Marcel Cartier - The Guns of the Viet Minh lyrics

[Verse 1] You wanna know about sacrifice? Look at Vietnam The steadfast struggle from Hanoi to Saigon The brains of Ho Chi Minh The strength of the ma** The peasants who rebelled against the occupying lands The Japanese were gone The French tried again Until they came up against the guns of Viet Minh League of independence That handed a loss Of epic proportions to the French in the form Of 1945 battle of Dien Phu From that point forward they looked for an escape route Just like Korea The country was partitioned New western power with a globalized mission Was now the USA, they took the southern half for the wealthy land owners who opposed uncle Ho's path The widespread reform "Land to the tiller" The split was untenable it had to get realer [Chorus] Let the struggle of (intelligible) begin Like a fire being struck by the wind While the peasants lead the people again Behind the guns of the Viet Minh Vietnam Vietnam Vietnam Vietnam will win [Verse 2] Resistance had grown in the south in the 50's US puppet government was threatened to be swiftly Overthrown by fighters who would then form The National Liberation Front to take Saigon U.S. rulers in a frenzy and panic Start to send soldiers into the battle But the problem was these troops didn't have A tenth of the willpower that their opponents had One American would die for every twenty of The communist guerrillas instilled with love And a duty to their homeland to unify it Leadership of general Giap behind it From the Tet Offensive to the Fall of Saigon The 30th of April time to say "so long" To a very dark history of subjugation At last a free and independent nation [Chorus] Let the struggle of (intelligible) begin Like a fire being struck by the wind While the peasants lead the people again Behind the guns of the Viet Minh Vietnam Vietnam Vietnam Vietnam will win