music

I've been reading Vincent Bevin's If We Burn (it's online as a pdf if you search for it), and this song was mentioned in a chapter about Chilean protests in 2019, though they updated the lyrics to make them "more relevant" or some cringe shit, this original song is so beautiful, here's a rough english translation of the lyrics:

The right to live
poet Ho Chi Minh,
who struck from Vietnam
all of humanity.
No cannon will wipe out
the furrow of your rice paddy.
The right to live in peace.

Indochina is the place
beyond the wide sea,
where they ruin the flower
with genocide and napalm.
The moon is an explosion
that blows out all the clamor.
The right to live in peace.

Uncle Ho, our song
is fire of pure love,
it's a dovecote dove,
olive from an olive grove.
It is the universal song
chain that will triumph,
the right to live in peace.

The internet says this music is "Nueva canción" but this song is really tickling my brain with the 1960s psychedelic folk rock vibes. I feel a bit silly sitting here listening music I can't understand the lyrics to, but gosh it's pretty.

Hope you're all well, I am on hiatus, and tied up with irl organising (gosh what a mess).