Kim Oanh & The Voice Of Vietnam Radio Orchestra
Nổi Trống Lên Rừng Núi Ơi!
1969 · Dihavina 6901 · Hanoi, North Vietnam
- Artist
- Kim Oanh & The Voice Of Vietnam Radio Orchestra
- Title
- Nổi Trống Lên Rừng Núi Ơi!
- Release
- Tiếng Hát Việt Nam
- Year
- 1969
- Label
- Dihavina # 6901
- Format
- 10" · Album
- Language
- Vietnamese
- Country
- Hanoi, North Vietnam
- Songwriter
- Hoàng Vân
- Genre
- Vietnamese Music · Nhạc đỏ
- Primary theme
- Vietnamese Patriotic
Lyrics
English: Tomorrow you turn twenty / A highland girl, lovely beyond words / Rifle on your shoulder, you harrow the fields / You're a co-op member, and you're a militiawoman too Do you live by the Red River, the Lô or the Chảy? / Along the highway or at the foot of some distant mountain? / Among the first feats of arms defending our Việt Bắc homeland / Are yours, in the indigo-clad militia Listen, the drum is beating — you go out to tend the rice / The drum urges intensive farming, every inch of soil an inch of gold / How many times have you read letters from the Fatherland's front line / Warm with the twinned bond between Việt Bắc and the Central Highlands / Night after night you lie awake, hearing the water-driven pestle pounding late / As if counting each hour, each far-echoing report of victory The Hoàng Liên mountains tower high / The Red River flows down to the plains / The enemy's crimes are piled as high as the mountains / Our hatred is like the river's water, never running dry / Beat the drums, oh mountains and forests / Beat the drums, oh mountains and forests The riverside village, the palm-covered hills deep green / The same old communal house, the same banyan tree / Where flintlock guns of years past built a resistance base / Here our mountains and forests buried the invaders' dreams Do you remember, years ago when you were born / In our mountain homeland even the buffalo knew how to fight the enemy / Lamps glowing in the stilt houses on dew-laden nights / It was…
Themes
Vietnamese Perspective · Vietnamese Patriotic · Women Fighters · First Indo-China War · Ho Chi Minh · Reunification
From the release Tiếng Hát Việt Nam