Credited on the record as 中央合唱団.
我らの行く手に勝利あり [Victory Lies Ahead of Us]
1965 · Center [Tokyo] Sonopiece 15 · Tokyo, Japan
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- Artist
- Central Choir
- Credited on the record as
- 中央合唱団
- Title
- 我らの行く手に勝利あり [Victory Lies Ahead of Us]
- Release
- 平和のうたごえを１０００万人にひろげよう １５ ベトナム特集 [Let's Spread the Voice of Peace to 10 Million People 15 – Vietnam Special]
- Year
- 1965
- Label
- Center [Tokyo] # Sonopiece 15
- Format
- Flexi · EP
- Language
- Japanese
- Country
- Tokyo, Japan
- Songwriter
- 木下そんき (music), やまかわみのる (words)
- Genre
- Japanese Music · Contemporary Folk
- Primary theme
- Peace, Protest & Anti-War
Lyrics
Japanese: 雨しぶきわたるベトナムに 夜明けの火もえるコンゴの森に にくいにくい弾丸がとぶ 毒ガス北爆許さず
Notes
A3. 1965 Japanese solidarity song with Vietnam (Nagoya Dentsu poet, Osaka newspaper-worker composer): rain on Vietnam, poison gas, bombing of the North; also Congo, Seoul Center Sonopiece series No. 15, "ベトナム特集" (Vietnam Special), red flexi-disc, 33⅓ rpm, "音楽センター制作"; side A: 自由ベトナム行進曲, 南ベトナムを解放しよう, われらの行手に勝利あり; side B: ベトナムの乙女たち, 作業場の休憩, おい仲間達; chorus 中央合唱団, conductors 関鑑子 and 井上頼豊. The front is a colour photograph of a Vietnamese women's march with flags, raised fists and placards reading "Đế quốc Mỹ cút khỏi miền Nam Việt Nam"; the back lists the Center Sonopiece series Nos. 1–15 (¥200) and Ongaku Center, 西大久保3-67, 新宿区, Tokyo. The lyric sheet, printed over a photograph of a mass rally, gives 南ベトナムを解放しよう as "南ベトナム解放歌" with Japanese words by 関鑑子 and accompaniment by the Center Ensemble, and ベトナムの乙女たち as a "ベトナム歌曲" translated by 関鑑子, accompaniment 松永勇次, conductor 関鑑子. The notes say…
Themes
Anti-War · Anti-Imperialism · Vietnamese Perspective · Solidarity · Demonstration · Anti-American
From the release 平和のうたごえを１０００万人にひろげよう １５ ベトナム特集 [Let's Spread the Voice of Peace to 10 Million People 15 – Vietnam Special]
In collections
Japanese Songs · Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs [War Years]