Materials
vocal
ICH Materials 165
Audios
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The hesitation of a faraway husband
The brown bird settles itself on the brown tree branch\nSo why won't you settle for a nearby husband and yet chose a faraway one\nOne day as (your) parents are old and weak\nThen who will hand us (parents) the chopsticks to eat, the tea to drink\n\nLullabies (Ru) within the family environment has a hypnotising function, where it's used to ease the child into sleeping. Southern Vietnam (Nam bộ) lullabies was formed and sustained through the many layers of Nam bộ culture. The environmental ecosystem and culture have given it a distinctive form that is expressed through lyrics, melodies, and rhytms.
Viet Nam October, 2021 -
The sorrow of infidelity
The breeze swiftly blow the (banana) bushes\nWhile you're enchanted by your lover and neglected your child\n\nLullabies (Ru) within the family environment has a hypnotising function, where it's used to ease the child into sleeping. Southern Vietnam (Nam bộ) lullabies was formed and sustained through the many layers of Nam bộ culture. The environmental ecosystem and culture have given it a distinctive form that is expressed through lyrics, melodies, and rhytms.
Viet Nam October, 2021 -
Please don't leave me
The hands that hold the scissors and neddle\nThe hands that hold the silk to the tailor\nThe hands that provide the rich taste of ginger sauce\nOur love is as rich and deep as the ginger taste, so please don't leave me\n\nLullabies (Ru) within the family environment has a hypnotising function, where it's used to ease the child into sleeping. Southern Vietnam (Nam bộ) lullabies was formed and sustained through the many layers of Nam bộ culture. The environmental ecosystem and culture have given it a distinctive form that is expressed through lyrics, melodies, and rhytms.
Viet Nam October, 2021 -
Lover's musings
The deep river is hard to wade through\n(I'm) afraid that the ferry won't carry (us) through the other side\n\nLullabies (Ru) within the family environment has a hypnotising function, where it's used to ease the child into sleeping. Southern Vietnam (Nam bộ) lullabies was formed and sustained through the many layers of Nam bộ culture. The environmental ecosystem and culture have given it a distinctive form that is expressed through lyrics, melodies, and rhytms.
Viet Nam October, 2021 -
Bitter about the rope (3)
I thought the well was deep so I mended a long rope\nTurned out the well was shallow so I'm bitter about the rope\n\nLullabies (Ru) within the family environment has a hypnotising function, where it's used to ease the child into sleeping. Southern Vietnam (Nam bộ) lullabies was formed and sustained through the many layers of Nam bộ culture. The environmental ecosystem and culture have given it a distinctive form that is expressed through lyrics, melodies, and rhytms.
Viet Nam October, 2021 -
Welcoming migrants to the new land
The dragons are out at Huế\nThe horses reside in Đồng Nai\nThe river flows out and about\nAs we welcome the pilgrims that wandered this land\n\nThe blues (Hò) is a folk genre that originates from the working environment. Thanks to hò, it's helped the worker to aid their spirit, harmoneously integrate with the social interactions to bring out the best productivity outcome.
Viet Nam October, 2021 -
Please don't marry me off too far
Mother please don't marry me off\nWhere the foreign lands gets strange and I won't find the way home\n\nThe blues (Hò) is a folk genre that originates from the working environment. Thanks to hò, it's helped the worker to aid their spirit, harmoneously integrate with the social interactions to bring out the best productivity outcome.
Viet Nam October, 2021 -
A Flirtareous Conversation
Meeting you is like a fish saw its bait\nYour reputation was known, as I'm excited to be acquainted\n-\nMy fate has been unlucky and lonely\nFor long its been neglected, waiting for you\n\nThe blues (Hò) is a folk genre that originates from the working environment. Thanks to hò, it's helped the worker to aid their spirit, harmoneously integrate with the social interactions to bring out the best productivity outcome.
Viet Nam October, 2021 -
Please don't marry a faraway husband
The fish lounges on the rocks\nThe bird settles on the tree branch \nYou told me not to marry someone faraway \nSo that one day your parents grow old\nThen who will hand them the chopsticks to eat, the tea tray to drink\n\nThe blues (Hò) is a folk genre that originates from the working environment. Thanks to hò, it's helped the worker to aid their spirit, harmoneously integrate with the social interactions to bring out the best productivity outcome.
Viet Nam October, 2021 -
Catfish song
Reaching hands into the catfish pouch\nYou live in strange waters and faraway lands\nIn the dark of night with the mysterious moon on high\nWhere do you live? Can you tell me again?
Viet Nam October, 2021 -
Luffa song
It's in the afternoon, where I'm cooking soup with the melon\nI saw that you came around to drop some scallions with it \n- \nIt's the green of the melon vine\nHow can one greet a stranger when they're first met?
Viet Nam October, 2021 -
Cutting Weed song
Hey lady, who's cutting weed alone\nLet me join you with the cutting so we can form a couple\nAre you still cutting or not\nThen let me cut with you and we can become spouse\nLady that cuts weed on the field\nLady that cuts the thread of fate\nA broken thread doesn't mean much anymore
Viet Nam October, 2021