“The birds are chirping, to and fro
My love, have you forgotten me?
As water can’t cut through the sand
I can’t cut you from my memories
The bridge (between you and I) has broken
The pathway is gone, and the water is so very deep
How am I to find you on the other side, so far away?”
Chhoun Vanna was a Cambodian singer between the 1950s and ’70s. She and her sister Chhoun Malai survived the Khmer Rouge genocide.
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No words…Been digging into Dengue Fever lately and those compilations on garage rock from Vietnam from the 60s/70s (Nuggets type of stuff). Also some interesting bits on Paredon / Smithsonian ‘Vietnam: songs of liberation’ & ‘Vietnam will win’. They’re a bit loyalist/military, but there you go.