Mỗi Ngày Vũ Như Cẩn

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

chào chieubuon, và lính đại ca.

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Janis Joplin - Maybe – 1975

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cM0T9fumD5k
Maybe
Oh if I could pray and I try, dear,
You might come back home, home to me.

Maybe
Whoa, if I could ever hold your little hand
Oh you might understand.
Maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe, yeah.

Maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe dear
I guess I might have done something wrong,
Honey I'd be glad to admit it.
Oh, come on home to me!
Honey maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe yeah.

Well I know that it just doesn't ever seem to matter, baby,
Oh honey, when I go out or what I'm trying to do,
Can't you see I'm still left here
And I'm holding on in needing you.

Please, please, please, please,
Oh won't you reconsider babe.
Now come on, I said come back,
Won't you come back to me!

Maybe dear, oh maybe, maybe, maybe,
Let me help you show me how.
Honey, maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe,
Maybe, maybe, maybe, yeah,
Maybe, maybe, maybe, yeah.
Ooh!

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Simon & Garfunkel - The Boxer – 1970

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3LFML_pxlY

I am just a poor boy
Though my story's seldom told
I have squandered my resistance
For a pocketful of mumbles
Such are promises
All lies and jest
Still, a man hears what he wants to hear
And disregards the rest

When I left my home and my family
I was no more than a boy
In the company of strangers
In the quiet of a railway station
Running scared
Laying low, seeking out the poorer quarters
Where the ragged people go
Looking for the places only they would know

Lie-la-lie...

Asking only workman's wages
I come looking for a job
But I get no offers
Just a come-on from the whores on Seventh Avenue
I do declare there were times when I was so lonesome
I took some comfort there

Lie-la-lie...

Then I'm laying out my winter clothes
And wishing I was gone
Going home
Where the New York City winters aren't bleeding me
Leading me
Going home

In the clearing stands a boxer
And a fighter by his trade
And he carries the remainders
Of every glove that laid him down
And cut him till he cried out
In his anger and his shame
“I am leaving, I am leaving”
But the fighter still remains

Lie-la-lie...

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

chào chi phuongvy,

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Judy Collins - Send In The Clowns – 1972

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8L6KGuTr9TI

Isn't it rich?
Are we a pair?
Me here at last on the ground,
You in mid-air..
Where are the clowns?

Isn't it bliss?
Don't you approve?
One who keeps tearing around,
One who can't move...
Where are the clowns?
Send in the clowns.

Just when I'd stopped opening doors,
Finally knowing the one that I wanted was yours.
Making my entrance again with my usual flair
Sure of my lines...
No one is there.

Don't you love farce?
My fault, I fear.
I thought that you'd want what I want...
Sorry, my dear!
And where are the clowns
Send in the clowns
Don't bother, they're here.

Isn't it rich?
Isn't it queer?
Losing my timing this late in my career.
And where are the clowns?
There ought to be clowns...
Well, maybe next year.

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Just My Imagination - The Temptations – 1971

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5Z9-QCmZyw

Each day through my window I watch her as she passes by
I say to myself, you're such a lucky guy
To have a girl like her is truly a dream come true
Out of all the fellas in the world, she belongs to you

But it was just my 'magination, running away with me
It was just my 'magination, running away with me

(Soon) Soon we'll be married and raise a family. (Oh, yeah)
A cozy little home out in the country with two children, maybe three
I tell you, I can visualize it all. This couldn't be a dream, for too real it all seems

But it was just my 'magination, once again
Running away with me
Tell you it was just my 'magination
Running away with me

[Paul:] Every night on my knees I pray

Dear Lord, hear my plea
Don't ever let another take her love from me
Or I will surely die. Hmm

(Her love is) heavenly
When her arms enfold me
I hear a tender rhapsody
But in reality, she doesn't even know me

Just my 'magination, once again
Running away with me
Oh, tell you it was just my 'magination
Running away with me

I never met her but I can't forget her
Just my 'magination
Ooo yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Running away with me

Ooo, just my 'magination running away with me
She's in my mind and hard to find
Just my 'magination

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

the guess who- american woman – 1969

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkqfpkTTy2w


American woman, stay away from me
American woman, mama, let me be
Don't come a-hangin' around my door
I don't wanna see your face no more
I got more important things to do
Than spend my time growin' old with you
Now woman, I said stay away
American woman, listen what I say

American woman, get away from me
American woman, mama, let me be
Don't come a-knockin' around my door
Don't wanna see your shadow no more
Coloured lights can hypnotize
Sparkle someone else's eyes
Now woman, I said get away
American woman, listen what I say, hey

American woman, said get away
American woman, listen what I say
Don't come a-hangin' around my door
Don't wanna see your face no more
I don't need your war machines
I don't need your ghetto scenes
Coloured lights can hypnotize
Sparkle someone else's eyes
Now woman, get away from me
American woman, mama, let me be

Go, gotta get away, gotta get away
Now go go go
I'm gonna leave you, woman
Gonna leave you, woman
Bye-bye
Bye-bye
Bye-bye
Bye-bye
You're no good for me
I'm no good for you
Gonna look you right in the eye
Tell you what I'm gonna do
You know I'm gonna leave
You know I'm gonna go
You know I'm gonna leave
You know I'm gonna go, woman
I'm gonna leave ya, woman
Goodbye, American woman...

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Simon & Garfunkel - Mrs. Robinson – 1968


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9C1BCAgu2I8

And here's to you, Mrs. Robinson
Jesus loves you more than you will know, wo wo wo
God bless you please, Mrs. Robinson
Heaven holds a place for those who pray, hey hey hey
Hey hey hey

We'd like to know a little bit about you for our files
We'd like to help you learn to help yourself
Look around you, all you see are sympathetic eyes
Stroll around the grounds until you feel at home

And here's to you, Mrs. Robinson
Jesus loves you more than you will know, wo wo wo
God bless you please, Mrs. Robinson
Heaven holds a place for those who pray, hey hey hey
Hey hey hey

Hide it in a hiding place where no one ever goes
Put it in your pantry with your cupcakes
It's a little secret, just the Robinsons' affair
Most of all, you've got to hide it from the kids

Coo coo ca-choo, Mrs. Robinson
Jesus loves you more than you will know, wo wo wo
God bless you please, Mrs. Robinson
Heaven holds a place for those who pray, hey hey hey
Hey hey hey

Sitting on a sofa on a Sunday afternoon
Going to the candidates' debate
Laugh about it, shout about it
When you've got to choose
Every way you look at it you lose

Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?
A nation turns its lonely eyes to you, wo wo wo
What's that you say, Mrs. Robinson
'Joltin Joe' has left and gone away, hey hey hey
Hey hey hey

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Trio Los Panchos - Quizas, quizas, quizas. – 1947


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdJ0KLJ3PmQ
Siempre que te pregunto,
Que cuando, como y donde,
Tu siempre me respondes;
Quizas, quizas, quizas.

Y asi pasan los dias,
Y yo desesperando,
Y tu, tu, contestando;
Quizas, quizas, quizas.

Estas perdiendo el tiempo,
Pensando, pensando;
Por lo que mas tu quieras,
Hasta cuando, hasta cuando.

Y asi pasan los dias,
Y yo desesperando,
Y tu, tu contestando;
Quizas, quizas, quizas.

Siempre que te pregunto,
Que cuando, como y donde,
Tu siempre me respondes;
Quizas, quizas, quizas.

Y asi pasan los dias,
Y yo hay desesperando,
Y tu, tu contestando;
Quizas, quizas, quizas.

Estas perdiendo el tiempo,
Pensando, pensando;
Por lo que mas tu quieras,
Hasta cuando, hasta cuando.

Hay, y asi pasan los dias,
Y yo hay desesperando,
Y tu, tu, tu contestando;
Quizas, quizas, quizas.
Quizas, quizas, quizas.
Quizas, quizas, quizas.

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Julio Iglesias - La Cumparsita – original 1916


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bB9xXGzAdT4

Si supieras
Que aún dentro de mi alma
Conservo aquel cariño
Que tuve para ti...!
Quién sabe, si supieras
Que nunca te he olvidado...!
Volviendo a tu pasado
Te acordarás de mí...

Los amigos ya no vienen
Ni siquiera a visitarme
Nadie quiere consolarme
En mi aflicción
Desde el día que te fuiste
Siento angustias en mi pecho
Decí, percanta, qué has hecho
De mi pobre corazón!

Si supieras...
Que aún dentro de mi alma
Conservo aquel cariño
Que tuve para ti...!
Quién sabe, si supieras
Todo lo que te he amado
Volviendo a tu pasado
Te acordarás de mí...

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

chào song thuong

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MARIACHIS.......la cucaracha – không lời – 1934


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQLCJsIof8s

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Los Paraguayos - Cu-Cu-Rru-Cu-Cu-Paloma – 1954


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=li0gQwOoCgk

Dicen que por las noches
no más se le iba en puro llorar;
dicen que no comía,
no más se le iba en puro tomar.
Juran que el mismo cielo
se estremecía al oír su llanto,
cómo sufrió por ella,
y hasta en su muerte la fue llamando:
Ay, ay, ay, ay, ay cantaba,
ay, ay, ay, ay, ay gemía,
Ay, ay, ay, ay, ay cantaba,
de pasión mortal moría.
Que una paloma triste
muy de mañana le va a cantar
a la casita sola
con sus puertitas de par en par;
juran que esa paloma
no es otra cosa más que su alma,
que todavía espera
A que regrese la desdichada.
Cucurrucucú paloma, cucurrucucú no llores.
Las piedras jamás, paloma,
¿qué van a saber de amores?
Cucurrucucú, cucurrucucú,
Cucurrucucú, cucurrucucú,
cucurrucucú, paloma, ya no le llores

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Ella Fitzgerald - Cheek To Cheek – jazz- 1956


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzSxvyX3QfA

Heaven, I'm in heaven
And my heart beats so that I can hardly speak
And I seem to find the happiness I seek
When we're out together dancing cheek to cheek
Yes, heaven, I'm in heaven
And the cares that hung around me through the week
Seem to vanish like a gambler's lucky streak
When we're out together dancing cheek to cheek
Oh I'd love to climb a mountain
And reach the highest peak
But it doesn't thrill me half as much
As dancing cheek to cheek
Oh I'd love to go out fishing
In a river or a creek
But I don't enjoy it half as much
As dancing cheek to cheek
Now, mama, dance with me
I want my arms about you
The charms about you
Will carry me through, yes

Heaven, I'm in heaven
And my heart beats so that I can hardly speak
And I seem to find the happiness I seek
When we're out together dancing cheek to cheek
(Sing it Ella, swing it)

[Ella]
Heaven, I'm in heaven
And my heart beats so that I can hardly speak
And I seem to find the happiness I seek
When we're out together dancing cheek to cheek

Heaven, I'm in heaven
And the cares that hung around me through the week
Seem to vanish like a gambler's lucky streak
When we're out together dancing cheek to cheek
Oh I'd love to climb a mountain
And reach the highest peak
But it doesn't thrill me half as much
As dancing cheek to cheek
Oh I love to go out fishing
In a river or a creek
But I don't enjoy it half as much
As dancing cheek to cheek
Come on and dance with me
I want my arm about you
The charm about you
Will carry me through to

Heaven, I'm in heaven
And my heart beats so that I can hardly speak
And I seem to find the happiness I seek
When we're out together dancing cheek to cheek

[Louis & Ella]
Yes, dance with me
I want my arm(s) about you
The charm(s) about you
Will carry me through to

Heaven, I'm in heaven
And my heart beats so that I can hardly speak
And I seem to find the happiness I seek
When we're out together dancing cheek to cheek
Cheek to cheek
Cheek to cheek
Cheek to cheek

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Fernando ( 1976 ) - ABBA


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4STeLcuj8Hg

Can you hear the drums Fernando?
I remember long ago another starry night like this
In the firelight Fernando
You were humming to yourself and softly strumming your guitar
I could hear the distant drums
And sounds of bugle calls were coming from afar

They were closer now Fernando
Every hour every minute seemed to last eternally
I was so afraid Fernando
We were young and full of life and none of us prepared to die
And I'm not ashamed to say
The roar of guns and cannons almost made me cry

There was something in the air that night
The stars were bright, Fernando
They were shining there for you and me
For liberty, Fernando
Though we never thought that we could lose
There's no regret
If I had to do the same again
I would, my friend, Fernando

Now we're old and grey Fernando
And since many years I haven't seen a rifle in your hand
Can you hear the drums Fernando?
Do you still recall the fateful night we crossed the Rio Grande?
I can see it in your eyes
How proud you were to fight for freedom in this land

There was something in the air that night
The stars were bright, Fernando
They were shining there for you and me
For liberty, Fernando
Though we never thought that we could lose
There's no regret
If I had to do the same again
I would, my friend, Fernando

There was something in the air that night
The stars were bright, Fernando
They were shining there for you and me
For liberty, Fernando
Though we never thought that we could lose
There's no regret
If I had to do the same again
I would, my friend, Fernando
Yes, if I had to do the same again
I would, my friend, Fernando...

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Janis Joplin - Little Girl Blue (blue music - original 1935)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rX8hOw31wCQ

Sit there, hmm, count your fingers.
What else, what else is there to do ?
Oh and I know how you feel,
I know you feel that you're through.
Oh wah wah ah sit there, hmm, count,
Ah, count your little fingers,
My unhappy oh little girl, little girl blue, yeah.

Oh sit there, oh count those raindrops
Oh, feel 'em falling down, oh honey all around you.
Honey don't you know it's time,
I feel it's time,
Somebody told you 'cause you got to know
That all you ever gonna have to count on
Or gonna wanna lean on
It's gonna feel just like those raindrops do
When they're falling down, honey, all around you.
Oh, I know you're unhappy.

Oh sit there, ah go on, go on
And count your fingers.
I don't know what else, what else
Honey have you got to do.
And I know how you feel,
And I know you ain't got no reason to go on
And I know you feel that you must be through.
Oh honey, go on and sit right back down,
I want you to count, oh count your fingers,
Ah my unhappy, my unlucky
And my little, oh, girl blue.
I know you're unhappy,
Ooh ah, honey I know,
Baby I know just how you feel.

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

The Beatles - Help - with lyrics – 1965


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_PQ1G4tY3Q

Help! I need somebody
Help! Not just anybody
Help! You know I need someone
Help!

(When) When I was younger (When I was young) so much younger than today
(I never need) I never needed anybody's help in any way
(Now) But now these days are gone (These days are gone) and I'm not so self assured
(And now I find) Now I find I've changed my mind, I've opened up the doors

Help me if you can, I'm feeling down
And I do appreciate you being 'round
Help me get my feet back on the ground
Won't you please, please help me?

(Now) And now my life has changed (My life has changed) in oh so many ways
(My independence) My independence seems to vanish in the haze
(But) But ev'ry now (Every now and then) and then I feel so insecure
(I know that I) I know that I just need you like I've never done before

Help me if you can, I'm feeling down
And I do appreciate you being 'round
Help me get my feet back on the ground
Won't you please, please help me?

When I was younger, so much younger than today
I never needed anybody's help in any way
(Now) But now these days are gone (These days are gone) and I'm not so self assured
(And now I find) Now I find I've changed my mind, I've opened up the doors

Help me if you can, I'm feeling down
And I do appreciate you being 'round
Help me get my feet back on the ground
Won't you please, please help me?

Help me, help me
Ooh

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

chào Caprio đã ghé nghe nhạc xưa

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Emmylou Harris - Save the last dance for me – 1979 (original 1960)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HptdyRbuOI

You can dance
Every dance with the girl who gives you the eye
Let her hold you tight
You can smile
Every smile for the girl who'd like to treat you right
'Neath the pale moonlight
But don't forget who's takin' you home
And in who's arms you're gonna be
Oh, darlin' save the last dance for me
Oh I know
That the music's fine like sparklin' wine
Go and have your fun
Dance and sing
But while we're apart don't give your heart to anyone
And don't forget who's takin' you home
And in who's arms you're gonna be
Oh, darlin', save the last dance for me

You can dance
Go and carry on till the night is gone
And it's time to go
If she asks
If you're all alone, can she take you home
You must tell her no

And don't forget who's takin' you home
And in who's arms you're gonna be
Oh, darlin', save the last dance for me
And don't forget who's takin' you home
And in who's arms you're gonna be
Oh, darlin', save the last dance for me

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

The Beatles - A hard day night – 1964


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fw8baPAVZ9A

t's been a hard day's night, and I've been working like a dog
It's been a hard day's night, I should be sleeping like a log
But when I get home to you I find the things that you do
Will make me feel alright

You know I work all day to get you money to buy you things
And it's worth it just to hear you say you're going to give me everything
So why on earth should I moan, cos when I get you alone
You know I feel OK

When I'm home everything seems to be right
When I'm home feeling you holding me tight, tight, yeah

It's been a hard day's night, and I've been working like a dog
It's been a hard day's night, I should be sleeping like a log
But when I get home to you I find the things that you do
Will make me feel alright owww

So why on earth should I moan, cos when I get you alone
You know I feel OK

When I'm home everything seems to be right
When I'm home feeling you holding me tight, tight, yeah

It's been a hard day's night, and I've been working like a dog
It's been a hard day's night, I should be sleeping like a log
But when I get home to you I find the things that you do
Will make me feel alright
You know I feel alright
You know I feel alright

[RaginCajun]

Janis Joplin - Little Girl Blue (blue music - original 1935)

.Thích cô này hát bài "At Seventeen" nữa

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Thích cô này hát bài "At Seventeen" nữa

chào bác Tôm,

bài At seventeen nghe rất đạt, thỉnh thoảng nghe lại.

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

NANA MOUSKOURI - LA PALOMA - Spanish composer Sebastián Iradier -1863


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxAqEP8ZAfg

Cuando salì de la habana, válgame dios
Nadie me ha visto salir sino fuì yo
Y una linda guachinanga como una flor
Se vino detrás de mì, que si señor

Si a tu ventana llega una paloma
Trátala con cariño que es mi persona
Cuéntale tus amores bien de mi vida
Corónala de flores que es cosa mìa
Ay chinita que si, ay que darme tu amor
Ay que vente conmigo chinita
A donde vivo yo

Y una linda guachinanga como una flor
Se vino detrás de mì, que si señor

Si a tu ventana llega una paloma
Trátala con cariño que es mi persona
Cuéntale tus amores bien de mi vida
Corónala de flores que es cosa mìa
Ay chinita que si, ay que darme tu amor
Ay que vente conmigo chinita
A donde vivo yo

Ay chinita que si, ay que darme tu amor
Ay que vente conmigo chinita
A donde vivo yo

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Never On Sunday - The Chordettes – 1960


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p57nf-FvVxw

Oh, you can kiss me on a Monday
A Monday, a Monday is very, very good
Or you can kiss me on a Tuesday
A Tuesday, a Tuesday, in fact I wish you would
Or you can kiss me on a Wednesday
A Thursday, a Friday and Saturday is best
But never, never on a Sunday
A Sunday, a Sunday, 'cause that's my day of rest
Most any day you can be my guest
Any day you say, but my day of rest
Just name the day that you like the best
Only stay away on my day of rest
Oh, you can kiss me on a cool day, a hot day
A wet day, which everyone you choose
Or try to kiss me on a gray day, a May day
A pay day, and see if I refuse
And if you make it on a bleak day
A freak day, a week day, why you can be my guest
But never, never on a Sunday

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

You Needed Me - Anne Murray – 1978


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-X79Jko9bBI

I cried a tear, you wiped it dry
I was confused, you cleared my mind
I sold my soul, you bought it back for me
And held me up and gave me dignity
Somehow you needed me

You gave me strength to stand alone again
To face the world out on my own again
You put me high upon a pedestal
So high that I could almost see eternity
You needed me, you needed me

And I can't believe it's you I can't believe it's true
I needed you and you were there
And I'll never leave, why should I leave, I'd be a fool
'Cause I finally found someone who really cares

You held my hand when it was cold
When I was lost, you took me home
You gave me hope when I was at the end
And turned my lies back into truth again
You even called me friend

You gave me strength to stand alone again
To face the world out on my own again
You put me high upon a pedestal
So high that I could almost see eternity
You needed me, you needed me
You needed me, you needed me

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Linda Ronstadt - Blue Bayou – 1977


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_lzeHYNngE

I feel so bad I got a worried mind
I'm so lonesome all the time
Since I left my baby behind
On Blue Bayou

Saving nickles saving dimes
Working til the sun don't shine
Looking forward to happier times
On Blue Bayou

I'm going back someday
Come what may
To Blue Bayou
Where the folks are fine
And the world is mine
On Blue Bayou
Where those fishing boats
With their sails afloat
If I could only see
That familiar sunrise
Through sleepy eyes
How happy I'd be

Gonna see my baby again
Gonna be with some of my friends
Maybe I'll feel better again
On Blue Bayou

Saving nickles saving dimes
Working til the sun don't shine
Looking forward to happier times
On Blue Bayou

I'm going back someday
Come what may
To Blue Bayou
Where the folks are fine
And the world is mine
On Blue Bayou
Where those fishing boats
With their sails afloat
If I could only see
That familiar sunrise
Through sleepy eyes
How happy I'd be

Oh that boy of mine
By my side
The silver moon
And the evening tide
Oh some sweet day
Gonna take away
This hurting inside
Well I'll never be blue
My dreams come true
On Blue Bayou

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Lobo - How can i tell her – 1973


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvDl3w8JVFg

She knows when I'm lonesome, she cries when I'm sad
She's up in the good times, she's down in the bad
Whenever I'm discouraged, she knows just what to do
But girl she doesn't know about you.

