Song about Ho Chi Minh and Vietnam

Far away

across the ocean,

far beyond the sea's eastern rim,

lives a man who is father of the Indochinese

people, and his name, it is Ho Chi Minh.

Ho-ho, Ho Chi Minh. Ho-ho, Ho Chi

Minh.

From Vietnam to the Saigon

Delta,

from the mountains and the plains

below,

young and old, workers, peasants, and the toiling

tenant farmers fight for freedom with Uncle Ho.

Ho-ho, Ho Chi Minh. Ho-ho, Ho Chi

Minh. Now, Ho Chi

Minh was a deep sea sailor. He served

his time out on the seven seas.

Work and hardship were part of his early

education, exploitation his ABC.

Ho-ho, Ho Chi Minh. Ho-ho, Ho Chi

Minh.

Now, Ho Chi Minh came back from

sailing,

and he looked

on his native land. Saw the want

and the hunger of the Indochinese people, foreign

soldiers on every hand. Ho-ho, Ho Chi

Minh. Ho-ho, Ho Chi Minh.

Now, Ho Chi Minh went to the mountains,

and he trained a determined band.

Heroes all who had sworn to free the Indochinese people

and drive invaders from the land. Ho-ho, Ho

Chi Minh. Ho-ho, Ho Chi Minh. Forty

men became a hundred,

a hundred thousand. And Ho Chi

Minh forged and tempered the

army of the Indochinese people, freedom's army of Viet

Minh. Ho-ho, Ho Chi Minh. Ho-ho, Ho Chi

Minh. Every soldier is a

farmer.

Comes the evening, and he grabs his hoe.

Comes the morning, he slings his rifle on his

shoulder. This the army of Uncle Ho.

Ho-ho, Ho Chi Minh. Ho-ho, Ho Chi

Minh. From the jungles

and the mountains, from the rice

lands and the plain of reeds,

march the men and the women of the Indochinese

army, planting freedom with victory seeds.

Ho-ho, Ho Chi Minh. Ho-ho, Ho Chi

Minh. From

Vietnam to the Saigon Delta,

march the armies of Viet

Minh.

And the wind stirs the banners of the Indochinese

people, peace and freedom and Ho Chi Minh.

Ho-ho, Ho Chi Minh. Ho-ho, Ho Chi

Minh. Ho!