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.