Thu Phương & The Vietnam National Music Song And Dance Theatre Traditional Orchestra
Tiễn Anh Lên Đường
1969 · Dihavina 6903 · Hanoi, North Vietnam
- Artist
- Thu Phương & The Vietnam National Music Song And Dance Theatre Traditional Orchestra
- Title
- Tiễn Anh Lên Đường
- Release
- Tiếng Hát Việt Nam
- Year
- 1969
- Label
- Dihavina # 6903
- Format
- 10" · Album
- Language
- Vietnamese
- Country
- Hanoi, North Vietnam
- Songwriter
- Nguyễn Văn Tý
- Genre
- Vietnamese Music · Nhạc đỏ
- Primary theme
- Vietnamese Patriotic
Lyrics
English: Go with a calm mind and steady steps, my love / However much work there is at home and for the country / I will see it all done, don't worry, set out with steady steps Everywhere across the land, wave after wave are setting out / Hatred engraved in brave hearts / You show a young man's resolve to defend our village / Seething with hatred for the American invaders You go to the front line, I join the militia / The two of us have sworn the same oath / Only when we have crushed the American invaders / And North and South are joined, will we be together again Our hatred burns ever fiercer / The people of the whole country are taking action together / If those American troops invade this area / Then all these guns will fire together / I know one day I too will win honours With every step you take you still look back at the vast fields / At home the cooperative will work harder, tending the crops morning and night / In the past girls took the place of boys through the long years of resistance Now girls take the place of boys, working harder in the fields / Striving to build irrigation and enclose the fields / Quickly fertilising more and more, tending them more and more You cross the mountains and climb the hills / I look after the rice fields, green everywhere / Do you see? We girls have learned to plough / So don't worry about the coming harvest / Who says we lack people to hoe and plough deep? Tomorrow, when the American invaders are destroyed / Happy birds in their…
Themes
Vietnamese Perspective · Vietnamese Patriotic · Anti-American · Reunification · Women Fighters · Volunteer
From the release Tiếng Hát Việt Nam