Bonjour Vietnam.

• Aramax
  March 21st, 2007 at 5:24 pm

  Why is the whole song in french?

  I will translate a part of the song…

  “…my little feet that carried me since I was born…”

  The song talk a lot about the physical description of Vietnamese peoples… I dont know if I should show this to my cousin ( His father is from Vietnam ) because it’s almost racist… and certainly cheesy.

• Aramax
  March 21st, 2007 at 5:28 pm

  I guess since it’s performed by Pham Quynh Anh it’s not that much of a racist song but still… I dont think I would like if someone would sing a song about racial stereotype of my ethnicity.

• Kelly
  March 21st, 2007 at 5:53 pm

  I don’t care for the song, but the pictures are beautiful.

• Barjak
  March 21st, 2007 at 8:38 pm

  Wow !

  How can you say that this song is racist ?? This is crazy ! Or maybe you didn’t understood the lyrics and what it’s talking about.

  This song was written by Marc Lavoine specially for Pham Quynh Anh, and it tells her story : the feelings of a young vietnamese who grew up outside of her country of birth because of the war. How could it be racist in any way ?

• Alex
  March 21st, 2007 at 9:38 pm

  Both the song and the pictures are quite beautiful.

• Anh Tran
  March 22nd, 2007 at 3:38 pm

  I don’t understand french, can someone translate the whole song for us? Thank you.
  The pictures, the music and the singer’s voice are so beautiful that I don’t know how to describe.
  Thanks again for the beautiful work.

• Titi
  March 22nd, 2007 at 4:56 pm

  Aramax > This song is ABSOLUTLY NOT RACIST ! I’m french and the lyrics don’t say that you seems to think. The singer, Pham Quynh Anh, is a belgium vietnamian… !

• Tom p
  March 22nd, 2007 at 7:59 pm

  amazing pictures…..rubbish song

• Kevin
  April 26th, 2007 at 9:30 pm

  For anyone to say this song is racist or rubbish is to show they are completely devoid of sentiment,compassion or artistic feeling. As told previously it is a song inspired by and dedicated to a young girl who has never had the chance to see her mother country and it pays hommage to that.I salute Marc Lavoine and his beautiful protege Pham Quynh Anh .

• Tuan
  May 12th, 2007 at 12:11 am

  It’s a nostalgic song that has evidently touched a lot of hearts, including mine.

  Translation from http://english.ohmynews.com/articleview/article_view.asp?menu=c10400&n o=273609&rel_no=1

  Tell me this name, strange and difficult to pronounce
  That I have carried since my birth
  Tell me the old empire and the feature of my slanted eyes
  Describing me better than what you dare not say
  I only know you from the war images
  A Coppola movie, (and) the angry helicopters
  Someday, I will go there, someday to say hello to your soul
  Someday, I will go there, to say hello to you, Vietnam
  Tell me my color, my hair and my small feet
  That I have carried since my birth
  Tell me your house, your street, tell me this unknown entity
  The floating markets and the wooden sampans
  I could only recognize my country from the war photos
  A Coppola movie, (and) the helicopters in anger
  Someday, I will go there, someday to say hello to your soul
  Someday, I will go there, to say hello to you, Vietnam
  The temples and the stone-carved Buddha statues for my fathers
  The stooping women in the rice fields for my mothers
  Praying in the light to see my brothers again
  To touch my soul, my roots, my land.
  Someday, I will go there, someday to say hello to your soul
  Someday, I will go there, to say hello to you, Vietnam (twice)

• Paige
  July 6th, 2008 at 11:32 pm

  This song is awsome no one could sing it better than Quynh Anh, and she looks like she came from a decent family, well educated not like Nhu Loan or something

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