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Secretly Blame   Leave a comment

Music & Lyric: Nguyen -Thao Luong

English version is editing , not done yet.

Mắt em là – My eyes are

Ngàn ánh sao trời – a thousand stars above

Tóc em là My hair is

Dòng suối mơ tiên- a dream-like stream’s course

Cánh tay mềm -Your soft arm
Là gối ru êm -is a soft pillow

Cho tôi về- Let me go home

Lạc lối chân quen- lost from the familiar way

Cỏ xanh đồi -Green grass on hillsides

Dưới ánh trăng vàng -under the golden moonlight

Nơi ta ngồi -the place where I sit

Là bức tranh mơ -is a dream-like image

Gió ru đời life is lulled by the wind

Giọng nói em thơ Your poetic voice

Cho ta tìm let me seek

Một chút mộng mơ like a little dream

Rồi… nghìn trùng xa cách …trách ai… sao đi về phương ấy – Then… a thousand leagues away

Whose to blame……..why go to that place?

Người ..đợi người …mắt biếc năm xưa sao tìm hoài đâu thấy – One person waits for another

Why am I always looking for the eyes from the past but never seeing them

Đàn thôi không phím ngân the instrument doesn’t resonate

Sầu lên trong mắt dâng Tearful eyes are filled with sadness

Rượu say muốn uống thêm Intoxicated, yet wanting more

Cố quên người đi… trách thầm với ai Try to forget that person……..who is to secretly blame

Tóc xanh hiền gentle youth

Nay đã phai màu- which has faded

Gió lên đồi -The wind upon the hill

Hẹn ước năm xưa= the promise of the past

Chén bôi thề- the cup is covered by a vow ?????

Rồi cũng quên mau -then so soon forgotten

Nhớ nhung hoài- missed constantly

Mà chẳng thấy đâu- but never seen

Nguyên Thảo edit : Chén bôi thề the cup is covered by a vow ????? —–The drink we bottom up to swear

Phấn thông vàng powder passes to gold ?????____The yellow pollen grain spread over

Giọng nói em thơ Your poetic voice——Your softly voice

Cho ta tìm let me seek———I ‘ll see

Một chút mộng mơ like a little dream ———a sweety dream

Posted April 17, 2012 by The Mandolin in Music compose, music perform, piano demo, Poem

” Phố Xưa”—“Memories of hometown” —“The Mandolin” movie   Leave a comment

Acknowledge: Thuy Vinh Le artist-Quang Tuan singer

TICO TICO –ZEQUINHA DE ABREU   Leave a comment

Tico-Tico no Fubá is the title of a renowned Brazilian choro music piece composed by Zequinha de Abreu in 1917. Its original title was Tico-Tico no Farelo, but since Brazilian guitarist Américo Jacomino Canhoto (1889–1928) had a work with the same title,[1] Abreu’s work was given its present name in 1931.

Tico Tico no Fubá
(historic 1st recording)

Orquestra Colbaz. Recorded in 1931 (Columbia recording company).

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Choro (literally translated meaning lament) is also popularly known as chorinho in the affectionate diminutive form of Brazilian Portuguese. “Fubá” is a type of maize flour, and “tico-tico” is the name of a bird, the rufous-collared sparrow (Zonotrichia capensis). Hence, “tico-tico no fubá” means “tico-tico in the cornmeal

Link : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tico-Tico_no_Fub%C3%A1

NGUYEN-THAO PORTRAIT   7 comments

Posted April 7, 2012 by The Mandolin in picture demo