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Huế, Sài Gòn, Hà Nội

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Alternative English version by Frank Duong
HUE, SAI GON, HA NOIHUE, SAI GON, HA NOI
Hue, Sai Gon, Ha Noi, oh fatherland why you're still remote
Hue, Sai Gon, Ha Noi, for many years why you're still detached
Oh Viet Nam, for how long
will people sit and miss each other
Our millions feet, your millions feet
dear three zones, rise in revolt
Oh, Hue Saigon Hanoi, my country,
why are you so far away still?
Hue Saigon Hanoi, so many years have gone by,
why are you still so indifferent?
Oh Vietnam, for how much longer
Must people still sit missing one another?
Millions my feet, millions your feet,
All those people who rise for the call of revolution
It's the time to link our common heart
All us youths, let's advance by pioneer steps
From Central South North, burningly waiting
torches blaze to cheer freedom
The roads now lead to prisons
tomorrow we'll build schools or hold markets
Our people will plough and rake, have a well-fed life
Hands help nation, hands build our land
Old resentment and hatred traces will fade
It's time for linking our hearts together,
All us youths, let's be the pioneers
All over Central South and North, waiting eagerly,
all those bundles of rice are symbols of freedom
The roads now lead to the prisons
tomorrow let us build schools and market places
Our people shall return to cultivate and ensure all are well clothed and fed.
All hands will work for the nation,
All hands will build, let the memory of hatred and pain fade away
We'll keep building houses, gardens will keep bearing fruits
for you going to mountains singing joyful love
Oh North South Central, uniting as a whole
destroy border, widen roads to build a peaceful land
We will keep building our houses, our gardens will prosper,
Let me go up the hill to sing with joy
North, South and Centre, let us unite and be one region again
All three frontiers open, roads built and peace returns to the country
Hue, Sai Gon, Ha Noi, twenty years of miserable cries
Hue, Sai Gon, Ha Noi, inside us are aching Vietnamese hearts
Bombs bullets, oh greed, which weapons can destroy our people
Oh Viet Nam, wake from dreams,
goggle at hatred is all gone
Hue Saigon Hanoi, for 20 years, the cries of misfortune,
Hue Saigon Hanoi, in our hands, the heart of Vietnam
Bullets and bombs, human greed, what war machines destroy our kind
Oh Vietnam, stop dreaming, look forward and get rid of hatred
Let's wipe off all past sadness,
Let wipe all sad traces away
Tomorrow, roads from South to North will blossom
Affectionate hands, no-frontier hearts
Oh brothers, listen to mutual love
The big happy day will pass hundred bridges
Mother offers arena then betel limb
for two zones meeting again, heart feels touching
Southern day Northern night, eyes brimming with love
will see hundreds honeyed sunrises
Tomorrow, all roads linking South and North covered with flowers
Loving hands and hearts with no frontiers
Brothers let's listen to all the love
The big joy shall pass hundred of bridges
The mother will enjoy the betel nuts
Watching the two regions sharing the peace with hearts filled with warmth
Day in the South, night in the North,
Eyes taking in all the changes, seeing the sweet dawn breaking
Horses fly with winds, hearts cheer myriad steps
for our people growing up in freedom
Oh North South Central, a warm affection
step out this perdition once
build our common roof
Horses flying past with the wind, hearts beating with the galloping noises
Let us stand up in freedom
North South and Centre in deep love;
Stepping out together jointly building our shared thatched house.
Do wipe off all signs of past sadness,
Let wipe all sad traces away
Tomorrow, roads from South to North will blossom
Affectionate hands, no-frontier hearts
Oh brothers, listen to mutual love
The big happy day will pass hundred bridges
Mother offers arena then betel limb
for two zones meeting again, heart feels touching
Southern day Northern night, eyes brimming with love
will see hundreds honeyed sunrises
Tomorrow all South North roads will be covered with flowers
Hands of love, hearts of no frontiers, brothers lets listen to the love,
The big joy shall pass hundred of bridges
Mother will enjoy the betel nuts
Watching the two regions sharing the peace with hearts filled with warmth
Day in the South, night in the North,
Eyes taking in all the changes, seeing the sweet dawn breaking
Horses fly with winds, hearts cheer myriad steps
for our people growing up in freedom
Oh North South Central, a warm affection
step out this perdition once
build our common roof.
Horses flying past with the wind,
Hearts beating with the galloping noises
Lets us upraise in freedom
North South and Centre in deep love;
Stepping out together jointly building our shared thatched house.


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