I can tell her my troubles, she makes them all seem right
I can make up excuses not to hold her at night
We can talk of tomorrow, I'll tell her things that I want to do
But girl how can I tell her about you.

How can I tell her about you
Girl please tell me what to do
Everything seems right whenever I'm with you
So girl won't you tell me how to tell her about you.

How can I tell her I don't miss her whenever I'm away
How can I say it's you I think of every single night and day
But when is it easy telling someone we're through
Ah girl help me tell her about you.

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Barbara Lewis -- Baby, Im Yours – 1965


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKZ7o7EXHFM

Baby I'm yours
And I'll be yours until the stars fall from the sky
Yours until the rivers all run dry
In other words, until I die
Baby I'm yours
And I'll be yours until the sun no longer shines
Yours until the poets run out of rhyme
In other words, until the end of time
I'm gonna stay right here by your side
Do my best to keepyou satisfied
Nothing in the world can drive me away
'Cause every day you'll hear me say
Baby I'm yours
And I'll be yours until two and two is three
Yours until the mountain crumbles to the sea
In other words, until I eternity
Baby I'm yours
And I'll be yours until the stars fall from the sky
Yours until the rivers all run dry
In other words, until I die
Baby I'm yours
And I'll be yours until the sun no longer shines
Yours until the poets run out of rhyme
In other words, until the end of time
I'm gonna stay right here by your side
Do my best to keepyou satisfied
Nothing in the world can drive me away
'Cause every day you'll hear me say
Baby I'm yours
And I'll be yours until two and two is three
Yours until the mountain crumbles to the sea
In other words, until I eternity

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

chào sông thương, co may, chị phuong vy đã ghé nghe nhạc.

*****

The Guess Who - No Time - 1970


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63CzIUJU76w

(No time left for you)
On my way to better things
(No time left for you)
I'll find myself some wings
(No time left for you)
Distant roads are calling me
(No time left for you)
Mm-da, mm-da, mm-da, mm-da, mm-da

No time for a summer friend
No time for the love you send
Seasons change and so did I
You need not wonder why
You need not wonder why
There's no time left for you
No time left for you

(No time left for you)
On my way to better things
(No time left for you)
I'll find myself some wings
(No time left for you)
Distant roads are calling me
(No time left for you)
Mm-day, mm-gay, mm-day, mm-gay, mm-day

No time for a gentle rain
No time for my watch and chain
No time for revolving doors
No time for the killing floor
No time for the killing floor
There's no time left for you
No time left for you

No time for a summer friend
No time for the love you send
Seasons change and so did I
You need not wonder why
You need not wonder why
There's no time left for you
No time left for you

No time, no time, no time, no time
No time, no time, no time, no time

I got, got, got, got no time
I got, got, got, got no time
I got, got, got, got no time
No, no, no, no, no, no, no time
No, no, no, no, no, no, no time
I got, got, got, got no time
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no time
I got no time, got no time, got no time, no time, got no time
Got no time, got no time

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

SISTER SLEDGE - WE ARE FAMILY (1979)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMVe_HcyP9Y

We are family
I got all my sisters with me
We are family
Get up ev'rybody and sing
We are family
I got all my sisters with me
We are family
Get up ev'rybody and sing
Ev'ryone can see we're together
As we walk on by
(Hey) and we fly just like birds of a feather
I won't tell no lie
(ALL!) all of the people around us they say
Can they be that close
Just let me state for the record
We're giving love in a family dose
We are family
I got all my sisters with me
We are family
Get up ev'rybody and sing
We are family
I got all my sisters with me
We are family
Get up ev'rybody and sing
Living life is fun and we've just begun
To get our share of the world's delights
(HIGH!) high hopes we have for the future
And our goal's in sight
(WE!) no we don't get depressed
'Cause here's what we call our golden rule
Have faith in you and the things you do
You won't go wrong
This is our family Jewel
We are family
I got all my sisters with me
We are family
Get up ev'rybody and sing
We are family
I got all my sisters with me
We are family
Get up ev'rybody and sing
We are family
We are family
We are family
We are family
We are family
We are family
We are family

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

IN THE YEAR 2525--ZAGER AND EVANS – 1969


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zy5XBbrDkRk

In the year 2525
If man is still alive
If woman can survive
They may find

In the year 3535
Ain't gonna need to tell the truth, tell no lies
Everything you think, do and say
Is in the pill you took today

In the year 4545
Ain't gonna need your teeth, won't need your eyes
You won't find a thing to chew
Nobody's gonna look at you

In the year 5555
Your arms are hanging limp at your sides
Your legs got nothing to do
Some machine is doing that for you

In the year 6565
Ain't gonna need no husband, won't need no wife
You'll pick your son, pick your daughter too
From the bottom of a long glass tube, whoa

In the year 7510
If God's a-comin' he ought to make it by then
Maybe he'll look around himself and say
Guess it's time for the Judgement day

In the year 8510
God is gonna shake his mighty head then
He'll either say I'm pleased where man has been
Or tear it down and start again, woah woah

In the year 9595
I'm kinda wondering if man is gonna be alive
He's taken everything this old earth can give
And he ain't put back nothing, woah woah

Now it's been 10,000 years
Man has cried a billion tears
For what he never knew
Now man's reign is through

But through eternal night
The twinkling of starlight
So very far away
Maybe it's only yesterday

In the year 2525
If man is still alive
If woman can survive
They may thrive

In the year 3535
Ain't gonna need to tell the truth, tell no lies

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

How Can You Mend a Broken Heart - The Bee Gees – 1971


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QUX8fJ40RA

I can think of younger days when living for my life
Was everything a man could want to do.
I could never see tomorrow, but I was never told about the sorrow.

And how can you mend a broken heart?
How can you stop the rain from falling down?
How can you stop the sun from shining?
What makes the world go round?
How can you mend a this broken man?
How can a loser ever win?
Please help me mend my broken heart and let me live again.

I can still feel the breeze that rustles through the trees
And misty memories of days gone by
We could never see tomorrow, noone said a word about the sorrow.

And how can you mend a broken heart?
How can you stop the rain from falling down?
How can you stop the sun from shining?
What makes the world go round?
How can you mend this broken man?
How can a loser ever win?
Please help me mend my broken heart and let me live again.

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

The Turtles - Elenore - (1968)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBBCarZWL1M

You've got a thing about you
I just can't live without you
I really want you, Elenore, near me

Your looks intoxicate me
Even though your folks hate me
There's no one like you, Elenore, really

Elenore, gee, I think you're swell
And you really do me well
You're my pride and joy, et cetera

Elenore, can I take the time
To ask you to speak your mind?
Tell me that you love me better

I really think you're groovy
Let's go out to a movie
What do you say now, Elenore, can we?

They'll turn the lights way down low
Maybe we won't watch the show
I think I love you, Elenore, love me

Elenore, gee, I think you're swell
And you really do me well
You're my pride and joy, et cetera

Elenore, can I take the time
To ask you to speak your mind?
Tell me that you love me better

Elenore, gee, I think you're swell, ah-ha
Elenore, gee, I think you're swell, ah-ha-ha

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

SUPERSTAR--THE CARPENTERS – 1971


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Utxws1T-QHI

Long ago and oh so far away
I fell in love with you before the second show
Your guitar, it sounds so sweet and clear
But you're not really here
It's just the radio

[Chorus:]
Don't you remember you told me you loved me baby
You said you'd be coming back this way again baby
Baby, baby, baby, baby, oh, baby, I love you I really do

Loneliness is such a sad affair
And I can hardly wait to be with you again

What to say to make you come again
Come back to me again
And play your sad guitar

[Chorus x2]

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

chào sông thương, Caprio, bác Tôm


****

Mary MacGregor - Torn Between Two Lovers – 1976


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1F5BLLFAeM

There are times when a woman has to say what's on her mind
Even though she knows how much it's gonna hurt
Before I say another word, let me tell you "I love you"
Let me hold you close, and say these words as gently as I can
"There's been another man that I've needed and I've loved,
But that doesn't mean I love you less,
And he knows he can't possess me, and he knows he never will,
There's just this empty place inside of me that only he can fill"

(chorus)
Torn between two lovers, feeling like a fool
Loving both of you is breaking all the rules
Torn between two lovers, feeling like a fool
Loving you both is breaking all the rules

You mustn't think you failed me just because there's someone else
You were the first real love I ever had,
And all the things I ever said
I swear they still are true
For no one else can have the part of me I gave to you

Torn between two lovers, feeling like a fool
Loving both of you is breaking all the rules
Torn between two lovers, feeling like a fool
Loving you both is breaking all the rules

Couldn't really blame you if you turned and walked away
But with everything I feel inside, I'm asking you to stay

Torn between two lovers, feeling like a fool
Loving both of you is breaking all the rules
Torn between two lovers, feeling like a fool
Loving you both is breaking all the rules

Torn between two lovers, feeling like a fool
Loving both of you is breaking all the rules
Torn between two lovers, feeling like a fool
Loving you both is breaking all the rules

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

The Monkees - Last Train To Clarksville - 1966


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcXpKiY2MXE

Take the last train to Clarksville,
And I'll meet you at the station.
You can be be there by four thirty,
'Cause I made your reservation.
Don't be slow, oh, no, no, no!
Oh, no, no, no!

'Cause I'm leavin' in the morning
And I must see you again
We'll have one more night together
'Til the morning brings my train.
And I must go, oh, no, no, no!
Oh, no, no, no!
And I don't know if I'm ever coming home.

Take the last train to Clarksville.
I'll be waiting at the station.
We'll have time for coffee flavored kisses
And a bit of conversation.
Oh... Oh, no, no, no!
Oh, no, no, no!

Take the last train to Clarksville,
Now I must hang up the phone.
I can't hear you in this noisy
Railroad station all alone.
I'm feelin' low. Oh, no, no, no!
Oh, no, no, no!
And I don't know if I'm ever coming home.

Take the last train to Clarksville,
Take the last train to Clarksville,
[repeat and fade]

[RaginCajun]

chào sông thương, Caprio, bác Tôm


****

Mary MacGregor - Torn Between Two Lovers – 1976


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1F5BLLFAeM

There are times when a woman has to say what's on her mind
Even though she knows how much it's gonna hurt
Before I say another word, let me tell you "I love you"
Let me hold you close, and say these words as gently as I can
"There's been another man that I've needed and I've loved,
But that doesn't mean I love you less,
And he knows he can't possess me, and he knows he never will,
There's just this empty place inside of me that only he can fill"

(chorus)
Torn between two lovers, feeling like a fool
Loving both of you is breaking all the rules
Torn between two lovers, feeling like a fool
Loving you both is breaking all the rules

You mustn't think you failed me just because there's someone else
You were the first real love I ever had,
And all the things I ever said
I swear they still are true
For no one else can have the part of me I gave to you

Torn between two lovers, feeling like a fool
Loving both of you is breaking all the rules
Torn between two lovers, feeling like a fool
Loving you both is breaking all the rules

Couldn't really blame you if you turned and walked away
But with everything I feel inside, I'm asking you to stay

Torn between two lovers, feeling like a fool
Loving both of you is breaking all the rules
Torn between two lovers, feeling like a fool
Loving you both is breaking all the rules

Torn between two lovers, feeling like a fool
Loving both of you is breaking all the rules
Torn between two lovers, feeling like a fool
Loving you both is breaking all the rules

Hồi xưa, thời còn sinh viên mê bà chủ vì bả hát bài này quá hay. Đem ra khoe, mời bác nghe :)



Torn Between Two Lovers_Bà chủ RC Hát (https://app.box.com/s/b04kt934z81038jqcjgy)

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Hồi xưa, thời còn sinh viên mê bà chủ vì bả hát bài này quá hay. Đem ra khoe, mời bác nghe :)



Torn Between Two Lovers_Bà chủ RC Hát (https://app.box.com/s/b04kt934z81038jqcjgy)

Bất ngờ!!!

Bà chủ hát tới quá hèn chi bác Tôm mê mẩn là phải. Trên cả tuyệt vời.

***
Bài này đã dịch ra tiếng việt bởi Phạm Duy do nữ ca sĩ Julie hát.

Được dịch là Giữa hai người tình (Torn between two lovers)


Giữa hai người tình - Julie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcVN6sWpKQY

[gun_ho]

Vợ hay bồ tui mà hát cho tui nghe bài này tui đá cái bịch.:z12:

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Vợ hay bồ tui mà hát cho tui nghe bài này tui đá cái bịch.:z12:

Chào Thach Thao, bác Tôm

chào bác Gun lâu quá không gặp.

***

Enrico Macias - Paris tu m'as pris dans tes bras – 1964


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7JushEhq6Y

J'allais le long des rues
Comme un enfant perdu
J'etais seul j'avais froid
Toi Paris, tu m'as pris dans tes bras
Je ne la reverrai pas
La fille qui m'a souri
Elle s'est seulement retournée et voila
Mais dans ses yeux j'ai compris
Que dans la ville de pierre
Ou l'on se sent etranger
Il y a toujours du bonheur dans l'air
Pour ceux qui veulent s'aimer
Et le cur de la ville
A battu sous mes pas
De Passy a Belleville
Toi Paris, tu m'as pris dans tes bras
Le long des Champs Elyses
Les lumires qui viennent la
Quand j'ai croise les terrasses des cafes
Elles m'ont tendu leurs fauteuils
Saint-Germain m'a dit bonjour
Rue Saint-Benoit, rue Dufour
J'ai fait danser pendant toute la nuit
Les filles les plus jolies
Au petit matin bleme
Devant le dernier creme
J'ai ferme mes yeux la
Toi Paris, tu m'as pris dans tes bras
Sur les quais de l'ile Saint-Louis
Des pecheurs, des amoureux
Je les enviais mais la Seine m'a dit
Viens donc t'asseoir avec eux
Je le sais aujourd'hui
Nous sommes deux amis
Merci du fond de moi
Toi Paris, je suis bien dans tes bras
Toi Paris, je suis bien dans tes bras
Toi Paris, je suis bien dans tes bras
Toi Paris, je suis bien dans tes bras.

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

JAMES BROWN - Sex machine - 1970


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UzZUfFUnxY

[Part 1:]
Get up
get up
get up

get on up
stay on the scene

get on up
like a Sex Machine.
Get on up
get up
Shake your arm
then use your form.
Stay on the scene like a Sex Machine.
You gotta have the feeling
sure as you're born.
Get it together
right on
right on

get up
get up
get up.

I said the feeling you got to get

give me the fever in a cold sweat.

The way I like it is the way it is.
I got mine and don't worry about his.

[Part 2:]
Get up
get up...

You got to have the feeling get on up

sure as born get on up.
Get it together right on
right on

right on
right on
right on
right on

right on
right on
right on
right on

right on
right on.

Get up
get on up
get up
get on up

and then shake your money maker.
Shake your money maker
shake your money maker

shake your money maker
shake your money maker

shake your money maker
shake your money maker.

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Ai đang thất tình xin đừng nghe bài Knife này.

*****

Knife - Rockwell – 1961


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ge1yWot4cE

You touched my life
With the softness in the night
My wish was your command
Until you ran out of love

I tell myself I'm free
Got the chance of livin' just for me
No need to hurry home
Now that you're gone

[CHORUS:]
Knife
Cuts like a knife
How will I ever heal
I'm so deeply wounded
Knife
Cuts like a knife
You cut away the heart of my life

When I pretend
Wear a smile to fool my dearest friends
I wonder if they know
It's just a show

I'm on a stage
Day and night I go through my charades
But how can I disguise
What's in my eyes

[CHORUS]

Oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh'

I've tried and tried
Blocking out the pain I feel inside
The pain of wanting you
Wanting you

Knife
Cuts like a knife
How will I ever heal
I'm so deeply wounded
[2X]

You cut away the heart
Of my life

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Barbra Streisand - The Way We Were – 1974


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxRpq_6kjg8

Mem'ries,
Light the corners of my mind
Misty water-colored memories
Of the way we were
Scattered pictures,
Of the smiles we left behind
Smiles we gave to one another
For the way we were
Can it be that it was all so simple then?
Or has time re-written every line?
If we had the chance to do it all again
Tell me, would we? Could we?
Mem'ries, may be beautiful and yet
What's too painful to remember
We simply choose to forget
So it's the laughter
We will remember
Whenever we remember...
The way we were...
The way we were...

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

The Rose - Bette Midler – 1979


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAfPXKqPFbA

Some say love, it is a river
That drowns the tender reed.
Some say love, it is a razor
That leaves your soul to bleed.
Some say love, it is a hunger,
An endless aching need.
I say love, it is a flower,
And you its only seed.

It's the heart afraid of breaking
That never learns to dance.
It's the dream afraid of waking
That never takes the chance.
It's the one who won't be taken,
Who cannot seem to give,
And the soul afraid of dyin'
That never learns to live.

When the night has been too lonely
And the road has been too long,
And you think that love is only
For the lucky and the strong,
Just remember in the winter
Far beneath the bitter snows
Lies the seed that with the sun's love
In the spring becomes the rose.

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

"Dreamboat Annie" - Heart – 1976


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQDJ45qJHBQ

Heading out this morning into the sun
Riding on the diamond waves, little darlin' one

Warm wind caress her
Her lover it seems
Oh, Annie
Dreamboat Annie my little ship of dreams

Going down the city sidewalk alone in the crowd
No one knows the lonely one whose head's in the clouds

Sad faces painted over with those magazine smiles
Heading out to somewhere won't be back for a while

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Julio Iglesias - Amor, Amor, Amor – 1975


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iNbx9Ec5HM

Amor
Amor
Amor
Nacio de ti
Nacio de mi
De la esperanza
Amor
Amor
Amor
Nacio de Dios
Para los dos
Nacio del alma

Sentir que tus besos anidaron en mi
Igual que palomas mensajeras de luz
Saber que mis besos se quedaron en ti
Haciendo en tus labios la senal de la cruz

Amor
Amor
Amor
Nacio de ti
Nacio de mi
De la esperanza...
Sentir que tus besos anidaron en mi...
Amor
Amor
Amor
Nacio de ti
Nacio de mi
De la esperanza...


Amor - Tuấn Ngọc – lời việt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LF1T6CKITfc

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Linda Ronstadt - Long Long Time – 1969


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Obm1ex9VqFk

Love will abide, take things in stride
Sounds like good advice but there's no one at my side
And time washes clean love's wounds unseen
That's what someone told me but I don't know what it means.

Cause I've done everything I know to try and make you mine
And I think I'm gonna love you for a long long time

Caught in my fears
Blinking back the tears
I can't say you hurt me when you never let me near
And I never drew one response from you
All the while you fell all over girls you never knew
Cause I've done everything I know to try and make you mine
And I think it's gonna hurt me for a long long time

Wait for the day
You'll go away
Knowing that you warned me of the price I'd have to pay
And life's full of flaws
Who knows the cause?
Living in the memory of a love that never was
Cause I've done everything I know to try and change your mind
and I think I'm gonna miss you for a long long time
Cause I've done everything I know to try and make you mine
And I think I'm gonna love you for a long long time.

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

chào chi aovang


Tous Les Garçons Et Les Filles ( 1962 ) - FRANCOISE HARDY


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZLAHhE2KM8

Tous les garçons et les filles de mon âge
Se promènent dans la rue deux par deux,
Tous les garçons et les filles de mon âge
Savent bien ce que see'est d'être heureux,
Et les yeux dans les yeux, et la main dans la main,
Ils s'en vont amoureux sans peur do lendemain.
Oui mais moi, je vais seule par les rues, l'âme en peine,
Oui mais moi, je vais seule, car personne ne m'aime.

Mes jours comme mes nuits sont en tous points pareils,
Sans joies et pleins d'ennuis personne ne murmure
"je t'aime" à mon oreille.

Tous les garçons et les filles de mon âge
Font ensemble des projets d'avenir,
Tous les garçons et les filles de mon âge
Savent très bien ce qu'aimer veut dire,
Et les yeux dans les yeux, et la main dans la main,
Ils s'en vont amoureux sans peur do lendemain.
Oui mais moi, je vais seule par les rues, l'âme en peine,
Oui mais moi, je vais seule, car personne ne m'aime.

Mes jours comme mes nuits sont en tous points pareils,
Sans joies et pleins d'ennuis oh! quand pour moi
Brillera le soleil?

Comme les garçons et les filles de mon âge
Connaîtrais-je bientôt ce qu'est l'amour?
Comme les garçons et les filles de mon âge
Je me demande quand viendra le jour,
Où les yeux dans ses yeux, et la main dans sa main,
J'aurai le coeur heureux sans peur do lendemain.
Le jour où je n'aurai plus do tout l'âme en peine,
Le jour où moi aussi j'aurai quelqu'un qui m'aime.

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

giới thiệu bài hát theo thể hát nói country music.

Charlie Daniels - Uneasy Rider – 1973


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=952h-AJ3Bcg

I was takin a trip out to L.A.
Toolin along in my cheverolet
Tokin on a number and diggin on the radio

Just as I crossed the Mississippi line
I heard that highway start to whine
And I knew that left rear tire was about to blow

Well the spare was flat and I got uptight
Cause there wasn't a filling station in sight
So I just limped on down the shoulder on the rim

I went as far as I could and when I stopped the car
It was right in front of this little bar
Kind of a red-neck lookin joint called the Dew Drop Inn

I stuffed my hair up under my hat
And told the bartender that I had a flat
And would he be kind enough to give me change for a one

There was one thing I was sure proud to see
There wasn't a soul in the place except for him and me
He just looked disgusted and pointed toward the telephone

I called up the station down the road a ways
He said he wasn't very busy today
And he could have someone out there in just about 10 minutes or so

He said, "Now, you just stay right where yer at!"
And I didn't bother to tell the darn fool
That I sure as hell didn't have anyplace else to go

I just ordered up a beer and sat down at the bar
When some guy walked in and said, "Who owns this car
With the peace sign, the mag wheels and the four on the floor?"

