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Hello Vietnam

One day I'll touch your soil. One day I'll finally know your soul.

Vietnamese Lunar New Year has begun so here is a clip of Valerie and Sophie Moen, age 10 and 8, of White Bear Lake singing "Hello Vietnam" bringing the warmth, beauty and culture of Vietnam to Minnesota during this cold season.

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Tell me all about this name, that is difficult to say.
It was given me the day I was born.

Want to know about the stories of the empire of old.
My eyes say more of me than what you dare to say.

All I know of you is all the sights of war.
A film by Coppola, the helicopter's roar.

One day I'll touch your soil.
One day I'll finally know your soul.
One day I'll come to you.
To say hello... Vietnam.

Tell me all about my colour, my hair and my little feet
That have carried me every mile of the way.

Want to see your house, your streets. Show me all I do not know.
Wooden sampans, floatings markets, light of gold.

All I know of you is the sights of war.
A film by Coppola, the helicopter's roar.

One day I'll touch your soil.
One day I'll finally know your soul.
One day I'll come to you.
To say hello... Vietnam.

And Buddha's made of stone watch over me.
My dreams they lead me through the fields of rice.
In prayer, in the light...I see my kin.
I touch my tree, my roots, my begin...

One day I'll touch your soil.
One day I'll finally know your soul.
One day I'll come to you.
To say hello... Vietnam.

One day I'll walk your soil
One day I'll finally know my soul
One day I'll come to you.
To say hello...Vietnam
To say hello...Vietnam
To say xin chao...Vietnam.

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Two girls in conical straw hats in front of a pagoda
Girl with straw hat

One day I'll walk your soil
One day I'll finally know my soul
One day I'll come to you.
To say hello...Vietnam
To say xin chao...Vietnam.

Two girls in conical straw hats in front of a boat by a lake

Biographical Details

Story Subject: Family

Two women, two young girls and a man smiling
Two girls in front of a brick wall

Story Themes: Children, Family, Music, Return to Vietnam, Vietnamese-American

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