`I miss someone indifferently… I miss someone. The river is far away, layer by layer of long rain, my eyes… oh my eyes used to have sadness and loneliness. When early autumn comes, when early autumn comes one morning…`

Almost everyone knows that this is a composition set to music by Pham Dinh Chuong based on Quang Dung’s lyrics.

I use the word poet instead of poet to call Quang Dung like other compilation books.

The context of the poem is around 1948, when the exile, desolation, and desolation caused by the war caused the `younger brother` to leave Son Tay city.

Quang Dung wrote `Son Tay People’s Eyes` as a gift to his lover, a pre-resistance prostitute named Nhat, whose other beautiful name was Akimi.

When the war broke out, she left the city and went to the resistance zone, becoming a coffee seller like in the famous songs `Coffee Shop Girl`, `Water Shop Girl`… And he became a soldier who set out to fight the enemy like

“I have left the war.

The Day River lazily carries emotions around Phu Quoc.

The poem `Son Tay People’s Eyes` was composed by Quang Dung in 1948 and was one of the most famous poems of that time.

Quang Dung is from Son Tay, Hoai Bac Pham Dinh Chuong’s maternal hometown is also in Son Tay.

This is the tea room founded by Pham Dinh Chuong, where he and the legendary Thang Long band performed music.

Previously, when he first started his career, Pham Dinh Chuong’s music was so pure and his lyrics were beautiful and loving, but since his broken marriage, his music has been thoughtful and the lyrics have been unusually melancholy.

Anecdotes say that there were nights under the enchanting colored lights of the `Pink Night` tea room, in the thick of cigarette smoke and strong alcohol vapor, while the sound of guns and cannons could still be heard in the distance.

The inherently good poem is set to the wonderful music of a poetic master sorcerer and becomes a masterpiece.

Let’s look at the score to see how beautifully the line `have you ever, have you ever, do you miss… love` put to music by Pham Dinh Chuong?

Pham Dinh Chuong created the lyrics: “Please join me in dreaming, dreaming of a day on motherland, a day when the shadow of the homeland, flowers and roads will dry with tears…” instead of the original lyrics: “I send my love, you carry it for me

Then, one day, before the war ended, his lover Akimi left the resistance zone to `retreat` to the city, leaving behind the poet’s sadness.

`The cold of the following season is about to set in. Do you miss me in the capital city? Spreading dust and rain around the defense line, the cold afternoon of the Qi river…` (Double banks).

Although the lyrics of the poem `Double Shores` only appear in the song `Son Tay People’s Eyes` in only the first stanza, to explain the `muse` of Quang Dung, it is necessary to bring up beautiful love stories.

Then she went to the South, this time there was a real difference between the two countries but it seemed like the world was far away.

In the fall of 1970, when the war entered its most tragic moments, people could only reminisce about the ancient lands in the North, the love stories of the old poetic days, but the old lullabies passed through their minds.

“When I see you again, peace will bloom on that day.

Pham Dinh Chuong wondered, after the painful losses of the war, one peaceful day, the day when the flowers will bloom again, will she remember me?

Women are eternal inspiration for poets and musicians.

Besides, the woman herself is also the `miracle medicine` that soothes painful wounds.

At the end of the song there is a line: `Son Tay people’s eyes, Son Tay people’s eyes, sad and far away from the land…`.

The poem `Son Tay People’s Eyes` was put to music by musician Pham Dinh Chuong in 1972.

The poem was born during the French resistance period, the song was completed more than twenty years later (in 1970) and published in 1972. The work is presented very elegantly and beautifully with flying handwriting.

Now, the musician and the poet must have met each other in the eternal land, perhaps the only thing left for life is the masterpiece `Son Tay People’s Eyes`…

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