He looked at me and I damn near died
And I decided that I'd just wait outside
So I laid a dollar on the bar and headed for the door

Just when I thought I'd get outta there with my skin
These 5 big dudes come strollin in
With one old drunk chick and some fella with green teeth

I was almost to the door when the biggest one
Said, "You tip your hat to this lady, son!"
And when I did, all that hair fell out from underneath

Now the last thing I wanted was to get into a fight
In Jackson Mississippi on a Saturday night
Especially when there was three of them and only one of me

They all started laughin and I felt kinda sick
And I knew I better think of something pretty quick
So I just reached out and kicked old green teeth right in the knee

Now he let out a yell that'd curl yer hair
But before he could move I grabbed me a chair
And said "Now watch him Folks cause he's a thoroughly dangerous man!"

"You may not know it but this man is a spy.
He's a undercover agent for the FBI
And he's been sent down here to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan!"

He was still bent over holdin on to his knee
But everybody else was looking and listening to me
And I laid it on thicker and heavier as I went

I said, "Would you believe this man has gone as far
As tearing Wallace stickers off the bumpers of cars.
And he voted for George McGovern for President."

"Well, he's a friend of them long haired, hippy-type, pinko fags!
I betchya he's even got a commie flag
tacked up on the wall inside of his garage."

"He's a snake in the grass, I tell ya guys.
He may look dumb but that's just a disguise,
He's a mastermind in the ways of espionage"

They all started lookin real suspicious at him
And he jumped up and said "Now just wait a minute Jim!
You know he's lying I been living here all of my life!"

"I'm a faithful follower of Brother John Birch
And I belong to the Antioch Baptist Church.
And I ain't even got a garage, you can call home and ask my wife!"

Then he started saying somethin bout the way I was dressed
But I didn't wait around to hear the rest
I was too busy moving and hoping I didn't run outta luck

When I hit the ground I was making tracks
And they were just taking my car down off the jacks
So I threw the man a twenty and jumped in and fired that mother up

Mario Andretti wouldda sure been proud
Of the way I was movin when I passed that crowd
Coming out the door and headed toward me at a trot

And I guess I should of gone ahead and run
But somehow I just couldn't resist the fun
Of chasing them all just once around the parking lot

Well they headed for their car, but i hit the gas
And spun around and headed them off at the pass
I was slinging gravel and putting a ton of dust in the air

I had them all out there steppin and fetchin
Like their heads was on fire and their asses was catchin
then I figgered I had better go ahead and split before the cops got there

When I hit the road I was really wheelin
Had gravel flyin and rubber squeelin
And I didn't slow down till I was almost to Arkansas

I think I'm gonna reroute my trip
I wonder if anybody'd think I'd flipped
If I went to L.A., via Omaha

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

chào sông thương,

****

edison lighthouse - Love grows where my rosemary goes – 1970


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tr6H1a7YUac&index=40

She ain't got no money
Her clothes are kinda funny
Her hair is kinda wild and free
Oh, but love grows where my Rosemary goes
And nobody knows like me
She talks kinda lazy
And people say she she's crazy
And her life's a mystery
Oh, but love grows where my Rosemary goes
And nobody knows like me
There's something about her hand holding mine
It's a feeling that's fine
And I just gotta say
She's really got a magical spell
And it's working so well
That I can't get away
I'm a lucky fella
And I've just got to tell her
That I love her endlessly
Because love grows where my Rosemary goes
And nobody knows like me
There's something about her hand holding mine
It's a feeling that's fine
And I just gotta say
She's really got a magical spell
And it's working so well
That I can't get away
I'm a lucky fella
And I've just got to tell her
That I love her endlessly
Because love grows where my Rosemary goes
And nobody knows like me
[Fadeout:]
It keeps growing every place she's been
And nobody knows like me
If you've met her, you'll never forget her
And nobody knows like me
La la la- believe it when you've seen it
Nobody knows like me

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

The Jaggerz - 'The Rapper' – 1970


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fYV3dJp-k4

Hey girl, I bet ya
There's someone out to get you
You'll find him anywhere
On a bus, in a bar, in a grocery store
He'll say "Excuse me, haven't I seen you somewhere before?"
Rap, rap, rap, they call him the rapper
Rap, rap, rap, you know what he's after
So, he starts his rappin'
Hoping something will happen
He'll say he needs you
A companion, a girl he can talk to
He's made up his mind
He needs someone to sock it to

Rap, rap, rap, they call him the rapper
Rap, rap, rap, you know what he's after
He's made an impression
So he makes a suggestion
"Come up to my place
For some coffee or tea or me"
He's got you where he wants you
Girl, you've gotta face reality
Rap, rap, rap, they call him the rapper
Rap, rap, rap, you know what he's after
Rap, rap, rap, they call him the rapper

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Susanna Hoffs of the Bangles - Different Drum - original The Stone Poneys (feat Linda Ronstadt) - Different Drum (1967)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNhVhe7ZXyQ

You and I travel to the beat of a different drum
Oh can't you tell by the way I run
Every time you make eyes at me
Wo-oh

You cry and moan and say it will work out
But honey child I've got my doubts
You can't see the forest for the trees

Oh don't get me wrong
It's not that I knock it
It's just that I am not in the market
For a boy who wants to love only me

Yes, and I ain't saying you ain't pretty
All I'm saying is I'm not ready
For any person place or thing
To try and pull the reins in on me

So good-bye I'll be leaving
I see no sense in this crying and grieving
We'll both live a lot longer
If you live without me

Oh don't get me wrong
It's not that I knock it
It's just that I am not in the market
For a boy who wants to love only me

Yes, and I ain't saying you ain't pretty
All I'm saying is I'm not ready
For any person place or thing
To try and pull the reins in on me

So good-bye I'll be leaving
I see no sense in this crying and grieving
We'll both live a lot longer
If you live without me

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Burt Bacharach - This Guy's in Love with You – 1968


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dDGnl8_Dzg

You see this guy
This guy's in love with you
Yes, I'm in love
Who looks at you the way I do
When you smile I can tell
We know each other very well
How can I show you
I'm glad I got to know you, 'cause

I've heard some talk
They say you think I'm fine
Yeah, I'm in love
And what I'd do to make you mine
Tell me now, is it so?
Don't let me be the last to know
My hands are shaking
Don't let my heart keep breaking, 'cause

I need your love
I want your love
Say you're in love
In love with this guy
If not, I'll just die

Tell me now, is it so?
Don't let me be the last to know
My hands are shaking
Don't let my heart keep breaking, 'cause

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Platters - Smoke Gets In Your Eyes – 1975 (original 1933)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57tK6aQS_H0

They asked me how I knew
My true love was true
I of course replied
Something here inside
Can not be denied

They, said some day you'll find
All who love are blind
When you heart's on fire
You must realize
Smoke gets in your eyes

So I chaffed them, and I gaily laughed
To think they would doubt our love
And yet today, my love has gone away
I am without my love

Now laughing friends deride
Tears I cannot hide
So I smile and say
When a lovely flame dies
Smoke gets in your eyes

Smoke gets in your eyes

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Asleep At The Wheel - "Route 66" -1976 (original 1946 Nat king cole)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ih7kl0sjdSM

(spoken)
Time to boogie woogie down route 66
(instrumental boogie piano)
Well if you ever plan to motor west
take my way that's the highway that is the best
Get your kicks on Route 66
Well it winds from Chicago to L.A.
More than 2000 miles along the way
Get your kicks on Route 66
Winds to St. Louie, Joplin Missouri
Oklahoma city sure looks pretty
You should see Amarillo, Gallup, New Mexico
Flagstaff, Arizona darlin don't forget Winona
Kingman, Barstow, San Bernadino,
Once you get hip to this kindly tip
when you take that California trip
Get your kicks on Route 66
(spoken)
Let it roll
(instrumental)
Winds to St. Louie, Joplin Missouri
Oklahoma city sure looks pretty
You should see Amarillo, Gallup, New Mexico
Flagstaff, Arizona darlin don't forget Winona
Kingman, Barstow, San Bernadino,
Once you get hip to this kindly tip
when you take that California trip
Get your kicks on Route 66
you can cop a few licks from down route 66
and you can meet a few hicks from down route 66
you'll be feeling real fine on route 66

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Heart - Crazy On You – 1977


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZjEC4WhCvg

We may still have time
We might still get by
Every time I think about it I want to cry
With the bombs and the devils
And the kids keep coming
Nowhere to breathe easy...no time to be young
But I tell myself that I'm doing alright
There's nothing left to do tonight but go crazy on you

My love is the evening breeze touching your skin
The gentle sweet singing of leaves in the wind
The whisper that calls, after you in the night
And kisses your ear in the early light
You don't need to wonder, you're doing fine
And my love, the pleasure's mine
Let me go crazy on you

Wild man's world is crying in pain
What you gonna do when everybody's insane
So afraid of fortune, so afraid of you
What you gonna do?
Crazy on you, let me go crazy on you
I was willow last night in my dream
I bent down over a clear running stream
I sang you the song that i heard up above
And you keep me alive with your sweet flowing love
Crazy, crazy on you,
Let me go crazy, crazy on you

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Paul Anka- Diana (The original recording 1957)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BX_cD7G8AwI

I'm so young and you're so old
This, my darling I've been told
I don't care just what they say
'Cause forever I will pray
You and I will be as free
As the birds up in the trees
Oh, please, stay by me, Diana

Thrills I get when you hold me close
Oh, my darling, you're the most
I love you but do you love me
Oh Diana, can't you see
I love you with all my heart
And I hope we will never part
Oh, please, stay with me, Diana

Oh my darlin', oh my lover
Tell me that there is no other
I love you with my heart
Oh-oh, oh-oh
Oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh
Only you can take my heart
Only you can tear it apart
When you hold me in your loving arms
I can feel you giving all your charms
Hold me darling, ho-ho-hold me tight
Squeeze me baby with a-all your might
Oh, please, stay by me Diana
Oh, please, Diana
Oh, please, Diana
Oh, please, Diana

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

ADAMO ,Tombe la neige – 1964


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQKSU6j1-8U

Tombe la neige
Tu ne viendras pas ce soir
Tombe la neige
Et mon coeur s'habille de noir
Ce soyeux cortege
Tout en larmes blanches
L'oiseau sur la branche
Pleure le sortilege
Tu ne viendras pas ce soir
Me crie mon dsespoir
Mais tombe la neige
Impassible manege
Tombe la neige
Tu ne viendras pas ce soir
Tombe la neige
Et mon coeur s'habille de noir
Ce soyeux cortege
Tout en larmes blanches
L'oiseau sur la branche
Pleure le sortilege
Tu ne viendras pas ce soir
Me crie mon dsespoir
Mais tombe la neige
Impassible manege

Tu ne viendras pas ce soir
Me crie mon dsespoir
Mais tombe la neige
Impassible manege


Tuyết rơi - Ngoc Lan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8xFGqtiARg

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

James Brown - I Got The Feelin' – 1968


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5CAQU6KsMI

You come home late from work, baby
You wonder why it ain't on the table
After the day that I've had
I don't believe I'm able
You give me every little reason in the book
But there's one thing that I think you've overlooked
you say you're tired, well so am I
Baby you've got to try and
Meet halfway or we ain't gonna make it, baby
Meet halfway if you want to get it right
Meet halfway cause I ain't gonna take it, baby
Meet halfway in the middle of the night
Our love is kind of stalled, baby
But it aint about the sex
I'd trade the roses and the negligees
If we could just connect
I go deeper when you look into my eyes
There's a place where neither one of us can hide
And it's up to us to reinvent the game
Love it when you call my name and
Meet halfway, ain't no doubt about it, baby
Meet halfway, and we're halfway home
Meet halfway, got to scream and shout it, baby
Meet me halfway and I'll shake you to the bone

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Mission Impossible Theme Song – 1950s


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=901-owO_tFE

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

The Magnificent Seven Theme – 1960


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XDB7GMnbUQ

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

chào sông thương,

***
John Denver - Rocky Mountain High – 1972


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOB4VdlkzO4


He was born in the summer of his 27th year, coming home to a place he'd never been before
He left yesterday behind him, you might say he was born again
You might say he found a key for every door
When he first came to the mountains, his life was far away on the road and hanging by a song
But the strings already broken and he doesn't really care
It keeps changing fast, and it don't last for long

And the Colorado Rocky Mountain high, I've seen it raining fire in the sky
The shadows from the starlight are softer than a lullaby
Rocky Mountain high, Colorado. Rocky Mountain high

He climbed cathedral mountains, he saw silver clouds below
He saw everything as far as you can see
And they say that he got crazy once and he tried to touch the sun
And he lost a friend, but kept the memory
Now he walks in quiet solitude, the forest and the streams, seeking grace in every step he takes
His sight is turned inside himself, to try and understand
The serenity of a clear blue mountain lake

And the Colorado Rocky Mountain high, I've seen it raining fire in the sky
You can talk to God and listen to the casual reply
Rocky Mountain high, Colorado. Rocky Mountain high

Now his life is full of wonder, but his heart still knows some fear
Of a simple thing he can not comprehend
Why they try to tear the mountains down to bring in a couple more
More people, more scars upon the land

And the Colorado Rocky Mountain high, I've seen it raining fire in the sky
I know he'd be a poor man if he never saw an eagle fly
Rocky Mountain high, the Colorado Rocky Mountain high, I've seen it raining fire in the sky
Friends around the campfire and everybody's high
Rocky Mountain high, Colorado. Rocky Mountain high
Rocky Mountain high, Colorado. Rocky Mountain high

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

HOLE IN MY SHOE (1967) by Traffic


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a77yHpjdUtU

I looked to the sky
Where an elephant's eye
Was looking at me
From a bubblegum tree
And all that I knew
The hole in my shoe
Was letting in water (letting in water)

I walked through a field
That just wasn't real
Where 100 tin soldiers
Would shoot at my shoulder
And all that I knew
The hole in my shoe
Was letting in water (letting in water)

(I climbed on the back of a giant albatross
Which flew through a crack in the cloud
To a place where happiness reigned all year round
Where music played ever so loudly)

I started to fall
And suddenly woke
And the dew on the grass
It stuck to my coat
And all that I knew
The hole in my shoe
Was letting in water (letting in water)

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

chào huongkhuya đã ghé nhe nhạc

****
Julio Iglesias - Viens M'Embrasser – 1974


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKiR51WQB-M

Viens m'embrasser...
Avant de t'en aller ce soir, viens m'embrasser
On ne va plus se voir mais on n'est pas fâchés...
Viens m'embrasser!

Viens m'embrasser...
Dis toi qu'entre nous deux ça ne va rien changer
Ta décision est prise et tu vas me quitter...
Viens m'embrasser!

Toi qui t'en vas
Oublie que je suis triste; oublie et souris-moi;
Fais-moi revivre encore un peu de ce temps-là
Où tu venais te jeter dans mes bras

Toi qui t'en vas
Essaie de m'inventer encore un peu de toi
Essaie de faire semblant d'avoir besoin de moi...
Viens m'embrasser pour la dernière fois!

Viens m'embrasser!
C'est toi qui vas partir, alors pourquoi pleurer?
C'est pas la fin du monde; on n'est pas les premiers
A se quitter

Viens m'embrasser
Et ne me parle plus du mal que tu me fais
Avec le temps tu sais tout devrait s'arranger...
Viens m'embrasser!

Toi qui t'en vas
Oublie que je suis triste; oublie et souris-moi;
Fais-moi revivre encore un peu de ce temps-là
Où tu venais te jeter dans mes bras

Toi qui t'en vas
Essaie de m'inventer encore un peu de toi
Essaie de faire semblant d'avoir besoin de moi...
Viens m'embrasser pour la dernière fois!

Lại Gần Hôn Em - Ngọc Lan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZhpfhRhU-U

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders - A Groovy Kind of Love – 1966


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3kXqlJhGuE

When I'm feelin' blue
All I have to do
Is take a look at you, then I'm not so blue

When you're close to me
I can feel your heartbeat
I can hear you breathing in my ear

Wouldn't you agree?
Baby, you and me
Got a groovy kind of love
We've got a groovy kind of love

Anytime you want to
You can turn me on to
Anything you want to, anytime at all

When I taste your lips
Oh, I start to shiver
Can't control the quivering inside

Wouldn't you agree?
Baby, you and me
Got a groovy kind of love
We've got a groovy kind of love

When I'm in your arms
Nothing seems to matter
If the world would shatter, I don't care

Wouldn't you agree?
Baby, you and me
Got a groovy kind of love
We've got a groovy kind of love
We've got a groovy kind of love

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

GO ALL THE WAY--THE RASPBERRIES – 1972


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KN8rjQ7PNmA

Ma-ma, yeah, whoo
Whoo-hoo-hoo
All right
Ma-ma-ma-ma, yeah, whoo

I never knew how complete love could be
Till she kissed me and said, baby
Please, go all the way
It feels so right (Feels so right)
Being with you here tonight
Please, go all the way
Just hold me close (Hold me close)
Don't ever let me go (Don't let me go)

I coudn't say what I wanted to say
Till she whispered I love you
So, please, go all the way
It feels so right (Feels so right)
Being with you here tonight
Please, go all the way
Just hold me close (Hold me close)
Don't ever let me go, oh, no (Don't let me go)

Before her love, I was cruel and mean
Had a hole in the place where my heart should have been
But now I'm changed, and I feel so strange
I come alive when she does all those things to me

And she says (Come on)
Come on (Come on)
Mm-hmm (Come on)
Come on (Come on)
I need you (Come on)
I love you (Come on)
I need you (Come on)
Ma-ma, yeah, yeah (Come on)

Please, go all the way
It feels so right (Feels so right)
Being with you here tonight
Please, go all the way
Just hold me close (Hold me close)
Don't ever let me go, oh, no (Don't let me go)

Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh
Oh
Ma-ma-ma, yeah, oh, yeah, oh, ooh
Go all the way, yeah
Whoo-hoo

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Bobbie Gentry - Ode To Billie Joe 1967


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXTv4cOALAM

It was the third of June, another sleepy, dusty Delta day
I was out choppin' cotton, and my brother was balin' hay
And at dinner time we stopped and walked back to the house to eat
And mama hollered out the back door, y'all, remember to wipe your feet
And then she said, I got some news this mornin' from Choctaw Ridge
Today, Billy Joe MacAllister jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge
And papa said to mama, as he passed around the blackeyed peas
Well, Billy Joe never had a lick of sense; pass the biscuits, please
There's five more acres in the lower forty I've got to plow
And mama said it was shame about Billy Joe, anyhow
Seems like nothin' ever comes to no good up on Choctaw Ridge
And now Billy Joe MacAllister's jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge
And brother said he recollected when he, and Tom, and Billie Joe
Put a frog down my back at the Carroll County picture show
And wasn't I talkin' to him after church last Sunday night?
I'll have another piece-a apple pie; you know, it don't seem right
I saw him at the sawmill yesterday on Choctaw Ridge
And now ya tell me Billie Joe's jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge
And mama said to me, child, what's happened to your appetite?
I've been cookin' all morning, and you haven't touched a single bite
That nice young preacher, Brother Taylor, dropped by today
Said he'd be pleased to have dinner on Sunday, oh, by the way
He said he saw a girl that looked a lot like you up on Choctaw Ridge
And she and Billy Joe was throwing somethin' off the Tallahatchie Bridge
A year has come and gone since we heard the news 'bout Billy Joe
And brother married Becky Thompson; they bought a store in Tupelo
There was a virus going 'round; papa caught it, and he died last spring
And now mama doesn't seem to want to do much of anything
And me, I spend a lot of time pickin' flowers up on Choctaw Ridge
And drop them into the muddy water off the Tallahatchie Bridge

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

chào huongkhuya và sông thương




The Fortunes-Here Comes That Rainy Day Feeling Again – 1971


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aO1LbkuPfqo

Here comes that rainy day feeling again
Submitted by Rino

Here comes that rainy day feeling again
and soon my tears they will be falling like rain
It always seems to be a Monday
Left over memories of Sunday always spent with you
before the clouds appeared and took away my sunshine

Misty morning eyes I'm trying to disguise the way I feel
but I just can't hide its people seem to know the loneliness
must show I'm thinking of my pride but breaking up inside girl
here comes that rainy day feeling again

Here comes that rainy day feeling again
And I'll be dreaming of you baby in vain
your face is always on my mind girl
im hoping soon your gonna find girl your
way back to me cause if you say you'll stay the rainy
days will go away.

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

SING--THE CARPENTERS – 1971


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iS4_8a5AxiA

Sing, sing a song
Sing out loud
Sing out strong
Sing of good things not bad
Sing of happy not sad.

Sing, sing a song
Make it simple to last
Your whole life long
Don't worry that it's not
Good enough for anyone
Else to hear
Just sing, sing a song.

Sing, sing a song
Let the world sing along
Sing of love there could be
Sing for you and for me.

Sing, sing a song
Make it simple to last
Your whole life long
Don't worry that it's not

Good enough for anyone
Else to hear
Just sing, sing a song.

