Hmong autobiography lyrics
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| Title | 30 Year Secret |
| Artist | Delicious Venom |
| Album | nothing entered |
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[Male] :
Thirty years of war
Persecuted and scorned
Behind enemy lines
A small child is born
What will he live for
Fighting for the rest of his life
Gunshots, chemical bombs or sliced with a knife
Shrapnel within flesh
Children poisoned to death
Defend the villages
Soldiers killed in combat
A contract that\\\’s been cracked
Split up, attacked with no tracks
And they only fight back
For survival reasons
And they wish to the sky
For the will to keep breathing
The jungles are a prison
Scarred into our visions
Now I want you to listen
\\\’Cause our people have risen
Starving for any meal
They kept it concealed
Their blood spills all over the rice fileds
Forreal
A tragic massacre
Of tears and emotions
That can flood the Mekong River
To be an ocean
Our people are suffering
And time
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The Song Poet
Description
In the Hmong tradition, picture song lyricist recounts picture story tactic his generate, their representation and tragedies, joys countryside losses; extemporizing or representation on clan tales, explicit keeps depiction past subsist, invokes rendering spirits flourishing the native land, and records courtships, births, weddings, very last wishes.
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Hmong Songs of Memory
Book
The Hmong have developed an astonishingly rich culture over millennia as they migrated from their source in Northeast China, moving from mountaintop to mountaintop along the great rivers of China to the foothills of Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, and Myanmar, and, presently, to the four corners of the world.
An agrarian people keenly attuned to the cycles of seasons and the wheel of life, the Hmong have created a complex, all-encompassing belief system rooted in animism, where everything in nature possesses a soul and the universe is organized by supernatural powers. Frequent rituals, ceremonies, and festivals are performed throughout the year to maintain harmony between the world of man and the realm of spirits, be they benevolent or malevolent.
The medium propelling these rites is music, which springs from a vast repository of songs, chants, invocations, and instrumental pieces that chart the human experience. This soundscape pervades daily life as it does sacred enactments. For a culture that historically had no literary tradition, music also serves as the most powerful channel for transmitting everything the Hmong know about their inner and outer lives, linking the first ancestors with present generations and beyond.
The Hmong Songs of Mem