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List of songs about the Vietnam War

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This is a list of songs concerning, revolving around, or directly referring to the Vietnam War, or to the Vietnam War's after-effects. For a more complete listing see "Vietnam on Record",[1] and the Vietnam War Song Project.[2]

This is a dynamic list of songs and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries.

Some popular songs of this variety include:

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  • "The 'A' Team" by Staff Sgt. Barry Sadler
  • "Agent Orange" by Grinder
  • "Agent Orange" by Sodom
  • "Agent Orange Song" by Maan Shah
  • "Alice's Restaurant Massacree" by Arlo Guthrie
  • "All My Children of the Sun" by Pete Seeger
  • "Am I Ever Gonna See My Baby Again" by The Sweet Inspirations
  • "Amerika the Brutal" by Six Feet Under
  • "America, Fuck Yeah" by Trey Parker
  • "American Woman" by Guess Who
  • "An American Draft Dodger in Thunder Bay" by Sam Roberts
  • "Anh hùng đâu phải cứ mày râu" – Vũ Trọng Hối (about women who fight against the US army and the ARVN)
  • "Anh phi công ơi!" – Xuân Giao (a children's song about communist airmen protecting Vietnam)
  • "Anh Quân Bưu Vui Tính" – Đàm Thanh (about communist military postal men)
  • "Anh lái xe đường dây" – Nguyễn Hữu Tuấn (about the couragement of communist transport driver driving on ropes to supply for communist troops)
  • "Anh vẫn hành quân" – Huy Du (about communist troops still marching towards the battlefields for the national reunification despite attacks and bombardment from the US army and the ARVN)
  • "Another Christmas Without My Son" by Reverend Oris Mays
  • "Artefucked" by Nargaroth
  • "Article IV" by Good Riddance (About US soldiers during The Tet-Offensive fighting for survival and protesters back in the states)

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  • "Ca Dao Mẹ" (Mother's Lullaby) by Trịnh Công Sơn [about a mother's sacrifices during wartime]
  • "Cánh đồng hòa bình" - Trịnh Công Sơn
  • "Câu hò bên bến Hiền Lương" – music: Hoàng Hiệp, lyric: Hoàng Hiệp – Đằng Giao (about the wish for the national reunification)
  • "Chào Anh Giải Phóng Quân" – Hoàng Vân (celebration for the PLAF troops)
  • "Chào Anh Giải Phóng Quân, Chào Mùa Xuân Đại Thắng" – Hoàng Vân Trình (celebration for the PLAF troops and the national reunification)
  • "Chính chúng ta phải nói" - Trịnh Công Sơn
  • "Chú Giải phóng quân cháu xin tặng chú một bài ca" – Vũ Thanh (a children's song for celebration to the PLAF troops)
  • "Chúng ta đã đứng dậy" – Tôn Thất Lập (about the uprising of South Vietnamese youth against the ARVN and the US army)
  • "Chiếc gậy Trường Sơn" – Phạm Tuyên (about the determination of communist troops on liberating South Vietnam)
  • "Chiến sĩ Rađa trên chốt biên thùy" – Thuận Yến (about the fighting of communist radar soldiers)
  • "Chim hòa bình" – (about the hope on peace)
  • "Chờ nhìn quê hương sáng chói" - Trịnh Công Sơn
  • "Chú bộ đội" – Hoàng Hà (about communist troops in Vietnam war)
  • "Chưa hết giặc ta chưa về" – Huy Du (about the determination of communist troops on destroying the enemy)
  • "Chưa mất niềm tin" - Trịnh Công Sơn
  • "Chưa mòn giấc mơ" - Trịnh Công Sơn
  • "Cô Gái Mở Đường"-Xuân Giao (about communist female army engineers)
  • "Cô Gái Pa – Kô" – Huy Thục (about minority ethnic girls supporting communist troops)
  • "Cô gái Sài Gòn đi tải đạn" – Lư Nhất Vũ (about Saigon girls supporting communist troops)
  • "Cô Gái vót chông" – Hoàng Hiệp (about minority ethnic girls supporting communist troops)
  • "Cho Một Người Vừa Nằm Xuống" – Trịnh Công Sơn
  • "Cambodia" by Kim Wilde
  • "Camouflage" by Stan Ridgway
  • "Carried by Six" by Internal Void
  • "Charlie Boy" by the Lumineers
  • "Charlie Don't Surf" by The Clash
  • "Charlie Freak" by Steely Dan
  • "Child in Time" by Deep Purple
  • "Cho Một Người Vừa Nằm Xuống" (For a Person Just Fallen Down) by Trịnh Công Sơn [dedicated to Lưu Kim Cương, a friend of the author who died in battle. Who is a Republic of Vietnam Air Force pilot.]
  • "Christmas in Vietnam" by Johnny and Jon
  • "Chuyện hai người lính" (Story about two soldiers) by Phạm Duy [1968, about two soldiers on different front lines who "kill each other because of love of Vietnam"]
  • "Clean Cut Kid" by Bob Dylan (tells how a normal American boy is changed to a fierce fighting boy by the use of drugs, pills, and alcohol)
  • "Coming Home Soldier" by Bobby Vinton
  • "Commando" by The Ramones
  • "Compared to What" by Gene McDaniels
  • "Compulsory Hero" by 1927 [deals with conscription in Australia during the Vietnam War]
  • "Copperhead Road" by Steve Earle
  • "Cops of the World" by Phil Ochs
  • "Cowboys on Horses with Wings" by Hoyt Axton
  • "Cousin Randy" by Infectious Grooves
  • "Cream Puff War" by The Grateful Dead
  • "Cruel War" by Peter, Paul and Mary
  • "Cry for Freedom" by The Starfires
  • "Cùng anh tiến quân trên đường dài" – Huy Du và Xuân Sách (about Nguyễn Viêt Xuân, a hero in fighting against the US)
  • "Cùng hành quân giữa mùa xuân" – Hoàng Hà (about happiness, beliefs on victories of communist troops on Ho Chi Minh trail)