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

bó tay dot com

****
Cười ra nước mắt với chuyện trả đồ ở Costco
Ngọc Lan/Người Việt
July 4, 2017


https://i0.wp.com/www.nguoi-viet.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/PN-Costco-01.jpg?fit=1280%2C839&ssl=1

Dường như không một hệ thống cửa tiệm nào trên thế giới có quy định trả đồ (return policies) dễ dàng, phóng khoáng như Costco. (Hình minh họa: Getty Images)

WESTMINSTER, California (NV) – Dường như không một hệ thống cửa tiệm nào trên thế giới có quy định trả đồ (return policies) dễ dàng, phóng khoáng như Costco. Nghĩa là, về căn bản, khách hàng có thể trả lại bất kỳ món hàng nào đã mua, bất kể mua từ đời nào, và được thối lại đầy đủ số tiền đã bỏ ra, ngoại trừ hàng điện tử thì có 90 ngày được hoàn trả cùng với hóa đơn mua hàng.

Với chính sách “hào phóng” này, về lý thuyết, bạn có thể mang trả lại một nải chuối chỉ vì nó chín sớm quá, hoặc bạn có thể trả lại một hộp đủ các loại hạt nếu bạn không thích vị của nó. Trên qui mô lớn hơn, bạn có thể trả lại tấm nệm đã mua không giới hạn thời gian, hoặc một cái vali hiệu Kirkland sau khi sử dụng đã đời!

Tuy nhiên, một số ít khách hàng đã lạm dụng chính sách hoàn trả của công ty một cách thái quá. Trong một đề tài của Reddit dành riêng cho nhân viên Costco, có chủ đề “Món hàng ‘kinh dị’ nào đã được mang trả lại Costco?”, nhiều người đã và đang là nhân viên của Costco (chỉ dùng nickname) đã kể lại những thứ “kinh dị” mà họ nhìn thấy khách hàng mang trả lại sau khi mua.

Một hộp quần lót đã được mở ra
“Nếu còn nguyên gói bao bì, nó có thể được trả lại cho nhà cung cấp sản phẩm. Nếu nó đã được sử dụng, cũng có người chịu mua nếu cửa hàng bán với giá rẻ. Đôi khi, những hộp đồ lót đã bị mở ra như thế sẽ bị vứt luôn, bởi vì nhà cung cấp không muốn nhận lại hoặc các đại lý cũng chẳng có hứng thú quan tâm vì bất cứ lý do nào.” Đó là điều mà Hobovalentine từng chứng kiến.

Một chai rượu không
Người có nickname jb2255 kể, “Một người phụ nữ đã mang trả lại một chai rượu chả còn giọt nào với lý do nó làm cô ta bị nhức đầu khi uống!”

Một cái chuồng gà đã xài
Syst3m1c, người có 8 tháng làm việc ở Costco cho biết, “Điều tệ hại nhất mà tôi từng thấy là người ta mang trả lại một cái chuồng gà đã xài rồi và bắt đầu bị mục. Cái chuồng vẫn còn dính đầy phân gà. Mọi người đều nhìn chầm chầm vào cái gia đình mang cái chuồng gà đi trả. Anh chàng kia đã mua cái chuồng trên ‘online’ từ năm ngoái. Dĩ nhiên, theo qui định, người quản lý vẫn đồng ý trả lại tiền đầy đủ cho gia đình anh chàng kia.”

Một cái máy tính xách tay cũ nhưng không phải là cái từng mua
“Vài tháng trước, có một ông mang đến trả lại một cái máy tính xách tay mà ông ta nói mới mua ‘trên mạng’ được hai tuần. Không sao cả, ông ta có thể trả lại trong vòng 90 ngày nếu như ông ta không thích cái laptop đó,” nhân viên có nickname Bloodsponge nhớ lại.

Bloodsponge kể tiếp, “Tuy nhiên, cái mà ông đó mang trả không phải là cái laptop mới ‘order’ từ Costco. Ông ta trả lại một cái laptop đã hư, đã cũ, đã mua từ 8 năm trước. Mà nó cũng không cùng nhãn hiệu nữa chứ. Ông ta ‘chơi trò’ gỡ cái nhãn mã hàng trên laptop mới mua, rồi đem dán nó vào cái cũ rít để mang trả.”

Các món hàng bán theo mùa
Nhân viên có tên “ManicHispanic85” chia sẻ, “Thường vài tháng sau khi quầy bán cây kiểng đóng thì nhiều người mang trả lại những cây cối họ làm chết vì không biết chăm sóc. Rồi vào mỗi Tháng Giêng, người ta lại mang đi trả lại những vật trang trí mùa Giáng Sinh. Tương tự như thế, Tháng Chín thì bà con lại vác đi trả những vật dụng đã mua sử dụng trong Mùa Hè như lò BBQs, quần áo tắm, phao bơi, đồ che mái patio…”

“Nói thiệt là tôi muốn sống cuộc sống như thế, sống mà không cảm thấy xấu hổ khi thực hành tiết kiệm tiền bằng cách giống như những người đó,” ManicHispanic85 nói một cách ngao ngán.


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Costco là nơi khách hàng có thể trả lại bất kỳ món hàng nào đã mua, bất kể mua từ đời nào, và được thối lại đầy đủ số tiền đã bỏ ra. (Hình minh họa: Getty Images)

“Cá già”
“Một con cá 13 tuổi! Người phụ nữ để quên con cá trong tủ trữ đông và quên béng nó đi. Giờ bà ta mang đến cửa hàng, đòi trả nó lấy lại tiền. Khi chúng tôi nói ‘không được’ thì bà ta la toáng lên, làm ầm ĩ náo loạn hết. Nếu tôi nhớ không lầm thì cuối cùng người quản lý đã để cho bà ta trả lại con ‘cá già’ và hoàn tiền đủ cho bả,” người có nickname Xianricca nhớ lại điều “hãi hùng” mà mình từng chứng kiến.

Gói thịt bò “ribeye steak” giá $200
“Có người đã mua gói thịt bò loại ‘ribeye bone’ được đóng trong bao bì với giá khoảng $200 trong mùa lễ hội, rồi sau đó mang một cái thùng đựng xương và mỡ đã nấu chín đến trả! Vậy mà họ cũng vẫn được hoàn tiền lại đầy đủ nha. Thiệt là trợn trắng mắt luôn,” người lấy nickname “inglorious” nhớ lại.

Máy rửa nhà
Nhân viên lấy tên “hobovalentine” lại có “kỷ niệm” với một người mang đến trả lại chiếc máy rửa nhà mua đã… 15 năm.

“Món hàng cũ nhất mà tôi từng thấy người ta mang đến trả để đòi tiền lại là một cái máy rửa nhà. Họ trả với lý do là nó không hoạt động nữa. Nhưng có phải là quá ‘lố bịch’ không khi mà cái máy đã được mua lâu đến chừng ấy thời gian. Xin lỗi chịu hỏng nổi!” Hobovalentine kêu trời.

Hình rửa
“Thứ tệ nhất là tôi thấy người ta mang đi trả là những tấm hình mà họ mang tới rửa. Họ cứ rửa hết đống hình họ chụp, xong rồi trả lại cả trăm tấm, mà họ không thích, tấm thì tối quá, tấm thì ‘out of focus’, tấm thì bị đỏ mắt, và yêu cầu trả lại tiền. Có người còn ‘ngon lành’ hơn nữa khi họ mang hình đến trả với lý do cái khung hình ở nhà họ là 5×7, mà họ lại đi rửa 4X6,” nickname Gundamk nói về điều mình chứng kiến.

Cái bàn ping pong mua đã 10 năm

“Một khách hàng muốn trả lại cái bàn chơi ping-pong ngoài trời mua từ 10 năm trước. Họ nói nó được xếp vào loại bàn chơi ngoài trời, nghĩa là nó được đặt ngoài trời, đúng không? Tuy nhiên, các yếu tố thời tiết ở Florida, nơi mà gần nửa thời gian là mùa mưa bão, đã không thích hợp với nó. Khung kim loại bên ngoài bị rỉ sét, một vài tấm chắn bắt đầu bong tróc. Và giờ, sau 10 năm mua về, họ muốn trả để lấy lại tiền,” nhân viên Alan tường thuật.

Bản thân tôi từng chứng kiến một người đàn ông chở tới Costco Fountain Valley một cái hộp cũ kỹ trong có cánh cửa lớn. Nhân viên quầy trả đồ đứng kiểm tra trên máy tính một đỗi, rồi nghe họ nói chuyện với nhau, mới biết ra là cánh cửa đó mua từ năm 1996. Nhưng quan trọng hơn là sau khi coi tới coi lui, họ trả lời với người đàn ông rằng món hàng đó chưa từng được bán ở Costco!

Còn bạn, bạn đã từng chứng kiến người ta lạm dụng chuyện trả đồ như thế nào?

https://www.nguoi-viet.com/phu-nu/cuoi-ra-nuoc-mat-voi-chuyen-tra-o-costco/

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

chào huong khuya,


Barry White - Can't get enough of your love, babe – 1974


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypyiAT1RelU

I've heard people say that
Too much of anything is not good for you, baby
Oh no
But I don't know about that
There's many times that we've loved
We've shared love and made love
It doesn't seem to me like it's enough
There's just not enough of it
There's just not enough
Oh oh, babe
Oh babe

My darling I
Can't get enough of your love, babe
Girl, I don't know, I don't know why
Can't get enough of your love, babe

Lord some things I can't get used to
No matter how I try
It's like the more you give, the more I want
And baby, that's no lie
Oh no, babe

Tell me, what can I say? What am I gonna do?
How should I feel when everything is you?
What kind of love is this that you're givin' me?
Is it in your kiss or just because you're sweet?

Girl, all I know is every time you're near
I feel the change
Somethin' moves
I scream your name
Look what you got me doin'

Darling I
I can't get enough of your love ,babe
Girl, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know why
I can't get enough of your love, babe
Oh no, babe

Girl, if I could only make you see
And make you understand
Girl, your love for me is all I need
And more than I can stand
Oh well, babe

How can I explain all the things I feel?
You've given me so much, girl you're so unreal
Still, I keep loving you more and more each time
Girl, what am I gonna do because you've blown my mind

I get the same old feelin' every time you're here
I feel the change
Somethin' moves
I scream your name
Look what you got me doin'

Darling I
Can't get enough of your love, babe
I don't know, I don't know, I don't know why
I can't get enough of your love, babe

Darling I
Can't get enough of your love, babe
I don't know, I don't know, I don't know why
I can't get enough of your love, babe

Darling I
Can't get enough of your love, babe
I don't know, I don't know, I don't know why
I can't get enough of your love, babe
Oh no, babe

Baby, let me take all of my life to find you
But you can believe it's gonna take the rest of my life to keep you

Oh no, babe
My darling I, can't get enough of your love babe
Yeah, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know why
Can't get enough of your love babe
Oh my darling I, can't get enough of your love babe
Oh babe
I don't know, I don't know, I don't know why
I can't get enough of your love babe
Oh babe

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Del Shannon – Runaway -1961


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziLagAgoPCE

As I walk along, I wonder
A-what went wrong with our love
A love that was so strong

And as I still walk on, I think of
The things we've done together
While our hearts were young

I'm a-walkin' in the rain
Tears are fallin' and I feel the pain
Wishin' you were here by me
To end this misery

I wonder
I wah-wah-wah-wah-wonder
Why
Why, why, why, why, why
She ran away

And I wonder
Where she will stay
My little runaway
A-run, run, run, run, runaway

I'm a-walkin' in the rain
Tears are fallin' and I feel the pain
Wishin' you were here by me
To end this misery

And I wonder
I wah-wah-wah-wah-wonder
Why
Why, why, why, why, why
She ran away

And I wonder
Where she will stay
My little runaway
A-run, run, run, run, runaway
A-run, run, run, run, runaway
A-run, run, run, run, runaway

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Marie Laforêt - La plage - 1964


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSAPYpjoIKA

Quand sur la plage
Tous les plaisirs de l'été
Avec leurs joies
Venaient à moi
De tous côtés
L'amour offrait l'éternité
A cette image
De la plage ensoleillée
C'est bien dommage
Mais les amours de l'été
Bien trop souvent
Craignent les vents

En liberté
Mon cur cherchant sa vérité
Vient fair' naufrage
Sur la plage désertée.
Le sable et l'océan
Tout est en place
De tous nos jeux pourtant
Je perds la trace
Un peu comme le temps
La vague efface
L'empreinte des beaux jours
De notre amour.

Mais sur la plage
Le soleil revient déjà
Passe le temps
Le cur content
Reprends ses droits
A l'horizon s'offre pour moi
Mieux qu'un mirage
Une plage retrouvée
Mieux qu'un mirage
C'est la plage ensoleillée.

LA PLAYA ( DÒNG SÔNG QUÊ HƯƠNG)
St: Georges Joseph Van Wetter. Lời Việt Phạm Duy. Nghệ sĩ Ngọc Lan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bl0hnATSm2o

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

James Taylor and Natalie Cole - Baby It's Cold Outside – 1944


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdpfIxtjmqY

I really can't stay - Baby it's cold outside
I've got to go away - Baby it's cold outside
This evening has been - Been hoping that you'd drop in
So very nice - I'll hold your hands, they're just like ice
My mother will start to worry - Beautiful, what's your hurry
My father will be pacing the floor - Listen to the fireplace roar
So really I'd better scurry - Beautiful, please don't hurry
Well Maybe just a half a drink more - Put some music on while I pour

The neighbors might think - Baby, it's bad out there
Say, what's in this drink - No cabs to be had out there
I wish I knew how - Your eyes are like starlight now

To break this spell - I'll take your hat, your hair looks swell
I ought to say no, no, no, sir - Mind if I move a little closer
At least I'm gonna say that I tried - What's the sense in hurting my pride
I really can't stay - Baby don't hold out
Ahh, but it's cold outside

C'mon baby

I simply must go - Baby, it's cold outside
The answer is no - Ooh baby, it's cold outside
This welcome has been - I'm lucky that you dropped in
So nice and warm -- Look out the window at that storm
My sister will be suspicious - Man, your lips look so delicious
My brother will be there at the door - Waves upon a tropical shore
My maiden aunt's mind is vicious - Gosh your lips look delicious
Well maybe just a half a drink more - Never such a blizzard before

I've got to go home - Oh, baby, you'll freeze out there

Say, lend me your comb - It's up to your knees out there
You've really been grand - Your eyes are like starlight now
But don't you see - How can you do this thing to me
There's bound to be talk tomorrow - Making my life long sorrow
At least there will be plenty implied - If you caught pneumonia and died
I really can't stay - Get over that old out
Ahh, but it's cold outside

Baby it's cold outside

Brr its cold...
It's cold out there
Cant you stay awhile longer baby
Well... I really shouldn't... alright

Make it worth your while baby
Ahh, do that again...

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

The Spinners - I'll Be Around – 1972


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojCikI9npJQ

This is our fork in the road
Love's last episode
There's nowhere to go, oh no
You made your choice
Now it's up to me
To bow out gracefully
Though you hold the key, but baby

Whenever you call me, I'll be there
Whenever you want me, I'll be there
Whenever you need me, I'll be there
I'll be around

I knew just what to say
Now I found out today
That all the words had slipped away, but I know
There's always a chance
A tiny spark will remain, yeah
And sparks turn into flames
And love can burn once again, but I know you know

Whenever you call me, I'll be there
Whenever you want me, I'll be there
Whenever you need me, I'll be there
I'll be around, yeah

Whenever you call me, I'll be there
Whenever you want me, I'll be there
Even if I have to crawl, I'll be there
I'll be around

Just call me on the phone, I'll be there
I'll never leave you alone, I'll be there
Just call out your name, I know I know you know
I'll be around

I'll be standing in a coffin, I'll be there
I'll be a-rippin' it up, I'll be there
I'll be calling out your name to let you know
I'll be around

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

The Tokens - The Lion Sleeps Tonight – 1961


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LBmUwi6mEo

Weeheeheehee dee heeheeheehee weeoh aweem away
Weeheeheehee dee heeheeheehee weeoh aweem away
(A-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh)
(A-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh)
In the jungle, the mighty jungle
The lion sleeps tonight
In the jungle the quiet jungle
The lion sleeps tonight
Weeheeheehee dee heeheeheehee weeoh aweem away
Weeheeheehee dee heeheeheehee weeoh aweem away
(A-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh)
(A-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh)
Near the village, the peaceful village,
the lion sleeps tonight.
Near the village, the quiet village,
the lion sleeps tonight.
Weeheeheehee dee heeheeheehee weeoh aweem away
Weeheeheehee dee heeheeheehee weeoh aweem away
(A-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh)
(A-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh)
Hush, my darling, don't fear, my darling,
the lion sleeps tonight
Hush, my darling, don't fear, my darling,
the lion sleeps tonight
Weeheeheehee dee heeheeheehee weeoh aweem away
Weeheeheehee dee heeheeheehee weeoh aweem away
(A-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh)
(A-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh)
Weeheeheehee dee heeheeheehee weeoh aweem away.
Weeheeheehee dee heeheeheehee weeoh aweem away'.

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Betty Everett - Shoop Shoop Song (it´s in his kiss) – 1964


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4KN6TFhy2I

Does he love me I want to know
How can I tell if he loves me so
Is it in his eyes?
Oh no! You'll be deceived
Is it in his sighs?
Oh no! He'll make believe
If you want to know if he loves you so
It's in his kiss
That's where it is

Is it in his face?
Oh no! That's just his charms
In his warm embrace?
Oh no! That's just his arms
If you want to know if he loves you so
It's in his kiss
That's where it is
It's in his kiss
That's where it is

Hug him and squeeze him tight
Find out what you want to know
If it's love, if it really is
It's there in his kiss

How about the way he acts
Oh no! That's not the way
And you're not list'nin' to all I say
If you wanna know if he loves you so
It's in his kiss
That's where it is
It's in his kiss
That's where it is

Hug him and squeeze him tight
Find out what you want to know
If it's love, if it really is
It's there in his kiss

How about the way he acts
Oh no! That's not the way
And you're not listnin' to all I say
If you wanna know if he loves you so
It's in his kiss
That's where it is

It's in his kiss
That's where it is
It's in his kiss
That's where it is

It's in his kiss
That's where it is
It's in his kiss
That's where it is

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Roberta Flack / Donny Hathaway - Where is the Love (1972)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcHPNUN-U8E

Where is the love
(Where is the love)
Where is the love
(Where is the love)
Where is the love
(Where is the love)
Where is the love

Where is the love
You said you'd give to me
Soon as you were free
Will it ever be
Where is the love

You told me that you didn't love him
And you were gonna say goodbye
But if you really didn't mean it
Why did you have to lie

Where is the love
You said was mine all mine
Till the end of time
Was it just a lie
Where is the love

If you had had a sudden change of heart
I wish that you would tell me so
Don't leave me hangin on the promises
You've got to let me know

[Instrumental Interlude]

Oh, how I wish I never met you
I guess it must have been my fate
To fall in love with someone else's love
All I can do is wait
(That's all I can do)
Yeah, hey, yeah

Where is the love

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Shalamar - Second Time Around – 1979


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xz4YQZ01Q_A

I know you come a long way, baby
But you don't need that heart of stone, no
You proved that you could do it, do it, baby
You could make it on your own

But you can't keep runnin' away from love
'Cause the first one let you down, no, no, no
And though others try to satisfy you, baby
With me true love can still be found
Love can still be found

The second time around
Ooh, the second time is so much better, baby
The second time around
And I'll make it better than the first time

You know I really love you
And I paid for my mistakes, yes, I did, girl
The more I try to hide my feelings, baby
This old heart gets in the way
And love won't let me wait

The second time around
Girl, with me it's better than the first time
The second time around
Let's do it one more time, say it again

The second time around
All that I've been through, I'll do it again just as long as I'm
With you
The second time around
Ho... the second time

You can't keep runnin' away from move
'Cause the first one let you down
And though others try to satisfy you, baby
With me true love can still be found

The second time around
I'm gonna keep you mine the second time, baby
The second time around
I'll know what to do just as long as I'm with you

The second time around
Do it one more time, say it again
The second time around
I'm gonna keep you mine the second time, baby

The second time around
So in love, so in love
The second time around
Oh... ho...

The second time around
Oh...
The second time around

Ooh... ooh... ooh...
I'll make it so good to you, babe
I make it so good to you

Not like the first time (Not like the first time)
Not like the first time (Not like the first time)
Not like the first time
Talking 'bout the second time

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Mary Wells - My Guy – 1964


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WT7nBGX5eU

Nothing you could say could tear me away from my guy,
(My guy)
Nothing you could do 'cause I'm stuck like glue to my guy.
(My guy)
I'm sticking to my guy like a stamp to a letter,
Like birds of a feather we stick together,
I'm tellin' you from the start I can't be torn apart from my guy.

Nothing you could do could make me untrue to my guy,
(My guy)
Nothing you could buy could make me tell a lie to my guy.
(My guy)
I gave my guy my word of honor to be faithful, and I'm gonna,
You best be believing I won't be deceiving my guy.

As a matter of opinion I think he's tops,
My opinion is he's the cream of the crop;
As a matter of taste to be exact he's my ideal as a matter of fact.

No muscle-bound man could take my hand from my guy.
(My guy)
No handsome face could ever take the place of my guy.
(My guy)
He may not be a movie star, but when it comes to bein' happy we are.
There's not a man today who could take me away from my guy.

