Culture Publishing House Orchestra
Bài Ca Giao Thông Vận Tải = The Song Of Communication And Transport
Dihavina NMS 0001 · Hanoi, Vietnam
- Artist
- Culture Publishing House Orchestra
- Title
- Bài Ca Giao Thông Vận Tải = The Song Of Communication And Transport
- Release
- Quê Em = My Native Village
- Label
- Dihavina # NMS 0001
- Format
- LP · Album
- Language
- Instrumental
- Country
- Hanoi, Vietnam
- Songwriter
- Hoàng Vân
- Genre
- Vietnamese Music · Nhạc đỏ
- Primary theme
- Vietnamese Patriotic
Lyrics
English: On the burning roads / Behind the wheel for so many nights and days / How many rivers and mountains has your truck crossed? / Only the roads themselves know Oh, the roads, how we love them / Roads into the factories, roads to the countryside / Through the long years of our homeland's resistance / Every road leads to the front Here are cargoes heavy with love of country / Goods up to the mountains, goods down to the lowlands / Beside the bridges, wakeful so many nights / Every heart turns toward the front Through every flood season / Whose hands have kept the route open? / How many times bombs have fallen on every inch of ground / Only the roads themselves know Hear the forest birds lift their song / Celebrating the reopened route, greeting the passing convoy / Hear the horns — oh, how joyful / All to defeat the enemy and liberate the South Here are ships sailing through wind and waves / Trains crossing the railways, ships crossing the oceans / Here are cargoes carrying so much devotion / Helping win victory, heading straight to the front Like a long arm reaching out / We embrace the rivers, mountains and fields / We encircle the enemy, giving them no room to live / Road joining road, we advance to the front I remember the days of surveying new routes / Crossing passes, fording streams, trekking deep into the forest / Leaving the first footprints on the mountainside / Heading straight for the battlefield, opening roads far ahead Through the ferry landings, proudly…
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 · Ho Chi Minh Trail · Air War · Anti-American · Reunification
From the release Quê Em = My Native Village