perfectly straight furrows / The deep earth turned evenly by my hand (i) At first light the field banks bustle with buffaloes / The buffalo and I don't mind wind or dew / Harrow it well, then sow the rows evenly / Buffalo, tomorrow there'll be plenty of rice and potatoes To my loved one I send this song of the home front / Steeped in the warm scent of rice that I have planted / I'm managing everything — set your mind at rest While the invaders remain, front line and home front / All of us join hearts and strive today / When the enemy…
About the artist
Vietnamese singer, born Trương Thị Thanh Huyền on 10 October 1942 in Hanoi; known for folk and revolutionary songs such as "Câu hò bên bờ Hiền Lương", "Đường cày đảm đang" and "Lời ca dâng Bác", and the first woman singer named People's Artist (1984). [Source: Wikipedia (Vietnamese)]
Themes
From the release Tiếng Hát Việt Nam