La ballade des grands hommes

 A un grand homme de notre temps, le Président des Etats-Unis Donald Trump  :-)

The Ballad Of Ho Chi Minh - Ewan MacColl

 

Far away across the ocean
Far beyond the sea’s eastern rim
Lives a man who is father of the Indo-Chinese people
And his name it is Ho Chi Minh

Ho, Ho, Ho Chi Minh
Ho, Ho, Ho Chi Minh

From VietBac to the SaiGon Delta
From the mountains and plains below
Young and old workers, peasants and the toiling tenant farmers
Fight for freedom with Uncle Ho

Ho, Ho, Ho Chi Minh
Ho, Ho, Ho Chi Minh

Now Ho Chi Minh was a deep sea sailor
He served his time out on the seven seas
Work and hardship were part of his early education
Exploitation his ABC

Ho, Ho, Ho Chi Minh
Ho, Ho, Ho Chi Minh

Now Ho Chi Minh came back from sailing
And he looked out on his native land
Saw the want and the hunger of the Indo-Chinese people
Foreign soldiers on every hand.

Ho, Ho, Ho Chi Minh
Ho, Ho, Ho Chi Minh

Now Ho Chi Minh went to the mountains
And he trained a determined band
Heroes all, who had sworn to liberate the Indo-Chinese people
Drive invaders from the land.

Ho, Ho, Ho Chi Minh
Ho, Ho, Ho Chi Minh

Fourteen men became a hundred
A hundred thousand and Ho Chi Minh
Forged and tempered the army of the Indo-Chinese people
Freedom’s Army of Viet Minh.

Ho, Ho, Ho Chi Minh
Ho, Ho, Ho Chi Minh

Every soldier is a farmer
Comes the evening and he grabs his hoe
Comes the morning he swings his rifle on his shoulder
This the army of Uncle Ho.

Ho, Ho, Ho Chi Minh
Ho, Ho, Ho Chi Minh

From the jungles and the mountains
From the ricelands and the Plain of Reeds
March the men and the women of the Indo-Chinese Army
Planting freedom with vict’ry seeds

Ho, Ho, Ho Chi Minh
Ho, Ho, Ho Chi Minh

From VietBac to the SaiGon Delta
Marched the armies of Viet Minh
And the wind stirs the banners of the Indo-Chinese people
Peace and freedom and Ho Chi Minh

http://www.folkpolitik.one/?p=2930

----------------------------------

And "The Big Joe Blues" :

“I’m singing about old Joe, cruel Joe./ He ruled with an iron hand./He put an end to the dreams/Of so many in every land./He had a chance to make/A brand new start for the human race./Instead he set it back/Right in the same nasty place./I got the Big Joe Blues./ (Keep your mouth shut or you will die fast.)/I got the Big Joe Blues./ (Do this job, no questions asked.)/I got the Big Joe Blues.”

https://www.newstatesman.com/society/2007/09/joe-blues-folk-music-seeger