No muscle-bound man could take my hand from my guy.
(My guy)
No handsome face could ever take the place of my guy.
(My guy)
He may not be a movie star, but when it comes to bein' happy we are.
There's not a man today who could take me away from my guy.
(What you say, Tell me more)

No muscle-bound man could take my hand from my guy.
(My guy)
No handsome face could ever take the place of my guy.
(My guy)
He may not be a movie star, but when it comes to bein' happy we are.

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Jesse Green - Nice And Slow (1976)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWXtnWy-o0M

Wo-o-o, wo-o-o, wo-o-o, wo-o-o ...
I feel so good ¡like a lover should!
you set my soul on fire
you get me gone, go on and on
and see the flames grow higher
Wo-o-o, wo-o-o, wo-o-o, wo-o-o ...
We got it made, don't let it fade, keep movin' on
you get me gone, go on and on
and see the flames grow higher
Let's keep it high, don't let it die, keep a groovin' on
nice and slow
nice and slow
nice and slow
baby

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Viola Wills - If You Could Read My Mind – 1970


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=em4rAzFxyMQ

If you could read my mind, love
What a tale my thoughts could tell
Just like an old time movie
'Bout a ghost from a wishing well
In a castle dark or a fortress strong
With chains upon my feet
You know that ghost is me
And I will never be set free
As long as I'm a ghost that you can't see

If I could read your mind, love,
What a tale your thoughts could tell
Just like a paperback novel
The kind the drugstores sell
Then you reached the part where the heartaches come
The hero would be me
But heroes often fail
And you won't read that book again
Because the ending's just too hard to take!

I'd walk away like a movie star
Who gets burned in a three way script
Enter number two
A movie queen to play the scene
Of bringing all the good things out in me
But for now, love, let's be real
I never thought I could feel this way
And I've got to say that I just don't get it
I don't know where we went wrong
But the feeling's gone
And I just can't get it back

If you could read my mind, love
What a tale my thoughts could tell
Just like an old time movie
'Bout a ghost from a wishing well
In a castle dark or a fortress strong
With chains upon my feet
But stories always end
And if you read between the lines
You'd know that I'm just tryin' to understand
The feelin's that you lack
I never thought I could feel this way
And I've got to say that I just don't get it
I don't know where we went wrong
But the feelin's gone
And I just can't get it back!

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

chào sông thương đã ghé nghe nhạc.

*****

MISTY BLUE - DOROTHY MOORE – 1979


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMONGMDEerI

Oh, it's been such a long, long time
Look like I get you off of my mind
But I can't

Just the thought of you
Turns my whole world
Misty blue

Oh honey, just the mention of your name
Turns the flicker to a flame
Listen to me good, baby

I think of the things we used to do
And my whole world turns
Misty blue

Oh baby, I should forget you
Heaven knows I've tried
Baby, when I say that I'm glad were through
Deep in my heart I know I've lied, I've lied, I've lied

Oh honey, it's been such a long, long time
Looks like I get you off of my mind
But I can't

Just the thought of you
My love, my whole world turns
Misty blue

Oh, oh I can't, oh I can't, oh I can't forget you
My whole world turns misty blue
Oh, oh, my love, my whole world turns misty blue

Baby, baby, baby, baby, baby
I can't forget you
My whole world turns misty blue

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Etta James - At Last – 1961


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQ45Q7ZuTEs

At last
My love has come along
My lonely days are over
And life is like a song

Oh yeah yeah
At last

The skies above are blue
My heart was wrapped up in clover
The night I looked at you

I found a dream, that I could speak to
A dream that I can call my own
I found a thrill to press my cheek to
A thrill that I have never known

Oh yeah yeah
You smiled, you smiled
Oh and then the spell was cast
And here we are in heaven
for you are mine...

At Last

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Betty Everett & Jerry Butler - "Let It Be Me" (1964)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7jsu8SO55I

I bless the day I found you
I want to stay around you
And so I beg you, let it be me
Don't take this heaven from one if you must cling to someone
Now and forever, let it be me
Each time we meet love, I find complete love
Oh, without your sweet love, what would life be?
So never leave me lonely
Tell me you love me only and that you'll always let it be me

And that you'll always let it be me

Each time we meet love, I find complete love
Without your sweet love, Betty, what would life be?
So never leave me lonely
Tell me you love me only and that you'll always let it be me
And that you'll always...

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Hava Nagila - The Barry Sisters – 1963

đôi khi không nghe được click youtube để nghe nhạc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oanPNF10-hw

Havah nagilah
Havah nagilah
Havah nagilah venismechah(2x)

Havah naranenah
Havah naranenah
Havah naranenah venismechah(2x)

Uru, uru achim!
Uru achim b'lev sameach
Uru achim b'lev sameach
Uru achim b'lev sameach
Uru achim b'lev sameach
Uru achim, uru achim!

Over the valley
voices are singing
Bells are ringing
Dance everyone dance
Come to the valley
Run through the clover
Harvest is over
Dance everyone dance

Dance where the corn was high
Under a golden sky
Dance where the wine was born
Dance everyone dance

Whirl and turn about
Lift up your arms and shout
Join hands, skip along
Dance everyone dance

Turn left, turn right, hold tight
Lift your feet your heart will follow
Lift your voice till they hollow
Spread your wings like the swallow
Spread your wings like the swallow
Fly away, greet the day
Dance, dance everybody dance

Havah naranenah
Havah naranenah
Havah naranenah venismechah(2x)

Havah nagilah
Havah nagilah
Havah nagilah venismechah(2x)

Havah naranenah
Havah naranenah
Havah naranenah venismechah(2x)

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

The Chantels - Maybe (1958)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IePTH1PWzAs

Maybe, if I pray every night
You'll come back to me.
Maybe, if I cry everyday
You'll come bavk to stay.
Ohhhh, maybe...
Maybe, if I hold your hand,
You will understand,
And maybe, if I kissed your lips
You'll be at my command.
Ohhhh, maybe...
I've prayed and prayed
To the Lord
To send you back my love,
But instead youcame to me
Only in My dreams
Maybe if I pray every night,
You'll come back to me.
Maybe If I cry every day,
You'll come back to stay.
Oh, maybe.

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Jerry Butler - For Your Precious Love (1958)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2y7bWN2u1s

Your precious love
Means more to me
Than any love could ever be
For when I wanted you
I was so lonely and so blue
For that's what love will do
And darling, I'm
(I'm so surprised)
Oh, when I first realized
(I realized)
That a-you were fooling me
And darling
(Whoa-ooh)
They say that our love won't grow
But I just wanna tell them
(Ooo-ooo-ooo)
That they don't know-oh-ho

For as long
As you're in love with me
Our love will grow wider
Deeper than any sea
And of all the things that I want
In this whole wide world
Is just for you to say
That you'll be my girl
And darling
(Whoa-ooh)
They say that our love won't grow
But I just wanna tell them
(Ooo-ooo-ooo)
That they don't know-oh-ho

For as long
As you're in love with me
Our love will grow wider
Deeper than any sea
And of all the things that I want
In this whole wide world
Is just for you to say
That you'll be my girl

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Danny O'keefe ~ Good Time Charlie's Got The Blues – 1969


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YP3pIPp8P8

Everybody's goin' away
Said they're movin' to LA
There's not a soul I know around
Everybody's leavin' town
Some caught a freight, some caught a plane
Find the sunshine, leave the rain
They said this town's a waste of time
I guess they're right, it's wastin' mine
Some gotta win, some gotta lose
Good time Charlie's got the blues
Good time Charlie's got the blues
Ya know my heart keeps tellin' me
"You're not a kid at thirty-three"
"Ya play around, ya lose your wife"
"Ya play too long, you lose your life"
I got my pills to ease the pain
Can't find a thing to ease the rain
I'd love to try and settle down
But everybody's leavin' town
Some gotta win, some gotta lose
Good time Charlie's got the blues
Good time Charlie's got the blues
Good time Charlie's got the blues
(whistling to end)

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Steve Lawrence - Pretty Blue Eyes -1959


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voEMDg0GBAo

Though I was in love before
Then you moved in next door
Pretty blue eyes
Pretty blue eyes
All the guys in the neighbourhood
Keep saying that you sure look good
With your blue eyes
Pretty blue eyes
Saw you from my window
My heart skipped a beat
Gonna sit on your doorstep
So now I can meet
Pretty blue eyes
Please come out today
So I can tell you what I have to say
That I love you, love you
Pretty blue eyes

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

chào huongkhuya,


***

Bill Withers - Lean On Me – 1972


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEXQkrllGbA

Sometimes in our lives
We all have pain, we all have sorrow.
But if we are wise,
We know that there's always tomorrow.

Lean on me when you're not strong
I'll be your friend, I'll help you carry on
For it won't be long
'Til I'm gonna need somebody to lean on.

Please swallow your pride
If I have things you need to borrow
For no one can fill those of your needs
That you won't let show.

You just call on me, brother, when you need a hand
We all need somebody to lean on.
I just might have a problem that you'll understand,
We all need somebody to lean on.

Lean on me when you're not strong
And I'll be your friend I'll help you carry on
For it won't be long
'Til I'm gonna need somebody to lean on

You just call on me, brother, when you need a hand
We all need somebody to lean on.
I just might have a problem that you'll understand,
We all need somebody to lean on.

If there is a load
You have to bear
That you can't carry
I'm right up the road
I'll share your load
If you just call me.

Call me if you need a friend
Call me, call me, uh-huh
Call me when you need a friend
Call me if you ever need a friend
Call me, call me
Call me, call me
Call me, call me
Call me, call me
Call me if you need a friend
Call me, call me
Call me, call me
Call me, call me
Call me, call me
Call me

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

The Band - The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down - 1969


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOTNQF-o_mQ


Virgil Kane is the name
And I served on the Danville train
'Till Stoneman's cavalry came
And tore up the tracks again
In the winter of '65
We were hungry, just barely alive
By May the 10th, Richmond had fell
It's a time I remember, oh so well
The night they drove old Dixie down
And the bells were ringing
The night they drove old Dixie down
And the people were singing
They went, "Na, na, la, na, na, la"
Back with my wife in Tennessee
When one day she called to me
"Virgil, quick, come see,
There goes Robert E. Lee!"
Now, I don't mind chopping wood
And I don't care if the money's no good
You take what you need
And you leave the rest
But they should never
Have taken the very best
The night they drove old Dixie down
And the bells were ringing
The night they drove old Dixie down
And all the people were singing
They went, "Na, na, la, na, na, la"
Like my father before me
I will work the land
And like my brother above me
Who took a rebel stand
He was just 18, proud and brave
But a Yankee laid him in his grave
I swear by the mud below my feet
You can't raise a Kane back up
When he's in defeat
The night they drove old Dixie down
And the bells were ringing
The night they drove old Dixie down
And all the people were singing
They went, "Na, na, la, na, na, la"
The night they drove old Dixie down
And all the bells were ringing
The night they drove old Dixie down
And the people were singing
They went, "Na, na, la, na, na, la"

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Jerry Lee Lewis - Whole Lotta Shakin´ Goin´on – 1957


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFxRTLmtsbE

Come along my baby, whole lotta shakin' goin' on
Yes, I said come along my baby, baby you can't go wrong
We ain't fakin', while lotta shakin' goin' on

Well, I said come along my baby, we got chicken in the barn
Woo-huh, come along my baby, really got the bull by the horn
We ain't fakin', whole lotta shakin' goin' on

Well, I said shake, baby, shake
I said shake, baby, shake
I said shake it, baby, shake it
And then shake, baby, shake
Come on over, whole lotta shakin' goin' on
Oh, let's go!

Alright

Well, I said come along my baby, we got chicken in the barn
Whose barn? What barn? My barn
Come along my baby, really got the bull by the horn
We ain't fakin', whole lotta shakin' goin' on

Easy now
Shake it
Ah, shake it, baby
Yeah
You can shake it one time for me
Ye-ah-ha-ah, I said come on over, baby
Whole lotta shakin' goin' on
Now, let's get down real low one time now
Shake, baby, shake
All you gotta do, honey, is kinda stand in one spot
Wiggle around just a little bit, that's when you got it, yeah
Come on baby, whole lotta shakin' goin' on
Now let's go one time

Shake it baby, shake, shake it baby, shake
Woo, shake baby, come on babe, shake it, baby, shake
Come on over, whole lotta shakin' goin' on

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Come And Get Your Love - Redbone - 1974


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWnRMAVWVjk

Hail (hail)
What's the matter with your hair? Yeah
Hail (hail)
What's the matter with your mind and your sign? And a, oh, oh, oh-a
Hail (hail)
Nothing the matter with your head baby, find it, come on and find it
Hail
With it, baby, 'cause you're fine, and you're mine, and you look so divine

Come and get your love
Come and get your love
Come and get your love
Come and get your love

Hail (hail)
What's the matter with you? Feel right
Don't you feel right baby?
Hail, oh yeah
Get it from the main vine, all right
I said a-find it, find it
Go on and love it if you like it, yeah
Hail (hail)
It's your business, if you want some, take some
Get it together, baby

Come and get your love
Come and get your love
Come and get your love
Come and get your love

Come and get your love, come and get your love, come and get your love now
Come and get your love, come and get your love, come and get your love now
Come and get your love, come and get your love, come and get your love now
Come and get your love, come and get your love, come and get your love now

Come and get your love
Come and get your love
Come and get your love
Come and get your love

Hail (hail)
What's the matter with you? Feel right
Don't you feel right baby?
Hail, oh yeah
Get it from the main vine, all right

La, la, la, la, la, la (Come and get your love)
La, la, la, la, la, la (Come and get your love)
La, la, la, la, la, la (Come and get your love)
La, la, la, la, la, la (Come and get your love)
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la (Come and get your love)
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la (Come and get your love)
La, la, la, la, la, la, (Come and get your love)
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la (Come and get your love)

[Co may]

Dạo nầy anh Hiệp post nhạc và ít viết.
Làm biếng rồi phải không?
:)
hihi...

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Dạo nầy anh Hiệp post nhạc và ít viết.
Làm biếng rồi phải không?
:)
hihi...

sau đợt nhạc này là viết đó. Nghe hết đợt nhạc này mới biết nhạc Mỹ đa dạng, R&B và blues nhạc dân da đen, nhạc country music dân Mỹ trắng, nhạc rock.

cô em ráng chờ sẽ tiếp tục viết.

[RaginCajun]

Dạo nầy anh Hiệp post nhạc và ít viết.
Làm biếng rồi phải không?
:)
hihi...
Chắc CM đi vắng lâu quá nên không biết chuyện. Các bác ở đây đang có phong trào nghe nhạc xưa để kéo ký ức trở lại (hay trẻ lại gì đó :p) lấy cảm hứng để viết.

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

chào co may và bác Tôm

****

Diggy Liggy Lo - Doug Kershaw – 1969


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpulhD-5CyM

Diggy Liggy Li and Diggy Liggy Lo
They fell in love at the fais-do-do
The pop was cold and the coffee *chaud
For Diggy Liggy Li and Diggy Liggy Lo

Diggy Liggy Li loved Diggy Liggy Lo
Everyone knew he was her beau
No body else could ever show
So much love for Diggy Liggy Lo

That's the place they find romance
Where they do the Cajun dance
Steal a kiss now they had a chance
She show's her love with ev'ry glance

Diggy Liggy Li loved Diggy Liggy Lo
Everyone knew he was her beau
No body else could ever show
So much love for Diggy Liggy Lo

Finally went and uh-seen her Pa
Now he's got hisself a Papa-in-law
Moved out where the Bayou's low
Now he's got a little Diggy Liggy Lo

Diggy Liggy Li loved Diggy Liggy Lo
Everyone knew he was her beau
No body else could ever show
So much love for Diggy Liggy Lo

Diggy Liggy Li loved Diggy Liggy Lo
Everyone knew he was her beau
No body else could ever show
So much love for Diggy Liggy Lo

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Chuck Berry - Johnny B. Goode – 1958


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFo8-JqzSCM

Deep down in Louisiana close to New Orleans
Way back up in the woods among the evergreens
There stood a log cabin made of earth and wood
Where lived a country boy named Johnny B. Goode
Who never ever learned to read or write so well
But he could play a guitar just like a-ringing a bell

Go go
Go Johnny go!
Go
Go Johnny go!
Go
Go Johnny go!
Go
Go Johnny go!
Go
Johnny B. Goode!

He used to carry his guitar in a gunny sack
Go sit beneath the tree by the railroad track
Oh, the engineer would see him sittin' in the shade
Strummin' with the rhythm that the drivers made
The people passing by, they would stop and say
"Oh my, but that little country boy could play"

Go go
Go Johnny go!
Go
Go Johnny go!
Go
Go Johnny go!
Go
Go Johnny go!
Go
Johnny B. Goode!

His mother told him, "Someday you will be a man,
And you will be the leader of a big ol' band
Many people comin' from miles around
To hear you play your music when the sun go down
Maybe someday your name'll be in lights
Sayin' 'Johnny B. Goode tonight!'"

Go go
Go Johnny go!
Go go go Johnny go!
Go go go Johnny go!
Go go go Johnny go!
Go
Johnny B. Goode!

[Co may]

Chắc CM đi vắng lâu quá nên không biết chuyện. Các bác ở đây đang có phong trào nghe nhạc xưa để kéo ký ức trở lại (hay trẻ lại gì đó :p) lấy cảm hứng để viết.

Hihi, vậy để cỏ chờ nghe hết đợt nhạc nầy rồi đọc.Hihi, Hiệp San nhớ nha!(nhớ mại mại người ta gọi là Hiệp San không biết có đúng không?)

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Time of the Season - The Zombies – 1967


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wG5R7vyu-mA

It's the time of the season
When love runs high
In this time, give it to me easy
And let me try with pleasured hands

(To take you in the sun to) Promised lands
(To show you every one)
It's the time of the season for loving

What's your name? (What's your name?)
Who's your daddy? (Who's your daddy?)
(He rich) Is he rich like me?
Has he taken (Has he taken)
Any time (Any time)
(To show) To show you what you need to live?

(Tell it to me slowly) Tell you what
(I really want to know)
It's the time of the season for loving

What's your name? (What's your name?)
Who's your daddy? (Who's your daddy?)
(He rich) Is he rich like me?
Has he taken (Has he taken)
Any time (Any time)
(To show) To show you what you need to live?

(Tell it to me slowly) Tell you what
(I really want to know)
It's the time of the season for loving

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

THE KINKS - 1970 - "Lola"


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7HTqoxks_4

I met her in a club down in old Soho
Where you drink champagne and it tastes just like cherry-cola [LP version - Coca-Cola:]
C O L A cola
She walked up to me and she asked me to dance
I asked her her name and in a dark brown voice she said Lola
L O L A Lola la-la-la-la Lola

Well I'm not the world's most physical guy
But when she squeezed me tight she nearly broke my spine
Oh my Lola la-la-la-la Lola
Well I'm not dumb but I can't understand
Why she walk like a woman but talk like a man
Oh my Lola la-la-la-la Lola la-la-la-la Lola

Well we drank champagne and danced all night
Under electric candlelight
She picked me up and sat me on her knee
And said little boy won't you come home with me
Well I'm not the world's most passionate guy
But when I looked in her eyes well I almost fell for my Lola
La-la-la-la Lola la-la-la-la Lola
Lola la-la-la-la Lola la-la-la-la Lola
I pushed her away
I walked to the door
I fell to the floor
I got down on my knees
Then I looked at her and she at me

Well that's the way that I want it to stay
And I always want it to be that way for my Lola
La-la-la-la Lola
Girls will be boys and boys will be girls
It's a mixed up muddled up shook up world except for Lola
La-la-la-la Lola

Well I left home just a week before
And I'd never ever kissed a woman before
But Lola smiled and took me by the hand
And said little boy I'm gonna make you a man

Well I'm not the world's most masculine man
But I know what I am and I'm glad I'm a man
And so is Lola
La-la-la-la Lola la-la-la-la Lola
Lola la-la-la-la Lola la-la-la-la Lola

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Damita Jo - If You Go Away – 1966


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRM-I7Lob3M

If you go away
On this summer day
Then you might as well
Take the sun away

All the birds that flew
In the summer sky
When our love was new
And our hearts were high

When the day was young
And the night was long
And the moon stood still
For the night bird song

If you go away
If you go away
If you go away

But if you stay
I'll make you a day
Like no day has been
Or will be again

We'll sail on the sun
We'll ride on the rain
We'll talk to the trees
And worship the wind

Then if you go
I'll understand
Leave me just enough love
To hold in my hand

If you go away
If you go away
If you go away

If you go away
As I know you will
You must tell the
World to stop turning

Til you return again
If you ever do
For what good is love
Without loving you

Can I tell you now
As you turn to go
I'll be dying slowly
Til your next hello

If you go away
If you go away
If you go away
If you go away

But if you stay
I'll make you a night
Like no night has been
Or will be again

I'll ride on you smile
I'll sail on your touch
I'll talk to your eyes
That I love so much

But if you go
I'll understand
Leave me just enough love
To hold in my hand

If you go away
If you go away
If you go away

If you go away
As I know you must
There'll be nothing left
In the world to trust

Just an empty room
Full of empty space
Like the empty look
I see on your face

Oh, I'd have been the
Shadow of your shadow
If I thought it might
Have kept me by your side

If you go away
If you go away
If you go away

Please, don't go away

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

The Knack - My Sharona (1979)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BR2JtsVumFA

Hoo, my little pretty one, my pretty one
When you gonna give me some time, Sharona?
Hoo, you make my motor run, my motor run
Gun it comin' off of the line, Sharona

Never gonna stop, give it up, such a dirty mind
I always get it up for the touch of the younger kind
My, my, my, aye-aye, woo!

