WE PROMISE ONE ANOTHER / MIÊN ĐỨC THẮNG / Don Luce giới thiệu....

We Promise One Another..
Don Luce introduced     
  
                                                   B  U  L  L  E  T S
                                                                    by
                                                 M i ê  n     Đ  ứ  c    T  h  ắ  n g *



                                    Oh ,   the  allied countries have given our people
                                    Bright pretty bullets made of copper !
                                    The Vietnamese people need food and clothing ,
                                    So generous allies increase their aid ,
                                    And supply us with more bright pretty bullets ;
                                    The Vietnamese strave to death ,
                                    They cannot eat a million bright pretty bullets ,
                                    We , father and son  each other
                                                                   under flying bullets ,
                                     We , brothers , meet each other
                                                                    under the flying cannonballs ,
                                    We , fellow villagers , meet each other
                                                                    under the guns in the square ;
                                     In the name of peace
                                     The allies support the two regions
                                     With the bullets of their civilization .
                                        []
                                     MIÊN ĐỨC THẮNG .
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* a  young Vietnamese composer .
   (  from WE PROMISE ONE ANOTHER / poems from an Asian war , selected,
      translated  by DON LUCE, JOHN SCHAFER &  JACQUELYN CHAGNON 
      - Published by The Indochina Moblie Education Project, Washington, D, C. 1971)