ベトナムの空 (Vietnam Sky) (マイク眞木) (Mike Maki)

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Anti-war song "ベトナムの空" ("Vietnam Sky") (Philips # SFL-1051), composed by songwriter 日高義 (Yoshi Hidaka), and here performed by Mike Maki, born on 27 April 1944 in Tokyo, Japan. The song also featured on his 1966 album Folk Album No. 2. Also note the more well-known version of this song, released in 1969 by 高石ともや [Tomoya Takaishi] on the single ホー・チ・ミンのバラード / ベトナムの空. The song focused on capturing the sounds and images of combat, from helicopters to burning villages and water buffalos, all familiar perceptions associated with the Vietnam War: "helicopter flew away... water buffalo echoed in the Mekong River... burnt-out village... blood everywhere".
"There was a wounded soldier just looking up at the Vietnamese sky / The sky was as red as blood / And the helicopter flew away, and the gunshots stopped / The voice of the water buffalo echoed in the Mekong River / The sky was as red as blood, and he was watching / A burnt-down village and forest where no one dies alone / The sky is hazy with smoke and is red like blood everywhere / Holding a gun in my weakening hand, I remember my hometown / Leaving behind the smile of my mother / Why did I go out into the wild / The sky is as red as blood / The helicopter flies away, and the sound of gunfire stops / It echoes in the Mekong River / The skies of Vietnam are getting dark again today / Hanoi and Saigon are all the same sky / The sky is blood red everywhere / The helicopter flies away, the sound of gunfire ceases / It echoes in the Mekong River" [auto-translation used]
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"ベトナムの空を　ただ見上げている / 傷ついた兵隊が　一人いた / 空はどこまでも / 血のように赤い / ヘリコプターが飛び去り /　砲声が途絶えて / メコン川にこだまする / 水牛の声 / 空はどこまでも / 血のように赤い / 見守る誰もなく / 一人死んでゆく / 焼き払われた村や森 / 煙にかすむ / 空はどこまでも / 血のように赤い / 弱まる手に銃を抱き / 思い出す故郷（こきょう） / 母の微笑み残して /　何故いくさに出た / 空はどこまでも /　血のように赤い / ヘリコプターが飛び去り / 砲声が途絶えて / メコン川にこだまする / ベトナムの空は / 今日も暮れてゆく / ハノイやサイゴン深浦も / みんな同じ空 / 空はどこまでも / 血のように赤い / ヘリコプターが飛び去り / 砲声が途絶えて / メコン川にこだまする"

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