M-m-m-my Sharona

Come a little closer, huh, a-will ya, huh?
Close enough to look in my eyes, Sharona
Keepin' it a mystery, it gets to me
Runnin' down the length of my thigh, Sharona

Never gonna stop, give it up, such a dirty mind
I always get it up for the touch of the younger kind
My, my, my, aye-aye, woo!

M-m-m-my Sharona
M-m-m-my Sharona (Yeah!)

When you gonna give to me, g-give to me
Is it just a matter of time, Sharona?
Is it d-d-destiny, d-destiny
Or is it just a game in my mind, Sharona?

Never gonna stop, give it up, such a dirty mind
I always get it up for the touch of the younger kind
My, my, my, aye-aye, woo!
M-m-m-m-m-m-m-my, my, my, aye-aye, woo!

M-m-m-my Sharona
M-m-m-my Sharona
M-m-m-my Sharona
M-m-m-my Sharona

Hoooooo-ohhh, my Sharona
Hoooooo-ohhh, my Sharona
Hoooooo-ohhh, my Sharona

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

The Poni-Tails - Born Too Late (1958)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3mfPDSbl-4

Born... too late
For you to notice
Me... to you
I'm just a kid
That you won't date.
Why was I born too late?

Born... too late
To have a chance
To win, your love
Oh why, oh why
Was it my fate
To be born too late?

I see, you walk, with another
I wish it could be me.
I long to hold you and kiss you;
But I know it never can be.
For I was...

Born... too late
For you to care. Now
My... heart cries
Because your heart
Just couldn't wait.
Why was I born too late?

Born... too late
For you to care. Now
My... heart cries
Because your heart
Just wouldn't wait.
Why was I born too laaaate?
Why was I born... too late?

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Yesterday shen I was young - Roy Clark – 1969


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEY4LxORCeo

Seems the love I've known has always been
The most destructive kind
Guess that's why now I feel so old
Before my time.

Yesterday when I was young
The taste of life was sweet as rain upon my tongue.
I teased at life as if it were a foolish game,
The way the evening breeze may tease a candle flame.
The thousand dreams I dreamed, the splendid things I planned
I always built to last on weak and shifting sand.
I lived by night and shunned the naked light of the day
And only now I see how the years ran away.

Yesterday when I was young
So many happy songs were waiting to be sung,
So many wild pleasures lay in store for me
And so much pain my dazzled eyes refused to see.
I ran so fast that time and youth at last ran out,
I never stopped to think what life was all about
And every conversation I can now recall
Concerns itself with me and nothing else at all.

--- Instrumental ---

Yesterday the moon was blue
And every crazy day brought something new to do.
I used my magic age as if it were a wand
And never saw the waste and emptiness beyond.
The game of love I played with arrogance and pride
And every flame I lit too quickly, quickly died.
The friends I made all seemed somehow to drift away
And only I am left on stage to end the play.

There are so many songs in me that won't be sung,
I feel the bitter taste of tears upon my tongue.
The time has come for me to pay for
Yesterday when I was young...


YESTERDAY WHEN I WAS YOUNG - Trung Hành - tiếng việt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AErjcSHXKlc

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

chào chị phuong vy và bác tôm. Nghe bản nhạc Yesterday when I was young, lòng bồi hồi nhớ lại thời còn trẻ và năng động. Giờ thì ngồi đếm từng ngày ....

***
Bread - Make it with you (1970)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0KXV0gB0dw

Hey have you ever tried
Really reaching out for the other side?
I may be climbing on rainbows
But, baby here goes

Dreams they're for those who sleep
Life is for us to keep
And if you're wondering
What this song is leading to

I want to make it with you
I really think that we could make it girl

No, you don't know me well
And every little thing only time will tell
If you believe the things that I do
And we'll see it through

Life can be short or long
Love can be right or wrong
And if I choose the one
I'd like to help me through

I'd like to make it with you
I really think that we could make it girl

Baby you know that dreams they're for those who sleep
Life is for us to keep
And if I choose the one
I'd like to help me through

I'd like to make it with you
I really think that we could make it girl

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

I LOVE HOW YOU LOVE ME ~ The Paris Sisters (1961)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwGSKea-lGw

I love how your eyes close whenever you kiss me
And when I'm away from you I love how you miss me
I love the way you always treat me tenderly
But, darling, most of all I love how you love me

I love how your heart beats whenever I hold you
I love how you think of me without being told to
I love the way your touch is always heavenly
But, darling, most of all I love how you love me

I love how your eyes close whenever you kiss me
And when I'm away from you I love how you miss me
I love the way your touch is always heavenly
But, darling, most of all I love how you love me

I love how you hug me
I love how you squeeze me, tease me, please me
Love how you love me, I love how you love me
I love how you love me

[PhPhuongVy]

Chào anh Hiệp, Tôm và các bạn. Cảm ơn anh đã chọn nhạc và cho nghe ké. PV đang tiêu thi giở ở United Airlines Club, Narita, chờ máy bay về Virginia. The United States is going to be great again in 16 hours!!!!

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Chào anh Hiệp, Tôm và các bạn. Cảm ơn anh đã chọn nhạc và cho nghe ké. PV đang tiêu thi giở ở United Airlines Club, Narita, chờ máy bay về Virginia. The United States is going to be great again in 16 hours!!!!

chào chị phuong vy,

Phi trường narita khá hiện đại và rộng lớn. Trước khi xây phi trường đã có nhiều vụ đụng độ giữa các nông dân và cảnh sát quân đội, cuối cùng thì thế lực tư bản cũng thắng vì bỏ tiền ra đền bù.

16 tiếng đồng hồ nghe mà ớn lạnh.

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

chào song thuong,

***
Bobby Vinton - Mr. Lonely – 1964


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djU4Lq_5EaM

Lonely, I'm Mr. Lonely
I have nobody for my own
I'm so lonely, I'm Mr. Lonely
Wish I had someone to call on the phone

I'm a soldier, a lonely soldier
Away from home through no wish of my own
That's why I'm lonely, I'm Mr. Lonely
I wish that I could go back home

Letters, never a letter
I get no letters in the mail
I've been forgotten, yeah, forgotten
Oh, how I wonder how is it I failed

Now I'm a soldier, a lonely soldier
Away from home through no wish of my own
That's why I'm lonely, I'm Mr. Lonely
I wish that I could go back home

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Everly Brothers - Bye Bye Love – 1957


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRyrWN-fftE

Bye bye love
Bye bye happiness
Hello loneliness
I think I'm-a gonna cry-y
Bye bye love
Bye bye sweet caress
Hello emptiness
I feel like I could die
Bye bye my love goodbye

There goes my baby with-a someone new
She sure looks happy, I sure am blue
She was my baby till he stepped in
Goodbye to romance that might have been

Bye bye love
Bye bye happiness
Hello loneliness
I think I'm-a gonna cry-y
Bye bye love
Bye bye sweet caress
Hello emptiness
I feel like I could die
Bye bye my love goodbye

I'm-a through with romance, I'm a-through with love
I'm through with a-countin' the stars above
And here's the reason that I'm so free
My lovin' baby is through with me

Bye bye love
Bye bye happiness
Hello loneliness
I think I'm-a gonna cry-y
Bye bye love
Bye bye sweet caress
Hello emptiness
I feel like I could die
Bye bye my love goodbye

Bye bye my love goodbye
Bye bye my love goodbye

[PhPhuongVy]

Chào anh Hiệp. Cảm ơn anh đã nhắc vụ tranh chấp giữa nông dân và tư bản Nhật về việc xây phi trường Narita. Để PV lục kiếm chi tiết đọc thêm.

Dạ 16 tiếng là tính luôn giờ chờ ở phi trường Narita lúc đó. Chuyến bay non-stop dự trù bay 12 giờ 30 phút, nhưng hôm qua thứ bảy, đường trống, giao thông không bị nghẽn, đường bay không ổ gà, nên rốt cuộc bay có 11 giờ 30 phút thì máy bay đáp xuống phi trường Dulles ngon lành. Đi chơi thì vui thật, cảm ơn Nam Hàn và nước Nhật, nhưng lúc chờ đợi ở phi trường để về nhà, PV cũng bồi hồi lắm. Về đến nhà thì quả thật là home sweet home. Chắc trong tủ đông còn vài hộp cá kho, ngày mai PV chạy ra chợ mua mớ rau nấu canh tôm khô và dọn thêm vài quả cà pháo muối chua nữa là đủ cho một bữa cơm thịnh soạn mà hình như mấy hôm nay PV cứ mơ màng và mơ màng.

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Chào anh Hiệp. Cảm ơn anh đã nhắc vụ tranh chấp giữa nông dân và tư bản Nhật về việc xây phi trường Narita. Để PV lục kiếm chi tiết đọc thêm.

Dạ 16 tiếng là tính luôn giờ chờ ở phi trường Narita lúc đó. Chuyến bay non-stop dự trù bay 12 giờ 30 phút, nhưng hôm qua thứ bảy, đường trống, giao thông không bị nghẽn, đường bay không ổ gà, nên rốt cuộc bay có 11 giờ 30 phút thì máy bay đáp xuống phi trường Dulles ngon lành. Đi chơi thì vui thật, cảm ơn Nam Hàn và nước Nhật, nhưng lúc chờ đợi ở phi trường để về nhà, PV cũng bồi hồi lắm. Về đến nhà thì quả thật là home sweet home. Chắc trong tủ đông còn vài hộp cá kho, ngày mai PV chạy ra chợ mua mớ rau nấu canh tôm khô và dọn thêm vài quả cà pháo muối chua nữa là đủ cho một bữa cơm thịnh soạn mà hình như mấy hôm nay PV cứ mơ màng và mơ màng.

Đây là một cảnh bạo động phản đối của nông dân Nhật với cảnh sát.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9kv6YUdN_o

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

chào co may

*****
LESLEY GORE "YOU DON'T OWN ME" 1963

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QEqLTbEXy0

You don't own me,
I'm not just one of your pretty toys.
You don't own me,
Don't say I can't go with other boys.

And don't tell me what to do,
Don't tell me what to say,
And please, when I go out with you
Don't put me on display, 'cause...

You don't own me,
Don't try to change me in any way.
You don't own me,
Don't tie me down 'cause I'd never stay.

I don't tell you what to say,
I don't tell you what to do,
So just let me be myself,
That's all I ask of you.

I'm young and I love to be young,
I'm free and I love to be free,
To live my life the way I want,
To say and do whatever I please.

(Instrumental Break)

And don't tell me what to do,
Don't tell me what to say,
And please, when I go out with you
Don't put me on display.

I don't tell you what to say,
I don't tell you what to do,
So just let me be myself,
That's all I ask of you.

I'm young and I love to be young,
I'm free and I love to be free...

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Don McLean - And I Love You So (Album Cut) 1970


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpV46ycq0dQ

And I love you so,
The people ask me how,
How I've lived till now
I tell them "I don't know"

I guess they understand
How lonely life has been
But life began again
The day you took my hand

And yes I know how lonely life can be
The shadows follow me
And the night won't set me free
But I don't let the evening bring me down
Now that you're around me

And you love me too
Your thoughts are just for me
You set my spirit free
I'm happy that you do

The book of life is brief
And once a page is read
All but love is dead
This is my belief

And yes I know how loveless life can be
The shadows follow me
And the night won't set me free
But I don't let the evening get me down
Now that you're around me

And I love you so
The people ask me how,
How I've lived till now
I tell them "I don't know"

[PhPhuongVy]

Chào anh Hiệp. Thật không dè cảnh sát Nhật cũng khá mạnh tay với người Nhật và nông dân Nhật những năm đó bạo miệng quá chừng trong cái video anh dán. PV xem thêm vài video nữa, hỏi thăm thêm bác Gù mà càng ngạc nhiên thêm. Kỳ này qua Nhật lần nữa, PV có thấy vài người phụ nữ Nhật, khoảng hơn ba mươi, hút thuốc tự nhiên ngoài đường phố; cũng thấy một số lái xe buýt lớn, quẹo trái giữa lằn ranh giao thông rất nghề; xem trên ti-vi có một hai nữ nghệ sĩ nhạc trẻ chơi trống; ở khách sạn có những người đàn ông chuyên dọn phòng và các cô gái trẻ mặc suit đồng phục làm bellboy phụ giúp chuyên hành lý cho khách đến, khách đi. PV đoán, người Nhật rất cấp tiến, xứng đáng với chủ trương duy tân của tiên đế Minh Trị Thiên Hoàng. Những giá trị truyền thống như tự trọng, tự giác, tôn trọng người khác, khiêm tốn, lịch sự, kín đáo, sạch sẽ vẫn ẩn hiện trong mỗi con người, rất đáng phục.

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Chào anh Hiệp. Thật không dè cảnh sát Nhật cũng khá mạnh tay với người Nhật và nông dân Nhật những năm đó bạo miệng quá chừng trong cái video anh dán. PV xem thêm vài video nữa, hỏi thăm thêm bác Gù mà càng ngạc nhiên thêm. Kỳ này qua Nhật lần nữa, PV có thấy vài người phụ nữ Nhật, khoảng hơn ba mươi, hút thuốc tự nhiên ngoài đường phố; cũng thấy một số lái xe buýt lớn, quẹo trái giữa lằn ranh giao thông rất nghề; xem trên ti-vi có một hai nữ nghệ sĩ nhạc trẻ chơi trống; ở khách sạn có những người đàn ông chuyên dọn phòng và các cô gái trẻ mặc suit đồng phục làm bellboy phụ giúp chuyên hành lý cho khách đến, khách đi. PV đoán, người Nhật rất cấp tiến, xứng đáng với chủ trương duy tân của tiên đế Minh Trị Thiên Hoàng. Những giá trị truyền thống như tự trọng, tự giác, tôn trọng người khác, khiêm tốn, lịch sự, kín đáo, sạch sẽ vẫn ẩn hiện trong mỗi con người, rất đáng phục.

Chào chị phuong vy,

Nền dân chủ của Nhật thập niên 60s và 70s vẫn còn phôi thai chưa đạt được đến nền dân chủ như hiện tại.

Trở lại vùng irvine của nước Mỹ một tí. cách đây 10 năm, thành phố irvine muốn cộng tác với tư bản để xây phi trường quốc tế El Toro bự hơn phi trường LAX.

Nhưng trước khi đó phải đưa dự luật ra cho dân chúng vùng irvine bỏ phiếu, cuối cùng đa số cư dân đều bác bỏ, nên dự án phi trường quốc tế Irvine phải bị huỷ bỏ.

Bây giờ thì vùng đất rộng lớn này đang xây nhà cửa, trường học, bệnh viện, khu giải trí, khu hãng xưởng.

Nền dân chủ ở Mỹ đã đạt đến độ cao.

[PhPhuongVy]

Cảm ơn anh Hiệp. Vùng Irvine rất đẹp và phồn thịnh, thị dân hiểu biết, có ý thức, sống quy củ và giữ gìn thành phố của mình chu đáo, kỹ càng. Mỗi khi sang Nam California, PV đều ghé đến, thăm bạn, thăm mấy tiệm ăn, tiệm bánh ngọt, đi ngang các trường đại học, cao đẳng.

Ở Hoa Kỳ nói chung, đôi khi trước khi bỏ phiếu, truyền thống "town hall meeting" cũng tạo cơ hội để những người vận động, những người làm chính trị và dân chúng thoải mái trình bày và trao đổi ý kiến. Cách đây chừng 20 năm, Disneyland có ý định mở thêm một trung tâm nữa tương tự như ở Annaheim và Orlando cho vùng thương mại phía tây của Lộ Số 7 (cách Tysons Corners khoảng 15 miles), nhưng sau những town hall meeting, Disneyland tự động huỷ bỏ kế hoạch đó. Gần một năm nay, cư dân vùng PV ở gửi giấy đến tận nhà nhau để vận động áp lực county không cấp giấy phép xây cất một cái "mosque" cực kỳ lớn trên một vùng đất mà một nhóm tín đồ Hồi Giáo đã mua rồi. Nhóm vận động nêu lý do là nếu mosque này xây lên thì giá nhà trong vùng sẽ giảm, điều này nhiều phần có thể gây thiệt thòi bất ngờ và vô lý cho những người đã sở hữu nhà đất ở đây. PV nhận giấy hai lần, nhưng vẫn còn lưỡng lự không biết có nên ủng hộ nhóm vận động này, vì trong vùng có ba bốn nhà thờ Công Giáo, Tin Lành và một chùa Phật Giáo khá lớn đã xây cho cư dân đến thờ phượng, chiêm bái nhiều năm nay không ai phản đối. Lưỡng lự trước lợi nhuận của mình và quyền tự do tín ngưỡng của người khác...Lưỡng lự, rồi thấy họ ngưng không thèm gửi giấy đến nhà mình nữa thì lại thấy bứt rứt.

Anh Hiệp có bài hát nào nghe để thư giản bớt cơn nhức đầu này không nhỉ? Mong là anh Hiệp không trách PV vào đây nghe nhạc còn đem chuyện nhức đầu vào theo.

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

chào chi thuy khanh, chi phuong vy, bác tôm và song thuong.

****
Anne Murray - I Just Fall In Love Again - 1978


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6_hFOBo7-I

Dreaming, I must be dreaming
Or am I really lying here with you?
Baby, you take me in your arms
And though I'm wide awake, I know my dream is coming true

And, oh, I just fall in love again
Just one touch and then it happens every time
There I go, I just fall in love again and when I do
I can't help myself, I fall in love with you

Magic, it must be magic
The way I hold you and the night just seems to fly
Easy for you to take me to a star
Heaven is that moment when I look into your eyes

And, oh, I just fall in love again
Just one touch and then it happens every time
There I go, I just fall in love again and when I do
I can't help myself, I fall in love with you
I can't help myself, I fall in love with you

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Rose Royce - Car Wash - 1976


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3Qr6omvRVI

Ooooh...
You might not ever get rich
But let me tell you it's better than digging a ditch
There ain't no telling who you might meet
A moviestar or maybe even an Indian chief

Working at the car wash
Working at the car wash, yeah
Come on and sing it with me, car wash
Sing it with the feeling now, car wash yeah

Come some of the work get's kind of hard
This ain't no place to be if you planned on being a star
Let me tell you it's always cool
And the boss don't mind sometimes if you act a fool

At the car wash, woooh
Talking about the car wash, yeah
Come on y'all and sing it for me
Car wash, woh, car wash yeah

(Work and work) Well those cars never seem to stop coming
(Work and work) Keep those waxin' machines humming
(Work and work) My fingers to the bone
(Work and work) Keep up, I can't wait till it's time to go home

Hey, get your car washed today
Fill up and you don't have to pay
Come on and give us a play
(Working at, working at the)

Car wash
Talking about the car wash yeah
Car wash yeah
Come on y'all and sing it with me
Car wash
Sing it with feeling
Car wash yeah [Repeat till fade]

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

chào chị thy khanh và chị phuong vy,

***
Gene Vincent - Be-Bop-A-Lula (1956)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bP4WqJ-HUaE

Well, be-bop-a-lula, she's my baby
Be-bop-a-lula, I don't mean maybe
Be-bop-a-lula, she's my baby
Be-bop-a-lula, I don't mean maybe

Be-bop-a-lula
She's my baby doll, my baby doll, my baby doll

Well she's the girl in the red blue jeans
She's the queen of all the teens
She's the one woman that I know
She's the woman that loves me so

Be-bop-a-lula, she's my baby
Be-bop-a-lula, I don't mean maybe
Be-bop-a-lula
She's my baby doll, my baby doll, my baby doll

Let's rock!

Well now she's the one that's got that beat
She's the one with the flyin' feet
She's the one that bops around the store
She's the one that gives more more more more

Be-bop-a-lula, she's my baby
Be-bop-a-lula, I don't mean maybe
Be-bop-a-lula
She's my baby doll, my baby doll, my baby doll

Let's rock again now!

Well, be-bop-a-lula, she's my baby
Be-bop-a-lula, I don't mean maybe
Be-bop-a-lula, she's my baby
Be-bop-a-lula, I don't mean maybe

Be-bop-a-lula
She's my baby doll, my baby doll, my baby doll

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Hotel California- Eagles – 1976


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQ-6Ztpe7Tw

On a dark desert highway, cool wind in my hair
Warm smell of colitas, rising up through the air
Up ahead in the distance, I saw a shimmering light
My head grew heavy and my sight grew dim
I had to stop for the night
There she stood in the doorway;
I heard the mission bell
And I was thinking to myself,
"This could be Heaven or this could be Hell"
Then she lit up a candle and she showed me the way
There were voices down the corridor,
I thought I heard them say...

Welcome to the Hotel California
Such a lovely place (Such a lovely place)
Such a lovely face
Plenty of room at the Hotel California
Any time of year (Any time of year)
You can find it here

Her mind is Tiffany-twisted, she got the Mercedes bends
She got a lot of pretty, pretty boys she calls friends
How they dance in the courtyard, sweet summer sweat.
Some dance to remember, some dance to forget

So I called up the Captain,
"Please bring me my wine"
He said, "We haven't had that spirit here since nineteen sixty nine"
And still those voices are calling from far away,
Wake you up in the middle of the night
Just to hear them say...