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  • "Năm Anh Em Trên Một Chiếc Xe Tăng" – Doãn Nho (about communist tankmen)
  • "Ngày dài trên quê hương" - Trịnh Công Sơn
  • "Ngày Mai Chúng Mình Ra Trận" – Nhạc: Hoài Tố Hạnh, lời: Trần Đăng Khoa (nhà thơ) (about the feeling, believes in victory and the national reunification of Vietnamese communist youth, who was to join the war)
  • "Ngày mai đây bình yên" - Trịnh Công Sơn
  • "Ngủ đi con" - Trịnh Công Sơn
  • "Ngụ ngôn của mùa Đông" - Trịnh Công Sơn
  • "Người con gái Việt Nam" - Trịnh Công Sơn
  • "Người mẹ Bàn Cờ" – Nhạc: Trần Long Ẩn, thơ: Nguyễn Kim Ngân (about Vietnamese mothers wanting peace)
  • "Người mẹ miền Nam tay không thắng giặc" – Thuận Yến (about South Vietnamese mothers fighting against the US army and the ARVN)
  • "Người mẹ Ô Lý" - Trịnh Công Sơn
  • "Những ai còn là Việt nam" - Trịnh Công Sơn
  • "Những giọt máu trổ bông" - Trịnh Công Sơn
  • "Nhưng hôm nay" - Trịnh Công Sơn
  • "Napalm in the Morning" by Sodom
  • "The Nang, the Front, the Bush and the Shit" by El-P
  • "Near Thái Nguyên Bridge" by Alexander Gusev
  • "Như có Bác Hồ trong ngày vui đại thắng" (Uncle Ho likely was Here On the Day of Victory) by Phạm Tuyên (about the feelings that Ho Chi Minh being appear on the national reunification day).
  • "Nối Vòng Tay Lớn" (Joining Hands) by Trịnh Công Sơn [expresses the author's wish for peace and national solidarity. This song was played on the radio after the communist forces took over Saigon's radio station during the Fall of Saigon.]
  • "None of Your Doing" by Steppenwolf
  • "No One to Follow" by Anvil
  • "Not Now John" by Pink Floyd
  • "A Nurse in the U.S. Army" by Connie Francis
  • "Napalm Sticks to Kids" by unknown US servicemen, first recording by First of the Ninth Chorus
  • "Những Bông Hoa Trên Tuyến Lửa" – Đỗ Trung Quân (about the happiness of communist troops on fighting against the US and the Republic of Vietnam)
  • "Những ngày hội đấu tranh" – (about the uprising against the US and the Republic of Vietnam)

