capo 1
A thousand [G] years of Chinese reign.
A hundred [D] years of French domain.
Twenty [Am] years fighting brothers each [G] day,
A mother's [Em] fate, left for her child,
A mother's [D] fate, a land [G] defiled.
A thousand [G] years of Chinese reign.
A hundred [D] years of French domain.
Twenty [Am] years fighting brothers each [G] day,
A mother's [Em] fate, bones left to dry,
And graves that [D] fill a mountain [G] high.
Chorus :
Teach your [G] children to speak their minds.
Don't let [C] them forget their [G] kind
[C] Never forget their [G] kind, from old Viet [D] land.
Mother wait [G] for your kids to come home,
Kids who [C] now so far away [G] roam.
[C] Children of one [C] father, be reconciled.
A thousand [G] years of Chinese reign.
A hundred [D] years of French domain.
Twenty [Am] years fighting brothers each [G] day,
A mother's [Em] fate, our fields so dead,
And rows of [D] homes in flames so [G] red.
A thousand [G] years of Chinese reign.
A hundred [D] years of French domain.
Twenty [Am] years fighting brothers each [G] day,
A mother's [Em] fate, her kids half-breeds
Her kids filled [D] with disloyal [G] ty.