Welcome to the Hotel California
Such a lovely place (Such a lovely place)
Such a lovely face
They livin' it up at the Hotel California
What a nice surprise (what a nice surprise)
Bring your alibis

Mirrors on the ceiling,
The pink champagne on ice
And she said "We are all just prisoners here, of our own device"
And in the master's chambers,
They gathered for the feast
They stab it with their steely knives,
But they just can't kill the beast

Last thing I remember, I was
Running for the door
I had to find the passage back
To the place I was before
"Relax, " said the night man,
"We are programmed to receive.
You can check-out any time you like,
But you can never leave! "

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

chào co may, bác Tôm, và chi phuong vy,

****

Yellow River - The Tremeloes – 1970


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2S1zT7fCVI

So long, boy, you can take my place
Got my papers, I got my pay
So, pack my bags, and I'll be on my way
To Yellow River (Yellow River)

Put my guns down, the war is won
Fill my glass high, the war is won
I'm goin' back to the place that I love
Yellow River (Yellow River)

Yellow River, Yellow River
Is in mind, and in my eyes
Yellow River, Yellow River
Is in my blood, it's the place I love

Got no time for explanations, got no time to lose
Tommorow night, you'll find me sleepin' underneath the moon
At Yellow River

Cannon fire lingers in my mind
I'm so glad I am still alive
And I've been gone for such a long time
From Yellow River (Yellow River)

I remember the nights were cool
I can still see the water blue
And I remember the girl that I knew
At Yellow River (Yellow River)

Yellow River, Yellow River
Is in mind, and in my eyes
Yellow River, Yellow River
Is in my blood, it's the place I love

Got no time for explanations, got no time to lose
Tommorow night, you'll find me sleepin' underneath the moon
At Yellow River

Yellow River, Yellow River
Is in mind, and in my eyes
Yellow River, Yellow River
Is in my blood, it's the place I love

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

The Yardbirds - Heart Full Of Soul – 1965


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pM1qZBFiOLU

Sick at heart and lonely,
Deep in dark despair.
Thinking one thought only
Where is she tell me where.
And if she says to you
She don't love me
Just give her my message
Tell her of my plea

And I know if she had me back again
Well I would never make her sad.
I've gotta heart full of soul.

She's been gone such a long time
Longer than I can bear
But if she says she wants me
Tell her that I'll be there
And if she says to you
She don't love me
Just give her my message
Tell her of my plea.

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Orange County có 6 trong số 400 người giàu nhất nước Mỹ

October 19, 201

LOS ANGELES, California (NV) – Trong số 400 người giàu nhất nước Mỹ, 38 người ở Nam California và Orange County có 6 người, báo The Orange County trích thuật bảng xếp hạng hằng năm của tạp chí Forbes.

Tài sản tổng cộng của 38 người có tài sản lớn nhất Nam California là $179 tỉ, với nhà kinh doanh Elon Musk, 46 tuổi, người nổi tiếng với hãng xe hơi Tesla Motors và hãng chế tạo hỏa tiễn SpaceX, đứng đầu trong số này, tài sản của ông được Forbes ước tính vào khoảng $20.8 tỉ, đứng hạng 21 trong danh sách 400 người giàu nhất Hoa Kỳ.

Sáu đại gia ở Orange County gồm ông Donald Bren, 85 tuổi, ở Newport Beach, tài sản trị giá $16.3 tỉ nhờ kinh doanh bất động sản với công ty Irvine Co., đứng hạng thứ 28.

Người kế tiếp là ông David Sun, 66 tuổi, cư dân của Irvine, tài sản trị giá $6 tỉ nhờ hoạt động kinh doanh ở công ty sản xuất bộ nhớ điện tử Kingston, đứng hạng 87.

Người thứ ba là ông Henry Samueli, 63 tuổi, ở Newport Beach, có tài sản trị giá $3.8 tỉ từ công ty sản xuất linh kiện điện tử bán dẫn Broadcom, đứng hạng 186.

Ông Henry Nicholas III, 58 tuổi, ở Newport Coast, có tài sản trị giá $3.3 tỉ từ công ty sản xuất linh kiện điện tử bán dẫn Broadcom, đứng hạng 226.

Ông Bill Gross, 73 tuổi, cư dân Laguna Beach, có tài sản trị giá $2.3 tỉ nhờ đầu tư chứng khoán, đứng hạng 324.

Ông George Argyros, 80 tuổi, ở Newport Beach, với tài sản trị giá $2.4 tỉ nhờ đầu tư vào bất động sản và các thứ khác.


- Tính cả tiểu bang California thì có được 92 người trong danh sách của Forbes, với tổng trị giá tài sản của họ là $613 tỉ.

- Trong khi Bắc California chiếm hết 54 người với tài sản gộp chung lại là $434 tỉ. (TP)

- Tài sản tổng cộng của 38 người có tài sản lớn nhất Nam California là $179 tỉ

- Orange County có 6 người $31.1 tỉ

- ông David Sun, 66 tuổi, cư dân của Irvine, tài sản trị giá $6 tỉ nhờ hoạt động kinh doanh ở công ty sản xuất bộ nhớ điện tử Kingston

https://www.nguoi-viet.com/hoa-ky/400-nguoi-giau-nhat-nuoc-my-orange-county-co-6/

[RaginCajun]

Theo như thống kê trên kia thì CA có thể chống lại liên bang về luật bảo vệ di dân bất hợp pháp vì họ có thể tự lập lo cho di dân bất hợp pháp mà không cần liên bang giúp.

Nghe nhạc tiếp :)

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Theo như thống kê trên kia thì CA có thể chống lại liên bang về luật bảo vệ di dân bất hợp pháp vì họ có thể tự lập lo cho di dân bất hợp pháp mà không cần liên bang giúp.

Nghe nhạc tiếp :)

Bác tom

cali có thể tách rời ra một nước mà vẫn sống hùng sống mạnh, chỉ sợ nước Mỹ tuột dốc không phanh.

"make america bad again"

:) :) :)

Thong đốc lên làm tổng thổng

Có sẵn thượng viện và hạ viện tiểu bang rồi.


Flag
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_California#/media/File:Flag_of_California.svg

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Mời bác Tôm nghe nhạc chọn lọc tiếp.

***
The Trashmen - Surfin Bird - Bird is the Word 1963


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Gc4QTqslN4

A-well-a, everybody's heard about the bird
Bird, bird, bird, b-bird's the word
A-well-a, bird, bird, bird, the bird is the word
A-well-a, bird, bird, bird, well, the bird is the word
A-well-a, bird, bird, bird, b-bird's the word
A-well-a, bird, bird, bird, well, the bird is the word
A-well-a, bird, bird, b-bird's the word
A-well-a, bird, bird, bird, b-bird's the word
A-well-a, bird, bird, bird, well, the bird is the word
A-well-a, bird, bird, b-bird's the word
A-well-a, don't you know about the bird
Well, everybody knows that the bird is the word
A-well-a, bird, bird, b-bird's the word
A-well-a
A-well-a, everybody's heard about the bird
Bird, bird, bird, b-bird's the word
A-well-a, bird, bird, bird, b-bird's the word
A-well-a, bird, bird, bird, b-bird's the word
A-well-a, bird, bird, b-bird's the word
A-well-a, bird, bird, bird, b-bird's the word
A-well-a, bird, bird, bird, b-bird's the word
A-well-a, bird, bird, bird, b-bird's the word
A-well-a, bird, bird, bird, b-bird's the word
A-well-a, don't you know about the bird
Well, everybody's talking about the bird
A-well-a, bird, bird, b-bird's the word
A-well-a, bird
Surfin' bird
Bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb, aaah
Pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa
Pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-ooma-mow-mow
Papa-ooma-mow-mow
Papa-ooma-mow-mow, papa-ooma-mow-mow
Papa-ooma-mow-mow, papa-ooma-mow-mow
Ooma-mow-mow, papa-ooma-mow-mow
Papa-ooma-mow-mow, papa-ooma-mow-mow
Papa-ooma-mow-mow, papa-ooma-mow-mow
Oom-oom-oom-oom-ooma-mow-mow
Papa-ooma-mow-mow, papa-oom-oom-oom
Oom-ooma-mow-mow, papa-ooma-mow-mow
Ooma-mow-mow, papa-ooma-mow-mow
Papa-a-mow-mow, papa-ooma-mow-mow
Papa-ooma-mow-mow, ooma-mow-mow
Papa-ooma-mow-mow, ooma-mow-mow
Papa-oom-oom-oom-oom-ooma-mow-mow
Oom-oom-oom-oom-ooma-mow-mow
Ooma-mow-mow, papa-ooma-mow-mow
Papa-ooma-mow-mow, ooma-mow-mow
Well, don't you know about the bird
Well, everybody knows that the bird is the word
A-well-a, bird, bird, b-bird's the word
Papa-ooma-mow-mow, papa-ooma-mow-mow
Papa-ooma-mow-mow, papa-ooma-mow-mow
Papa-ooma-mow-mow, papa-ooma-mow-mow...

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

I Can't Tell You Why – 1978 – Eagles


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gdkl4-b5ApI

Look at us baby, up all night
Tearing our love apart
Aren't we the same two people who live
through years in the dark?
Ahh...
Every time I try to walk away
Something makes me turn around and stay
And I can't tell you why

When we get crazy,
it just ain't to right,
(try to keep you head, little girl)
Girl, I get lonely, too
You don't have to worry
Just hold on tight
(don't get caught in your little world)
'Cause I love you
Nothing's wrong as far as I can see
We make it harder than it has to be
and I can't tell you why
no, baby, I can't tell you why
I can't tell you why
No, no, baby, I can't tell you why
I can't tell you why
I can't tell you why

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Chào chị thuykhanh.

****
Louie Louie - The Kingsmen – 1965


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4V1p1dM3snQ

Louie, Louie, oh no, I said we gotta go
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah I said
Louie, Louie, oh baby, I said we gotta go

A fine little girl, she waits for me
Me catch a ship across the sea
Me sail that ship all alone
Me never think how I'll make it home

Louie, Louie, no, no, no, no, no, I said we gotta go
Oh no, I said
Louie, Louie, oh baby, I said we gotta go

Three nights and days I sail the sea
I think of girl constantly
On that ship, I dream she there
I smell the rose in her hair

Louie, Louie, oh no, I said we gotta go
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah I said
Louie, Louie, oh baby, I said we gotta go

Okay, let's give it to 'em, right now!

Me see
Me see Jamaican moon above
It won't be long me see me love
Me take her in my arms and then
I tell her I'll never leave again

Louie, Louie, oh no, I said we gotta go
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah I said
Louie, Louie, oh baby, I said we gotta go

I said we gotta go now

Let's get on outta here

Let's go!

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Louis Armstrong - What A Wonderful World (Lyrics) – 1967


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3yCcXgbKrE

I see trees of green,
red roses too.
I see them bloom,
for me and you.
And I think to myself,
what a wonderful world.

I see skies of blue,
And clouds of white.
The bright blessed day,
The dark sacred night.
And I think to myself,
What a wonderful world.

The colors of the rainbow,
So pretty in the sky.
Are also on the faces,
Of people going by,
I see friends shaking hands.
Saying, "How do you do?"
They're really saying,
"I love you".

I hear babies cry,
I watch them grow,
They'll learn much more,
Than I'll ever know.
And I think to myself,
What a wonderful world.

Yes, I think to myself,
What a wonderful world.

Oh yeah.

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

chào chị thuykhanh đã ghé nghe nhạc thập niên 60s.

****
GARY LEWIS & THE PLAYBOYS - 1966 - "Green Grass"


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTcsqiyUuc4

Green
grass 'round my window Young
leaves that, the wind blows Yes
it's, springtime golden, sunshine And
we're glad my, little love and I Now
that summertime is nigh Carefree

kissin' couples Dream
away all their troubles Cause
it's springtime golden, sunshine While
the bluebirds sing their magic song We
will love the summer long All

the winter we've been waitin' Girl
and I anticipatin' What
we're gonna do With
summer overdue Now

it's here we're, out together So
the weatherman had better Do
his best to make a show And
bring the sunshine out to grow The

green grass 'round my window Young
leaves that the wind blows Yes
it’s, springtime golden, sunshine While
the bluebirds sing their magic song We

will love the summer long We
will love the summer long We
will love the summer long We
will love the summer long

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

The Troggs - Wild Thing – 1966


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlLspwQaKqQ

Wild thing
You make my heart sing
You make everything groovy
Wild thing

Wild thing, I think I love you
But I wanna know for sure
So come on and hold me tight
I love you

Wild thing
You make my heart sing
You make everything groovy
Wild thing

Wild thing, I think you move me
But I wanna know for sure
So come on and hold me tight
You move me

Wild thing
You make my heart sing
You make everything groovy
Wild thing

Come on, come on, wild thing
Shake it, shake it, wild thing

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Del Shannon – Runaway – 1961


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziLagAgoPCE

As I walk along, I wonder
A-what went wrong with our love
A love that was so strong

And as I still walk on, I think of
The things we've done together
While our hearts were young

I'm a-walkin' in the rain
Tears are fallin' and I feel the pain
Wishin' you were here by me
To end this misery

I wonder
I wah-wah-wah-wah-wonder
Why
Why, why, why, why, why
She ran away

And I wonder
Where she will stay
My little runaway
A-run, run, run, run, runaway

I'm a-walkin' in the rain
Tears are fallin' and I feel the pain
Wishin' you were here by me
To end this misery

And I wonder
I wah-wah-wah-wah-wonder
Why
Why, why, why, why, why
She ran away

And I wonder
Where she will stay
My little runaway
A-run, run, run, run, runaway
A-run, run, run, run, runaway
A-run, run, run, run, runaway

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

A world without love - Peter and Gordon – 1964


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_lJPUKTchI

Please lock me away
And don't allow the day
Here inside where I hide
With my loneliness

I don't care what they say
I won't stay in a world without love

Birds sing out of tune
And rain outside hide the moon
I'm OK, here I'll stay
With my loneliness

I don't care what they say
I won't stay in a world without love

So I wait and in a while
I will see my true love's smile
He may come, I know not when
When he does I lose
So baby until then

Lock me away
And don't allow the day
Here inside where I hide
With my loneliness

I don't care what they say
I won't stay in a world without love

So I wait and in a while
I will see my true love's smile
He may come, I know not when
When he does I know
So baby until then

Lock me away
And don't allow the day
Here inside where I hide
With my loneliness

I don't care what they say
I won't stay in a world without love

I don't care what they say
I won't stay in a world without love

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Bread - Guitar Man – 1972


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpOjQvADLG4

Who draws the crowd and plays so loud,
Baby it's the guitar man.
Who's gonna steal the show, you know
Baby it's the guitar man,

He can make you love, he can make you cry
He will bring you down, then he'll get you high
Somethin' keeps him goin', miles and miles a day
To find another place to play.

Night after night who treats you right,
Baby it's the guitar man
Who's on the radio, you go listen
To the guitar man

Then he comes to town, and you see his face,
And you think you might like to take his place
Somethin' keeps him driftin' miles and miles away
Searchin' for the songs to play.

Then you listen to the music and you like to sing along,
You want to get the meaning out of each and ev'ry song
Then you find yourself a message and some words to call your own
And take them home.

He can make you love, he can get you high
He will bring you down, then he'll make you cry
Somethin' keeps him movin', but no one seems to know
What it is that makes him go.

Then the lights begin to flicker and the sound is getting dim
The voice begins to falter and the crowds are getting thin
But he never seems to notice he's just got to find
Another place to play,
Fade Away. Got to Play.
Fade Away. Got to Play.

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Imagine - John Lennon – 1971


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_YXSHkAahE

[Verse 1]
Imagine there's no heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us, only sky
Imagine all the people living for today
Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion, too
Imagine all the people living life in peace
You...

[Chorus]
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope some day you'll join us
And the world will be as one

[Verse 2]
Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people sharing all the world

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

REMINISCING, The Little River Band – 1978


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voQWlL-jj5Q

Friday night, it was late
I was walking you home
We got down to the gate
And I was dreaming of the night
Would it turn out right?

How to tell you, girl
I wanna build my world around you
Tell you that it's true
I wanna make you understand
I'm talking about a lifetime plan

That's the way it began
We were hand-in-hand
Glenn Miller's band
Was better than before
We yelled and screamed for more

And the Porter tune (Night and Day)
Made us dance across the room
It ended all too soon
And on the way back home
I promised you'd never be alone

Hurry, don't be late
I can't hardly wait
I said to myself when we're old
We'll go dancing in the dark
Walking through the park
And reminiscing

Friday night, it was late
I was walking you home
We got down to the gate
And I was dreaming of the night
Would it turn out right?

Now as the years roll on
Each time we hear our favorite song
The memories come along
Older times we're missing
Spending the hours reminiscing

Hurry, don't be late
I can't hardly wait
I said to myself when we're old
We'll go dancing in the dark
Walking through the park
And reminiscing

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

England Dan & John Ford Coley...Love is the Answer – 1977


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QZjJU-mtFU

Name your price
A ticket to paradise
I can't stay here anymore

And I've looked high and low
I've been from shore
To shore to shore

If there's a shortcut
I'd have found it
But there is no
Easy way around it

Light of the world, shine on me
Love is the answer
Shine on us all, set us free
Love is the answer

Who knows why
Someday, we all must die
We're all homeless boys and girls
And we are never heard

It's such a lonely
Lonely, lonely world
People turn their heads
And walk on by, tell me
Is it worth just another try

Light of the world, shine on me
Love is the answer (let it shine)
Shine on us all, set us free
Love is the answer

Tell me, are we alive
Or just a dying planet
(What are the chances)
Ask the man in your heart
For the answer

And when you feel afraid
(Love one another)
When you've lost your way
(Love one another)

And when you're all alone
(Love one another)
And when you're far from home
(Love one another)

And when you're down and out
(Love one another)
And when your hopes run out
(Love one another)

And when you need a friend
(Love one another)
And when you're near the end
(Love, we got to love
We got to love one another)

Light of the world, shine on me
Love is the answer
Shine on us all, set us free
Love is the answer

Light of the world, shine on me
Love is the answer
(Shine, shine, shine)
Shine on us all, set us free
Love is the answer

Light of the world, shine on me
Love is the answer
Shine on us all, set us free
Love is the answer

Light of the world, shine on me
Love is the answer...

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Neil Young - Heart of Gold – 1972


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pO8kTRv4l3o

I want to live,
I want to give
I've been a miner for a heart of gold.
It's these expressions
I never give
That keep me searching for a heart of gold.

And I'm getting old.
Keep me searching for a heart of gold
And I'm getting old.

I've been to Hollywood
I've been to Redwood
I crossed the ocean for a heart of gold.
I've been in my mind,
It's such a fine line
That keeps me searching for a heart of gold.

And I'm getting old.
Keeps me searching for a heart of gold
And I'm getting old.

Keep me searching for a heart of gold.
You keep me searching and I'm growing old.
Keep me searching for a heart of gold
I've been a miner for a heart of gold.

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Stephen Bishop : On And On – 1976


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljuJnUYozUg

Down in Jamaica, they got lots of pretty women
Steal your money then they break your heart
Lonesome Sue, she's in love with old Sam
Take him from the fire into the frying pan
On and on
She just keeps on trying
And she smiles
When she feels like crying
On and on, on and on, on and on
Poor ol' Jimmy sits alone in the moonlight
He saw his woman kiss another man
So he takes a ladder, steals the stars from the sky
Puts on Sinatra and starts to cry
On and on
He just keeps on trying
And he smiles
When he feels like crying
On and on, on and on, on and on
When the first time is the last time
It can make you feel so bad
But if you know it, show it
Hold on tight, don't let her say, "Goodnight"
I got the sun on my shoulders and my toes in the sand
My woman's left me for some other man
But I don't care, I'll just dream and stay tan
Toss up my heart to see where it lands

On and on
I just keep on trying
And I smile
When I feel like dying
On and on, on and on, on and on
On and on, on and on, on and on
On and on, on and on, on and on

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

chào sông thuong và chị thuy khanh.

***
Sonny & Cher - I got you babe – 1965


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80QHRTQ3Kmw

They say we're young and we don't know
We won't find out until we're grown
Well I don't know if all that's true
'Cause you got me, and baby I got you

Babe
I got you babe
I got you babe

They say our love won't pay the rent
Before it's earned,
Our money's all been spent
I guess that's so, we don't have a pot
But at least I'm sure
Of all the things we got

Babe
I got you babe
I got you babe

I got flowers in the spring
I got you to wear my ring
And when I'm sad, you're a clown
And if I get scared, you're always around

Don't let them say your hair's too long
'Cause I don't care,
With you I can't go wrong
Then put your little hand in mine
There ain't no hill or mountain
We can't climb

Babe
I got you babe
I got you babe

I got you to hold my hand
I got you to understand
I got you to walk with me
I got you to talk with me
I got you to kiss goodnight
I got you to hold me tight
I got you, I won't let go
I got you to love me so
I got you babe
I got you babe
I got you babe
I got you babe

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

I've Never Been To Me – Charlene – 1977


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3arEmkXZ8s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrIqsFSjqso

Hey lady, you lady
cursing at your life
You're a discontented mother
and a regimented wife
I've no doubt you dream about
the things you'll never do
But,
I wish someone had talked to me
like I wanna talk to you...
Ooh I've been to Georgia and California
and, anywhere I could run
I took the hand of a preacher man
and we made love in the sun
but I ran out of places
and friendly faces
because I had to be free
I've been to paradise
but I've never been to me...

