With his amazing song “Vietnam - my mother country”, it seemed that Do Nhuan was “the chosen one” to send the message about his people to every soul in this world.
Yes, that is my mother country which is a paradise of outstanding beauty bestowed by the Mother Nature.
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Ngắm mặt biển xanh xa tít chân trời
Nghe sóng vỗ dạt dào biển cả
Vút phi lao gió thổi bên bờ
Buồm vươn cánh vượt sóng ra ngoài khơi
Trong nắng hồng bừng lên sáng ngời
Those are beautiful lyrics beginning in the song “Vietnam – my mother country” composed by Do Nhuan about forty years ago. The too-good-to-be-true landscapes and rhythm in this song used to make many people suspicious, including me. In that hard time, how come there were such tranquility and beauty?
However, every time the song is played, the mother country just stretches out in such a plain and tranquil way that it brings tears to our eyes. Maybe just Vietnamese people who experienced numerous wars with untold misery, with dramatic loss and with long separation can ever have burning desire for such a simple thing: The Peacefulness.
We often talk among ourselves about the Heaven and many of us dream about it. So do I! However, the Heaven to me is not the place full of fantasy and we just fly dreamiy in it. The Heaven is this where we are living now.
These magnificent mountains, these fertile fields, these rivers, …
all belong to Vietnam – my mother country....
It is in this very country can we find a lot fertile cereal crops, large shady trees, dreamy rivers, close-kit families, friendly fire with no malnutrition, no hatred, no oppression, no
confinement, and especially no war. That is why in Do Nhuan’s song, the melody is so haunting with that breathtaking scenery and real Heaven.
With his amazing song “Vietnam - my mother country”, it seemed that Do Nhuan was “the chosen one” to send the message about his people to every soul in this world.
Perhaps one day that dream about The Peacefulness will be buried heartlessly somewhere, but the tremendous vitality and eternal route the human beings have chosen to set foot on will revive and take us back to its true way!
I do not understand much about music, but my inner voice can tell me what is ringing in each word. Every time the song “Vietnam – my mother country” is played, it looks as if I became a little boy running proudly on my own land with the sunshine, the wind, the abundant crops, the high hills, the rivers and the seas.
I guess all of those feelings are brought by the song. Maybe the rhythm and beauty in the song has touched my once, and awakened me, and finally talked to my soul. The reason is it is my very desire, my very dream about my own land. That desire, that dream also belong to each and every one in this world.
That is my mother country - beloved Vietnam with green bamboo, springs running through tea fields, green coconut trees, the lovely lullaby, sugarcane fields, …
My Vietnamese people with their business,
hard work and peacefulness.
Many people in the world have set off to reach the land of that simple but great dream. Vietnamese people are among those. That wondeful land is a special gift Mother Nature has bestowed on human beings. However, bear in mind that it is also easily lost by the war, heartlessness of human beings.
That dream of a peaceful land is bigger than any other one but it is so simple a dream nourished deep down in the hearts of the composer, each and every Vietnamese person, and all people in the world. Vietnames people know it and willingly fight for it.
Up to now, Vietnamese people still continue to fight for their land’s peacefulness. The first fight was against invaders and the second one was against malnutrition, illiteracy, injustice, ect.
When those things are completely erased, we will find the Heaven we always dream of.
Many works in literature, music, and art by human beings have brought a burning desire for attrative prospects. “The Promised Land” is the land with that peacefulness.
The fight against malnutrition, illiteracy, injustice, ect is a long, enduring way. Maybe at this time, Vietnamese people like you, like me are fighting though we cannot obviously see it; we just feel it and “see” it with our love and our desire. When a person dreams of the peacfulness and willingly fights for it, the peacefulness is already right there in his heart.
And I listened to the song “Vietnam – my mother country” with those feelings, those dreams!
Listen to the song
Vietnam - My mother country
Writer : Do Nhuan
Bạn ơi hãy đến quê hương chúng tôi
Ngắm mặt biển xanh xa tít chân trời
Nghe sóng vỗ dạt dào biển cả
Vút phi lao gió thổi bên bờ
Buồm vươn cánh vượt sóng ra ngoài khơi
Trong nắng hồng bừng lên sáng ngời
Miền Nam đất nước quê hương chúng tôi
Có rừng dừa xanh xa tít chân trời
Người thiếu nữ dạt dào tình trẻ
Dáng xinh tươi đang tuổi yêu đời
Lòng trai tráng rộng lớn như biển khơi
Với cánh tay dựng lên đất trời
Mùa Xuân đã tới quê hương chúng tôi
Mía ngọt chè xanh bông trắng lưng đồi
Đồng xanh lúa rập rờn biển cả
Tiếng ai ru con ngủ ru hời
Đồng xanh lúa thẳng cánh bay cò bay
Đưa nước về làng quê xóm tôi
Việt Nam yêu dấu thanh thanh lũy tre
Suối đổ về sông qua những nương chè
Dòng sông cuốn dồn về biển cả
Lứa thanh niên vui thỏa cuộc đời
Mùa Xuân tới nguồn sống đang sục sôi
Đất nước tôi Việt Nam sáng ngời
