Tiếng Hát Sông Lam = Song Of Lam River
Dihavina · Hanoi, North Vietnam
- Artist
- Thanh Huyền
- Title
- Tiếng Hát Sông Lam = Song Of Lam River
- Release
- Đường Chúng Ta Đi = The Way We Follow
- Label
- Dihavina
- Format
- LP · Album
- Language
- Vietnamese
- Country
- Hanoi, North Vietnam
- Songwriter
- Đinh Quang Hợp
- Genre
- Vietnamese Music · Nhạc đỏ
- Primary theme
- Vietnamese Patriotic
Lyrics
English: Ớ ơ hò, whoever knows whether the Lam River's water is clear or muddy / Knows in life what is shame and what is glory / My boat goes up the rapids (ờ) and down (ớ) the falls / Our land is all loyalty and love, oh friend Hò ơi dô khoan, like surging waves / Nghệ An rises up amid falling bombs and fire / Shooting down the enemy in flames, guarding our sea and sky and the lovely moon over our homeland Oh, how deeply moving the countless songs this evening / Heroic land, forever unbowed: Vinh City, Hưng Dũng, Quỳnh Trang / The militia fighters' rifles have won the day / The American aggressors are buried in this soil On the (ớ) Lam River the ferry songs ring out to the merry beat of the oars / The Bến Thủy workers steer with steady arms / The ferries cross back and forth all through the night Oh, the wind rises and the moon comes up over the alluvial land / How many seasons with plough in one hand and gun in the other, ask the girl of Đông village / The Ba Tơ cooperative now brings in a fine rice harvest / And the militia's rifles have won many victories Who knows? The wind fills the sails, fish leap off Hòn Ngư island / The young men of Nghi Hải cast their nets / Holding fast to the sea, this evening they bring home a full hold of fish Oh mountains, rivers and fields of Xô Viết Nghệ An / Every ploughman is a soldier, digging canals and clearing wild forest / Planting more green sweet-potato vines, sowing more seed rice / To fight the Americans, friends, keep your iron…
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
Vietnamese Perspective · Vietnamese Patriotic · Air War · Anti-American · Women Fighters