Cô Gái Mở Đường = A Road-Clearing Girl
Dihavina · Hanoi, North Vietnam
- Artist
- Bích Liên
- Title
- Cô Gái Mở Đường = A Road-Clearing Girl
- Release
- Đường Chúng Ta Đi = The Way We Follow
- Label
- Dihavina
- Format
- LP · Album
- Language
- Vietnamese
- Country
- Hanoi, North Vietnam
- Songwriter
- Xuân Giao
- Genre
- Vietnamese Music · Nhạc đỏ
- Primary theme
- Vietnamese Patriotic
Lyrics
English: Walking under the late-night sky with the stars twinkling / Whose singing echoes through the forest trees? / Could it be you, the road-opening girls? / I can't see your faces, I only hear your singing / Oh you girls opening the road day and night / How old are you, to have such extraordinary strength? You go into the forest and the green trees open a path / You go up the mountain and the mountain bows its head / You go to build the spans of bridges / Linking the roads of our beloved Fatherland / So the trucks can drive straight to the battlefield A country girl who left home to save the nation / With her black hair, at the age of a full moon / Your hands break rocks to open the road / Hardships must step back and let you advance / Do you hear the gunfire at the front urging your heart on? / The South is earnestly calling our whole country to set out Uncle Hồ's words shine bright in your heart / Like the morning star sparkling over the mountains and forests / Lighting your way as you build each stretch of road / On the land of our beloved Fatherland / Oh, the new and heroic road The night has grown late, the dew soaks your clothes / Your singing echoes through the mountains and forests / Despite the falling bombs and the haze of flares / You keep opening the road so the trucks can get through / How we love the girls happily opening the road day and night / Of all the hundred flowers blooming in the forest, none can compare You go levelling forests, you go cutting…
About the artist
Vietnamese singer, born Nguyễn Bích Liên on 14 July 1944 in Thường Tín, Hà Đông; a singer of revolutionary songs active mainly during the war, made Meritorious Artist in 1984. [Source: Wikipedia (Vietnamese)]
Themes
Vietnamese Perspective · Vietnamese Patriotic · Ho Chi Minh Trail · Vietnamese Girls · Air War · Jungle
From the release Đường Chúng Ta Đi = The Way We Follow