ベトナムの空 (Vietnam Sky) (高石ともや) (Tomoya Takaishi)

Vietnam War, Japanese records: https://rateyourmusic.com/list/JBrummer/vietnam-war-japanese-songs/
Double-sided Vietnam War single (URC # 0014) by Tomoya Takaishi, born on 9 December 1941 in Uryu, Hokkaido, Japan. The first song "ホー・チ・ミンのバラード" ("Ballad of Ho Chi Minh") was a Japanese adapted version of the well-known and widely covered song by Ewan MacColl. Japanese lyrics by Hidaka Yoshi.

The song "ベトナムの空" ("Vietnam Sky") composed by songwriter 日高義 (Yoshi Hidaka), also earlier released by マイク眞木 [Mike Maki] in 1966: 波と木彫りのクマ / ベトナムの空. Itt captured 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 Deep 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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