The Talented War Compositor's Last Notes and Last Words 
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 "Don't cry for me, for I go where music is born"
Bach said to his wife as he lay on his deathbed.

 "This is not Beethoven lying here!"
Beethoven

 "Now is my final agony. No more." 
Chopin's final words, as he listened to Mozart's Requiem.

 "Here, here is my end." 
Schubert's last words.

Farewell Saigon, my beloved Saigon
I have to leave You, once Capital forever!
Farewell, dear City, so beautiful
So-named "The Pearl of the Extreme-East"
Farewell forever! Oh!
Farewell, dear City, so nice so pretty
So-called "The Paris of the Far East"
Farewell forever! Ah!
The memories of you will be my only consolation,
My dear City, my Hometown!
I am forever pierced with sorrow and sadness
All I have combatted and fought for is lost
But at last we will win forever
Because our Great Cause is Freedom and Liberty
Our Will is Democracy and Wealth
And our Vision is always the Immortal and Eternal Yellow Flag
All my Love to millions of my young Brothers-in-arms
Today is gone into the Fire with me
But I am always next to you millions of Old Soldiers
In exile even inside the Motherland
Or in exile in North America and Western Europe
I have been annoyed with what's around me
Since I went back almost dead
From the communists' concentration camp
But I decided to stay in my own beloved Motherland
And I have been living and observing all events happening in the Fatherland
Although I have not been able to live as before
In the South Vietnam, in Saigon my Hometown
Where my youth was so bright!

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Oh millions of black-eyed young women
Mother Vietnam gives you eyes like stars
In the troubled Black hole of History
Oh millions of black-eyed young women
Inside and outside the Motherland and Homeland
Oh millions of black-eyed young women
With pain in my heart, late at night
Without you I could not compose my romantic and patriotic songs
Oh millions of black-eyed young women
Oh why did Mother Vietnam gives
You such brave and much beauty to inspire me creating songs

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The Vietnam Dream
I do know what it means...
It means Freedom and Democracy
It means Social Justice and Human Rights
And I have been dreaming this Vietnam Dream
Even this Rêverie chases me at the last breath under the Yellow Flag
The Vietnam Spring
I do know what it means...
It means Freedom and Democracy
It means Social Justice and Human Rights
And I have been dreaming this Vietnam Spring
Even this Spring chases me at the last breath under the Yellow Flag
But O my White Dove! Look now
How slowly the Vietnam Dream comes towards you,
90 million enslaved Vietnamese inside the Motherland
But O my White Dove! Look now
How slowly the Vietnam Spring comes towards you,
4 million Free Vietnamese ouside the Homeland
But do hope and let us believe and hope altogether
Time has just changed suddenly
America is back
And USS aircraft carrier Carl Vinson is docking in my dear Danang
The first visit of an American aircraft carrier to our Homeland
Since the end of the Vietnam War in 1975
Time has changed and America is back




MILLIONS OF VIETNAMESE HONEST PEOPLE - TRIỆU LƯƠNG DÂN VIỆT