The war has long since ended. Every year, as scheduled, those days of war are solemnly recalled so that at least the younger generation who grew up after 1975 will know the history of the struggle in which our ancestors shed blood. And to be fair, music has contributed a significant part in that long and arduous struggle.
Love songs during the war are generally more numerous than love songs during the resistance war against the French. Although there are few, they are beautiful love songs like a painting that every time you listen to it, you feel like you are seeing the situation of the country at that time again.
Some people say that since peace there have been many love songs, but in terms of quantity, there are, but in terms of quality, these love songs have difficulty standing the test of time and being deeply engraved in people's hearts.
There are many love songs during the war, but in this short "feeling" article, the author only "names" a few love songs of couples during the resistance war, and only during the resistance war in particular and in the war in general, there are typical songs in both form and content. The love songs were born during the resistance war, the time when the country's new music was just emerging from its embryonic period (1938), from hardships and deprivations of all kinds, yet they wrote love songs that were beautiful in every note and word.
Love songs of couples during the resistance war, typically "Moonlit stream" (Le Mong Nguyen) "Old wharf" (Anh Viet), Anh Viet also has a very famous love song that during the nine years of resistance war everyone knew by heart, that is the song "Afternoon in the deep forest": "... In the distant, gloomy forest dyed with the dim moonlight / The sound of the wind whistling through thousands of withered trees / The temple bells ring here reminding the souls of the wronged / The forest still bears hatred forever in the dusk / ... Many days of fighting here stained with the blood of heroes / The traces are still recorded for a thousand years without fading...".
“The Siren in the Night Fog” (Le Truc) and “The Words of the Departed” (Tran Hoan). Any separation is tragic, but in these four love songs, the separation between two people is the main theme, a separation without a return date, a separation to fulfill a noble mission, sad but not tragic: “… One afternoon you walked away, I saw you off at the end of the hill/ I heard myself telling myself that the resistance war would be long (bis) and arduous/ Blood would still fall, bones would still fall/ many layers of people on the front lines poured out, preventing the enemy from trampling our people…”.
The surprisingly simple notes convey the words in Mélodie that can only be found in these moments of farewell. During the resistance war against the French, people sang the Words of the Departed as a blessing even though the battlefield was ahead.
Separation in war is always forewarned. Afternoon and night are the spaces and times that musicians always choose to have a suitable color scheme: “… I always remember a spring afternoon of separation, dark clouds descending on the hills/ And in my heart it rained more than outside/ Grass, trees, flowers and leaves/ Forever missing the person who left…” (Smile of the Mountain - To Hai).
“… One night in the deserted forest/ The moonlight slanted over the cliff/ The silhouette of a mountain girl with a pretty smile could be seen/ One night in the mountains/ A traveler looked up at the distant sky/ Watching the moon passionately, alone and wistful/…” (Song of the Mountain Girl-Tran Hoan).
“… You promised to come with me to the stream bank/ The misty afternoon forest, the moonlight shining dimly
One passionate night and then tomorrow we will be apart/ Then we will go our separate ways, not knowing which way to go/ The stream of dreams is quiet and dim for a thousand years/ My heart is sad from separation, missing the lonely afternoon/…” (The Moon by the Stream - Le Mong Nguyen).
A holy parting, beautiful and clear as a stream flowing from a pure underground stream.
Love during the resistance war is so beautiful, the setting is a forest, a stream, hills, a dike, a pond bank... they parted in a situation where they did not know when they would return, because "The resistance is still long" (The words of the departed), "Knowing to go, I miss you sadly" (The old wharf), "The lonely person goes far away from the distant school" (The dim moon by the stream)...
Love songs during the resistance war are a highlight in Vietnamese music, even though the country's music industry was still in its infancy at that time.
There were not many love songs during the resistance war, but they left an indelible mark in the hearts of listeners, and they were sung again so that the old people could "listen - again - to - the - memories" and the young people could know that during the resistance war, there were many losses, separations, poverty... yet there were love songs as beautiful as a legend!
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