Culture Publishing House Orchestra
Hát Lên Em, Cô Gái Thái Bình = Sing, Lass Of Thai Binh
Dihavina NMS 0001 · Hanoi, Vietnam
- Artist
- Culture Publishing House Orchestra
- Title
- Hát Lên Em, Cô Gái Thái Bình = Sing, Lass Of Thai Binh
- Release
- Quê Em = My Native Village
- Label
- Dihavina # NMS 0001
- Format
- LP · Album
- Language
- Instrumental
- Country
- Hanoi, Vietnam
- Songwriter
- An Chung
- Genre
- Vietnamese Music · Nhạc đỏ
- Primary theme
- Vietnamese Patriotic
Lyrics
English: Intensively farmed fields, my homeland's rice crowds the green fields / Listen, it is as if they're whispering tender words / Is it a dream, that I see my village with yards full of rice? The same fields, the same people — my homeland toiled for ten years / Now the ears hang heavy with grain, this year five golden tonnes / Oh how beautiful, how beautiful (ư) the rice, green leaves and golden ears standing in straight rows (Ư tình bằng tình) the glorious rice / Glorious like the girl, the girl of Vietnam / Modest and gentle (ấy tình bằng) yet capable / Worthy of a golden name (ấy tình bằng tình), glorious Eighteen, twenty years old — my homeland of fine rice and pretty girls / Sing out, O girl of Thái Bình / I choose a folk verse for a song of love to give you From the distant battlefield, hearing your name, the gun feels lighter and the road happier / Celebrating your five-tonne crop, the seed you bred with your own hands / How capable the girl, the girl of our fields, so skilled with the water scoop (Ư tình bằng) expert with azolla / Capable like the girl who clears channels and digs ditches / The girl of our homeland (ấy tình bằng), loved a thousand times over / Worthy of a golden name (ấy tình bằng tình), glorious ____ Vietnamese: Ruộng đất thâm canh quê hương em lúa chật đồng xanh / Lắng nghe như có tiếng tâm tình / Phải đâu chiêm bao sao em thấy quê mình lúa đầy sân Ruộng đấy người đây quê hương em khó nhọc mười năm / Đến hôm nay bông trĩu hạt, lúa năm nay năm…
Notes
Dihavina NMS 0001, stereo, 33⅓ rpm; labels print "Nhà Xuất Bản Văn Hóa - Hà Nội Việt Nam" with side codes ME 137 (side A, also marked "78 1") and ME 138 (side B). The front cover, with a painted design of stylised flowers, is titled "Vietnamese Songs Without Words – Orchestra organized by 'Culture' Publishing House (Hanoi)" ("Bài ca không lời Việt Nam – Dàn nhạc do Nhà xuất bản Văn hóa tổ chức"). The back gives a bilingual Vietnamese/English tracklist of 13 instrumental pieces with composer, arranger and conductor for each: side A "Quê em" (Nguyễn Đức Toàn; arranged and conducted by Xuân Trường), "Hát lên em cô gái Thái Bình" (An Chung; arr. Huy Thư, cond. Đình Hùng), "Bài ca giao thông vận tải" (Hoàng Vân; arr. Hữu Bích, cond. Xuân Trường), "Làng tôi" (Văn Cao; arr. Huy Thư, cond. Xuân Trường), "Hai chị em" (Hoàng Vân), "Chào sông Mã anh hùng" (Xuân Giao; arranged and conducted by Trần…
About the artist
Various Artists
Themes
Vietnamese Perspective · Vietnamese Patriotic · Vietnamese Girls
From the release Quê Em = My Native Village