Culture Publishing House Orchestra
Gẩy Đàn Lên Hỡi Người Bạn Mỹ = Let Us Make Music, American Friends
Dihavina NMS 0001 · Hanoi, Vietnam
- Artist
- Culture Publishing House Orchestra
- Title
- Gẩy Đàn Lên Hỡi Người Bạn Mỹ = Let Us Make Music, American Friends
- Release
- Quê Em = My Native Village
- Label
- Dihavina # NMS 0001
- Format
- LP · Album
- Language
- Instrumental
- Country
- Hanoi, Vietnam
- Songwriter
- Phạm Tuyên
- Genre
- Vietnamese Music · Nhạc đỏ
- Primary theme
- Vietnamese Patriotic
Lyrics
English: Tonight in Washington the fire of struggle is blazing / Your singing rings out everywhere, truth is shining bright / Day and night the Potomac River has mirrored your fine figure / Strumming your guitar, singing out loud, go and defend life Strum your guitar, my friend, let your song ring out louder / Let it set the blood boiling, determined to keep the spring / Let people everywhere take to the streets in a song of unity / Together sing with passion the song of Hồ Chí Minh Do you hear? Tonight all America is seething / Oh, the church bells toll mournfully, urging so many into the streets / Do you hear? In Việt Nam so many footsteps march along with you / Stop the hands of the murdering troops, go and preserve peace Strum your guitar, my friend, let your song ring out louder / Rise up, American people, let us clasp hands tightly / Struggle together for peace, destroy the war of aggression / Together sing with passion the song of Hồ Chí Minh Strum your guitar, my friend, keeping time with the guns of the South / Rise up, American people, let us clasp hands tightly / Struggle together for peace, destroy the war of aggression / Together sing with passion the song of Hồ Chí Minh / Together sing with passion the song of struggle ____ Vietnamese: Washington đêm nay lửa tranh đấu đang rực cháy / Nghe tiếng hát anh vang mọi nơi, chân lý đang tỏa sáng ngời / Sông Potomac ngày đêm đã in bóng anh đẹp thay / Tay gảy đàn miệng hát vang đi giữ lấy cuộc đời Gảy đàn lên đi bạn ơi…
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 · Peace · Ho Chi Minh
From the release Quê Em = My Native Village