[ Marcel Cartier feat. The Red Star Singers ]

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Our entire people, from North to South have raised up
To defend their freedom and independence
We are absolutely sure of our victory

Let the struggle and resistance begin
Like a fire being spread by the wind
While the peasants lead the people again
Behind the guns of the Viet Minh

Vietnam
Vietnam will win

You wanna know about sacrifice?
Look at Vietnam
The steadfast struggle from Hanoi to Saigon
The brains of Ho Chi Minh, the strength of the mass
The peasants who rebelled against the occupying lands

The Japanese were gone, the French tried again
Until they came up against the guns of Viet Minh
League of Independence that handed a loss
Of epic proportions to the French in the form

Of 1954, Battle of Điện Biên Phủ
From that point forward they looked for an escape route
Just like Korea, the country was partitioned
New Western power with a globalized mission

Was now the USA, they took the southern half
Got the wealthy land owners who opposed uncle Ho’s path
The widespread reform: “land to the tiller”
The split was untenable, it had to get realer

Let the struggle and resistance begin
Like a fire being spread by the wind
While the peasants lead the people again
Behind the guns of the Viet Minh

Vietnam
Vietnam, Vietnam
Vietnam will win

Resistance had grown in the south in the 50s
US puppet government was threatened to be swiftly
Overrun by fighters who would then form
The National Liberation Front to take Saigon

US rulers in a frenzy and panic
Start to send soldiers into the battle
But the problem was these troops didn’t have
A tenth of the willpower that their opponents had

One American would die for every twenty of
The communist guerrillas instilled with love
And a duty to their homeland to unify it
Leadership of General Giáp behind it

From the Tet Offensive to Fall of Saigon
The 30th of April, time to say “so long”
To a very dark history of subjugation
At last, a free and independent nation

Let the struggle and resistance begin
Like a fire being spread by the wind
While the peasants lead the people again
Behind the guns of the Viet Minh

One people from Saigon to Hanoi
Reunifying what could not be destroyed
Like the songs that the people sing
Like the flags that they wave in the wind
Let the thunder and the echo ring

Vietnam
Vietnam will win

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“You will kill ten of us,
but in the end,
you will tire of it first.”

(Hồ Chí Minh)

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