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  • "Ta là chiến sĩ Giải Phóng quân" – Văn Lưu và Triều Dâng (about the pride of being the PLAF troops fighting against the US and the Republic of Vietnam)
  • "Ta đã thấy gì trong đêm nay" – Trịnh Công Sơn
  • "Ta đi dựng cờ" - Trịnh Công Sơn
  • "Take Good Care" by Tony Mason
  • "Take the Star Out of the Window" by John Prine
  • "Talking Vietnam" by Phil Ochs
  • "Talking Vietnam Potluck Blues" by Tom Paxton
  • "Tame the Lion" by Emitt Rhodes
  • "Ta quyết phải sống" - Trịnh Công Sơn
  • "Ta Phải Thấy Mặt Trời" (We Must See the Sun) by Trịnh Công Sơn
  • "Thank You" by the Bobkatz
  • "That Black Wall" by Danny Barnes
  • "Tên lửa ta đáng rất hay" – Huy Thục (about communist antiaircraft missile soldiers against the US airforce and the ARVN)
  • "The Willing Conscript" by Tom Paxton
  • "Theme for an American Hero" by Chip Taylor
  • "Theme for an Imaginary Western" by Jack Bruce
  • "There Won't Be Any Snow (Christmas in the Jungle)" by Derrik Roberts
  • "There's a Wall in Washington" by Iris DeMent
  • "This is Radio Clash" by The Clash
  • "Three-Five-Zero-Zero" from the musical Hair
  • "Through the Ages" by Bolt Thrower
  • "Tình Ca Người Mất Trí" (Love Song of Someone Who Lost Their Mind) by Trịnh Công Sơn [about women with lovers who are soldiers]
  • "This Ain't Nothing" by Craig Morgan
  • "This Cowboy's Hat" by Chris Ledoux [talks about his nephew dying in 1969 in Vietnam]
  • "Tiến bước dưới quân kỳ" – Doãn Nho
  • "Tiến lên chiến sĩ đồng bào" – Huy Thục
  • "Tiến Về Sài Gòn" – Lưu Hữu Phước (marching toward Saigon of communist troops)
  • "Tiếng nói Hà Nội" – Nhạc: Văn An; Lời: Cảnh Trà (about Hanoi's voice on the hope towards national peace)
  • "Tiếng Đàn Ta Lư" – Huy Thục (the sounds of minority ethnic supporting communist troops)
  • "Tin tưởng ca" (the beliefs on national peace and reunification of Vietnamese)
  • "Tình ca" – Hoàng Hiệp (about the love of a communist couple in the war)
  • "Tình ca của người mất trí" - Trịnh Công Sơn
  • "Tình nghĩa Bắc Nam" – (about the love between North and South Vietnamese)
  • "Tiếng hát những đêm không ngủ" – Phạm Tuyên
  • "Tiếng Hát Người Nữ Du Kích Củ Chi" – Lưu Cầu (nhạc sĩ) (about female communist guerilla at Củ Chi)
  • "Tiểu đoàn 307" – Nguyễn Hữu Trí (about the 307 Battalion of the PLAF)
  • "To Susan on the West Coast Waiting" by Donovan
  • "Tôi sẽ đi thăm" - Trịnh Công Sơn
  • "Travelin' Soldier" by Bruce Robison (popularized by the Dixie Chicks)
  • "Train to Vietnam" by The Rudies
  • "Trooper's Lament" by Staff Sgt. Barry Sadler
  • "Trường Sơn Đông – Trường Sơn Tây" by Hoàng Hiệp [from a poem by Phạm Tiến Duật, about the love and the life of communist troops on the Ho Chi Minh trail.]
  • "The Road of Life from Hanoi" by unknown Soviet military transportation officer
  • "Thề quyết bảo vệ Tổ quốc" (Swear to defend the country) – Huy Du (Chinese version "誓死保卫祖国" also available in the late 1960s)
  • "Thuyền em đi trong đêm" Nguyễn Phú Yên
  • "Tổ quốc ơi đã ta nghe" – La Hữu Vang
  • "Tôi biết tôi yêu" - Trịnh Công Sơn
  • "Tôi Là Lê Anh Nuôi" – Trần Hiếu (about cooks in communist armies)
  • "Tuổi trẻ Việt Nam" - Trịnh Công Sơn
  • "Từ mặt đất thân yêu" – Tô Hải (about communist airmen fighting against the US army and the ARVN)
  • "Tự nguyện" – Trương Quốc Khánh (about voluntary spirits of delication for Vietnam of communist youth)
  • "Trên dòng sông lịch sử" – Nguyễn Nam
  • "Trên đỉnh Trường Sơn ta hát" – Huy Du (the happiness of communist troops on Truong Son mountains)

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References

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  2. ^ Brummer, Justin. "Vietnam War Song Project (VWSP)". RYM. Retrieved 20 August 2019.
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