Please lady, please, lady
don't just walk away
'cause I have this need to tell you
why I'm all alone today
I can see so much of me
still living in your eyes
won't you share a part
of a weary heart
that has lived million lies...
Ooh I've been to Nice and the Isle of Greece
while I've sipped champagne on a yacht
I've moved like Harlow in Monte Carlo
and showed 'em what I've got
I've been undressed by kings
and I've seen some things
that a woman ain't supposed to see...
I've been to paradise,
but I've never been to me...

Hey, you know what paradise is? It's a lie. A fantasy we create about
people and places as we'd like them to be.
But you know what truth is?
it's that little baby you're holding
it's that man you fought with this morning
the same one you're going to make love with tonight
that's truth, that's love...
Sometimes I've been to crying for unborn children
that might have made me complete
but I... I took the sweet life
I never knew
I'd be bitter from the sweet
I've spent my life exploring
the subtle whoring
that costs too much to be free...
hey lady...
I've been to paradise...
but I've never been to me..


Tiếng nhật - Mitsuko Komuro

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAa6RqYf7QE

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

JOHNNY RIVERS - Secret Agent Man 1966


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iaR3WO71j4

There's a man who leads a life of danger
To everyone he meets he stays a stranger
With every move he makes
Another chance he takes
Odds are he won't live to see tomorrow

Secret Agent Man
Secret Agent Man
They've given you a number and taken away your name

Beware of pretty faces that you find
A pretty face can hide an evil mind
Oh, be careful what you say
Or you'll give yourself away
Odds are you won't live to see tomorrow

Secret Agent Man
Secret Agent Man
They've given you a number and taken away your name

Swinging on the Riviera one day
And then laying in a Bombay alley next day
Oh, don't you let the wrong words slip
While kissing persuasive lips
Odds are you won't live to see tomorrow

Secret Agent Man
Secret Agent Man
They've given you a number and taken away your name

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

The Seekers - Georgy Girl (1967 - Stereo)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSVfLNCW4Fs

The Seekers
Miscellaneous
Georgy Girl
Georgy Girl

-Artists: The Seekers from "The Seekers Greatest Hits"-Capitol 4XL-9397
-peak Billboard position # 2 in 1966-67
-title song from film starring Lynn Redgrave, James Mason, Alan Bates, and
-Charlotte Rampling
-Words by Jim Dale and Music by Tom Springfield

Hey there, Georgy girl
Swingin' down the street so fancy-free
Nobody you meet could ever see the loneliness there inside you
Hey there, Georgy girl
Why do all the boys just pass you by?
Could it be you just don't try or is it the clothes you wear?

You're always window shopping but never stopping to buy
So shed those dowdy feathers and fly a little bit

Hey there, Georgy girl
There's another Georgy deep inside
Bring out all the love you hide and, oh, what a change there'd be
The world would see a new Georgy girl

Hey there, Georgy girl
Dreamin'; of the someone you could be
Life is a reality, you can't always run away
Don't be so scared of changing and rearranging yourself
It's time for jumping down from the shelf a little bit

Hey there, Georgy girl
There's another Georgy deep inside
Bring out all the love you hide and, oh, what a change there'd be
The world would see a new Georgy girl

(Hey there, Georgy girl)
Wake up, Georgy girl
(Hey there, Georgy girl)
Come on, Georgy girl
FADE
(Hey there, Georgy girl)
Wake up, Georgy girl.

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Donna Summer- Hot Stuff – 1979


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IdEhvuNxV8

Sittin' here eatin' my heart out waitin'
Waitin' for some lover to call
Dialed about a thousand numbers lately
Almost rang the phone off the wall

Lookin' for some hot stuff baby this evenin'
I need some hot stuff baby tonight
I want some hot stuff baby this evenin'
Gotta have some hot stuff
Gotta have some love tonight
I need hot stuff
I want some hot stuff
I need some hot stuff

Lookin' for a lover who needs another
Don't want another night on my own
Wanna share my love with a warm blooded lover
Wanna bring a wild man back home

Gotta have some hot love baby this evenin'
I need some hot stuff baby tonight
I want some hot stuff baby this evenin'
Gotta have some lovin'
Gotta have love tonight
I need hot stuff
Hot love
Lookin' for hot love

[Instrumental Interlude]

How's about some hot stuff baby this evenin'
I need some hot stuff baby tonight
Lookin' for my hot stuff baby this evenin'
I need some hot stuff baby tonight, yeah-yeah
I want some hot stuff this evenin'
I want some hot stuff baby tonight

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Stevie Wonder You Are The Sunshine Of My Life – 1972


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wZ_b_uUAdQ
You are the sunshine of my life
That's why I'll always be around,
You are the apple of my eye,
Forever you'll stay in my heart

I feel like this is the beginning,
Though I've loved you for a million years,
And if I thought our love was ending,
I'd find myself drowning in my own tears

You are the sunshine of my life,
That's why I'll always stay around,
You are the apple of my eye,
Forever you'll stay in my heart

You must have known that I was lonely,
Because you came to my rescue,
And I know that this must be heaven,
How could so much love be inside of you?
You are the sunshine of my life, yeah,
That's why I'll always stay around,
You are the apple of my eye,
Forever you'll stay in my heart

[Background] Love has joined us,
Love has joined us,
Let's think sweet love

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

chào bác Tôm

Bác cũng ưa thích Donna Summer ha!!!

***
Rock The Boat - 1974 - Hues Corporation


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dndAXxqJbc0

So I'd like to know where, you got the notion
Said I'd like to know where, you got the notion
To rock the boat, don't rock the boat baby
Rock the boat, don't tip the boat over
Rock the boat, don't rock the boat baby, rock the boat
Ever since our voyage of love began
Your touch has thrilled me like the rush of the wind
And your arms have held me safe from a rolling sea
There's always been a quiet place to harbor you and me
Our love is like a ship on the ocean
We've been sailing with a cargo full of love and devotion
So I'd like to know where, you got the notion
Said I'd like to know where, you got the notion
To rock the boat, don't rock the boat baby
Rock the boat, don't tip the boat over
Rock the boat, don't rock the boat baby, rock the boat
Up to now we sailed through every storm
And I've always had your tender lips to keep me warm
Oh, I need to have the strength that flows from you
Don't let me drift away my dear, when love can see me through
Our love is like a ship on the ocean
We've been sailing with a cargo full of love and devotion
So I'd like to know where, you got the notion
Said I'd like to know where, you got the notion
So I'd like to know where, you got the notion
Said I'd like to know where, you got the notion
To rock the boat, don't rock the boat baby
Rock the boat, don't tip the boat over
Rock the boat, don't rock the boat baby
Rock the boat, don't tip the boat over, rock the boat, rock the boat
Rock the boat, rock the boat, rock the boat, rock the boat
Rock the boat, rock the boat, rock the boat, rock the boat
Rock the boat, rock the boat, rock the boat, rock the boat
Rock the boat, rock the boat.

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Anita Ward - Ring My Bell – 1979


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9L1h48up0XI

I'm glad you're home, well, did you really miss me?
I guess you did by the look in your eye
(Look in your eye, look in your eye)
Well, lay back and relax, while I put away the dishes
(Away the dishes)
Then you and me can rock a bell

You can ring my bell, ring my bell
You can ring my bell, ring my bell
You can ring my bell, ring my bell
You can ring my bell, ring my bell

The night is young and full of possibilities
Well, come on and let yourself be free
My love for you, so long I've been savin'
(Love for you, love for you)
Tonight was made for me and you

You can ring my bell, ring my bell
(Ring my bell, ding-dong-ding, ah)
You can ring my bell, ring my bell
(Ring my bell, ring-a-ling-a-ling)

You can ring my bell, ring my bell
(Ring my bell, ding-dong-ding, ah)
You can ring my bell, ring my bell
(Ring my bell, ring-a-ling-a-ling)

You can ring my bell, you can ring my bell
Ding, dong, ding, ah, ring it
You can ring my bell, anytime, anywhere
Ring it, ring it, ring it, ring it, ow

You can ring my bell, you can ring my bell
Ding, dong, ding, ah, ring it
You can ring my bell, anytime, anywhere
Ring it, ring it, ring it, ring it, ow

You can ring my bell, ring my bell
(Ring my bell, ding-dong-ding, ah)
You can ring my bell, ring my bell
(Ring my bell, ring-a-ling-a-ling)

You can ring my bell, ring my bell
(Ring my bell, ding-dong-ding, ah)
You can ring my bell, ring my bell
(Ring my bell, ring-a-ling-a-ling)

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

TRACES--THE CLASSICS IV – 1968


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zajDC743KfQ

Faded photograph
Covered now with lines and creases
Tickets torn in half
Memories in bits and pieces

Traces of love long ago
That didn't work out right
Traces of love

Ribbons from her hair
Souvenirs of days together
The ring she used to wear
Pages brown from old love letter

Traces of love long ago
That didn't work out right
Traces of love with me tonight

I close my eyes and say a prayer
That in her heart she'll find
A trace of love still there
Somewhere, oh, oh

Traces of hope in the night
That she'll come back and dry
These traces of tears from my eyes

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Stevie Wonder - My Cherie Amour (1969)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0Gu-CyE-NQ

La la la la la la, La la la la la la

My cherie amour, lovely as a summer day
My cherie amour, distant as the milky way
My cherie amour, pretty little one that I adore
You're the only girl my heart beats for
How I wish that you were mine

In a cafe or sometimes on a crowded street
I've been near you, but you never noticed me
My cherie amour, won't you tell me how could you ignore
That behind that little smile I wore
How I wish that you were mine

La la la la la la, La la la la la la
La la la la la la, La la la la la la

Maybe someday, you'll see my face among the crowd
Maybe someday, I'll share your little distant cloud
Oh, cherie amour, pretty little one that I adore
You're the only girl my heart beats for
How I wish that you were mine

La la la la la la, La la la la la la
La la la la la la, La la la la la la

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

BECAUSE--THE DAVE CLARK FIVE – 1964


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpKWpUJybng

It's right that I should care about you,
And try to make you happy when you're blue.
It's right, it's right to feel the way I do.
Because, because, I love you.

It's wrong to say I don't think of you,
'cause when you say these things
You know it makes me blue.

Give me one kiss and I'll be happy,
Just, just to be with you.
Give me, give me a chance to be near you.
Because, because, I love you.

Give me one kiss and I'll be happy,
Just, just to be with you.
Give me, give me a chance to be near you.
Because, because, I love you.

Because, because, I love you...

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Blood, - Sweat & Tears - You Made Me So Very Happy – 1968


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKuqaZ0DQtk

I lost at love before
Got mad and closed the door
But you said child just once more

I chose you for the one
Now we're havin' so much fun
You treated me so kind
I'm about to lose my mind

You made me so very happy
I'm so glad you
Came into my life

The others were untrue
But when it came to lovin' you
I'd spend my whole life with you

'Cause you came and you took control
You touch my very soul
You always show me that
Lovin' you is where it's at

You made me so very happy
I'm so glad you
Came into my life

Thank you, baby

I love you so much you see
You're even in my dreams
I can hear
Baby, I can hear you calling me
I'm so in love with you
All I ever want to do is
Thank you baby, thank you baby

You made me so very happy
I'm so glad you
Came into my life

You made me so very happy
You made me so, so very happy
I'm so glad you
Came into my life

Mmmm, I want to thank you, girl
Every day of my life
I wanna thank you
You made me so very happy
Oh, I wanna spend my life thanking you
Thank you baby, thank you baby
Thank you baby thank you baby

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Earth, Wind & Fire – September -1977


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs069dndIYk

Do you remember the
21st night of September?
Love was changing the minds of pretenders
While chasing the clouds away

Our hearts were ringing
In the key that our souls were singing.
As we danced in the night,
Remember how the stars stole the night away

Ba de ya - say do you remember
Ba de ya - dancing in September
Ba de ya - never was a cloudy day

Ba duda, ba duda, ba duda, badu
Ba duda, badu, ba duda, badu
Ba duda, badu, ba duda

My thoughts are with you
Holding hands with your heart to see you
Only blue talk and love,
Remember how we knew love was here to stay

Now December found the love we shared in September.
Only blue talk and love,
Remember the true love we share today

Ba de ya - say do you remember
Ba de ya - dancing in September
Ba de ya - never was a cloudy day

There was a
Ba de ya - say do you remember
Ba de ya - dancing in September
Ba de ya - golden dreams were shiny days

The bell was ringing, aha
Our souls were singing
Do you remember
Never a cloudy day

There was a
Ba de ya - say do you remember
Ba de ya - dancing in September
Ba de ya - never was a cloudy day

There was a
Ba de ya - say do you remember
Ba de ya - dancing in September
Ba de ya - golden dreams were shiny days

Ba de ya de ya de ya
Ba de ya de ya de ya
ba de ya de ya de ya
De ya

Ba de ya de ya de ya
Ba de ya de ya de ya
ba de ya de ya de ya

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Kool & The Gang – Celebration – (original 1972)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GwjfUFyY6M

Yahoo!
Celebration
Yahoo!
This is your celebration

Celebrate good times, come on!
(Let's celebrate)
Celebrate good times, come on!
(Let's celebrate)

There's a party goin' on right here
A celebration to last throughout the years
So bring your good times and your laughter too
We gonna celebrate your party with you

Come on now, celebration
Let's all celebrate and have a good time
Celebration
We gonna celebrate and have a good time

It's time to come together
It's up to you, what's your pleasure?
Everyone around the world come on!

Yahoo!
It's a celebration
Yahoo!

Celebrate good times, come on!
(It's a celebration)
Celebrate good times, come on!
(Let's celebrate)

There's a party goin' on right here
A dedication to last throughout the years
So bring your good times and your laughter too
We gonna celebrate and party with you

Come on now, celebration
Let's all celebrate and have a good time, yeah yeah
Celebration
We gonna celebrate and have a good time

It's time to come together
It's up to you, what's your pleasure?
Everyone around the world come on!

Yahoo!
It's a celebration
Yahoo!
It's a celebration

Celebrate good times, come on!
(Let's celebrate come on now)
Celebrate good times, come on!
(Let's celebrate)

We're gonna have a good time tonight
Let's celebrate, it's all right
We're gonna have a good time tonight
Let's celebrate, it's all right, baby

We're gonna have a good time tonight
(Celebration)
Let's celebrate, it's all right
We're gonna have a good time tonight
(Celebration)
Let's celebrate, it's all right

Yahoo!
Yahoo!

Celebrate good times, come on!
(Let's celebrate)
Celebrate good times, come on!
(It's a celebration)

Celebrate good times, come on!
(Let's celebrate)
(Come on and celebrate tonight)
Celebrate good times, come on!
('Cause everything's gonna be alright, let's celebrate)

Celebrate good times, come on!
(Let's celebrate)
Celebrate good times, come on!

[RaginCajun]

Hồi đó cũng thích bài "Cherish" của band này

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Hồi đó cũng thích bài "Cherish" của band này

tui cũng có một CD của the Kool&Gang gồm 10 bài chọn lọc, lâu lâu nghe lại vẫn hay.

****

The Youngbloods - Get Together - 1967


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53XyCbIJGKY

Love is but a song we sing
Fear's the way we die
You can make the mountains ring
Or make the angels cry
Though the bird is on the wing
And you may not know why

Come on, people now
Smile on your brother
Everybody get together
Try to love one another right now

Some may come and some may go
He will surely pass
When the one that left us here
Returns for us at last
We are but a moment's sunlight
Fading in the grass

Come on, people now
Smile on your brother
Everybody get together
Try to love one another right now

Come on, people now
Smile on your brother
Everybody get together
Try to love one another right now

Come on, people now
Smile on your brother
Everybody get together
Try to love one another right now

If you hear the song I sing
You will understand, listen
You hold the key to love and fear
All in your trembling hand
Just one key unlocks them both
It's there at your command

Come on, people now
Smile on your brother
Everybody get together
Try to love one another right now

Come on, people now
Smile on your brother
Everybody get together
Try to love one another right now

I said come on, people now
Smile on your brother
Everybody get together
Try to love one another right now
Right now
Right now

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Yvonne Elliman If I can't have you - 1977


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQ8O9SidZbs

Don't know why
I'm surrounded every lonely day
When there's got to be no chance for me
My life will end and it doesn't matter how I cry
My tears now are a waste of time
If I turn away am I strong enough to see it through
Go crazy is what I'll do
If I can't have you I don't want nobody baby
If I can't have you oh
If I can't have you I don't want nobody baby
Can't let go
And it doesn't matter how I try
I gave it all so easily To you my love
To dreams that never will come true
My tears now are a waste of time
If I turn away am I strong enough to see it through
Go crazy is what I'll do
If I can't have you I don't want nobody baby
If I can't have you oh
If I can't have you no oh yeaaah
If I can't have you I don't want nobody
If I can't have you oh
If I can't have you oh
Am I strong enough to see it through
If I can't have you

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

chào song thuong.

****
ELO - Roll Over Beethoven (Totp 1st Feb 1973)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8TGnAmYc5w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AmqPz23vb8

Gonna write a little letter gonna mail it to me local D.J.
it's a jumpin little record I want my jockey to play
Roll Over Beethoven, gotta hear it again today

My temperature's risin, the juke box's blowin a fuse
My heart's beatin a rhythm, singin out rhythm and blues
Roll Over Beethoven, they're rockin in two by two

Well if you feel you like it, go get your lover and reel and rock it
roll it over and move on up now, go for cover and reel and rock it
roll it over, Roll Over Beethoven, tell Tchaikovsky the news

Early in the mornin I'm a givin you the warnin,
don't you step on my blue suede shoes
hey diddle diddle gonna play my fiddle,
I ain't got nothing to lose
Roll Over Beethoven, tell Tchaikovsky the news

She wiggles like a glow-worm, dances like a spinning top
she got a crazy partner, you should have seen her reel and rock
long as she got a dime, the music will never stop

Well if you feel you like it, go get your lover and reel and rock it
roll it over and move on up now, go for cover and reel and rock it
roll it over, Roll Over Beethoven, dig these rhythm and blues

Roll Over Beethoven, Roll Over Beethoven,
Roll Over Beethoven, Roll Over Beethoven,
Roll Over Beethoven, dig these rhythm and blues?

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds - Fallin' In Love – 1975


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0sTpZja6JQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFBPxVzBhNo

(chorus)
Baby baby, fallin' in love
I'm fallin' in love again
Baby baby, fallin' in love
I'm fallin' in love again

I could never see
what fate had meant for me
And then you came and
made my dreams match reality

Maybe you can see
all the things you've been to me
But my simple fate is at the gate
and girl you've got the key

(chorus)

It seems like yesterday
you and I first loved this way
But now I know how love can grow
with each and every day

As we lay at midnight's hour
and feel love's hidden power
So strong and bold as life unfolds
its mystery to me

(chorus)

You and me for eternity
in love we'll always be
Young and free and that should be
the way it's gotta be

(chorus 2x to fade)

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Queen-We will rock you / We are the champions – 1977


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXp87UZt7gc

Buddy you're a boy make a big noise
Playin' in the street gonna be a big man some day
You got mud on yo' face
You big disgrace
Kickin' your can all over the place
Singin'

We will we will rock you
We will we will rock you

Buddy you're a young man hard man
Shoutin' in the street gonna take on the world some day
You got blood on yo' face
You big disgrace
Wavin' your banner all over the place

We will we will rock you
(Sing it!)
We will we will rock you

Buddy you're an old man poor man
Pleadin' with your eyes gonna make you some peace some day
You got mud on your face
Big disgrace
Somebody better put you back into your place

We will we will rock you
(Sing it!)
We will we will rock you

(Everybody)

We will we will rock you
We will we will rock you

(Alright)

*****

I've paid my dues
Time after time.
I've done my sentence
But committed no crime.
And bad mistakes ‒
I've made a few.
I've had my share of sand kicked in my face
But I've come through.

(And I need just go on and on, and on, and on)

We are the champions, my friends,
And we'll keep on fighting 'til the end.
We are the champions.
We are the champions.
No time for losers
'Cause we are the champions of the world.

I've taken my bows
And my curtain calls.
You brought me fame and fortune, and everything that goes with it.
I thank you all.
But it's been no bed of roses,
No pleasure cruise.
I consider it a challenge before the whole human race,
And I ain't gonna lose.

(And I need just go on and on, and on, and on)

We are the champions, my friends,
And we'll keep on fighting 'til the end.
We are the champions.
We are the champions.
No time for losers
'Cause we are the champions of the world.

We are the champions, my friends,
And we'll keep on fighting 'til the end.
We are the champions.
We are the champions.
No time for losers
'Cause we are the champions.
[Not in the original version:] Of the world

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

A Love Song - Anne Murray – 1974


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2EzSWEpWXU


There's a wren in a willow wood
Flies so high and sings so good
And he brings to you what he sings to you

Like my brother the wren and I
Well, he told if I try, I could fly for you
And I wanna try for you 'cause

[CHORUS]
I wanna sing you a love song
I wanna rock you in my arms all night long
I wanna get to know you
I wanna show you the peaceful feelin' of my home

Summer thunder on moon-bright days
Northern Lights and skies ablaze
And I bring to you, lover, when I sing to you

Silver wings in a fiery sky
Show the trail of my love and I
Sing to you, love is what I bring to you

And I wanna sing to you, oh

[CHORUS]

[CHORUS]

I wanna show you the peaceful feelin' of my home

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

You Light Up My Life by Debbie Boone – 1977


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3ssmH8vjf4

So many nights I'd sit by my window
Waiting for someone to sing me his song
So many dreams I kept deep inside me
Alone in the dark, but now you've come along
And you light up my life
You give me hope to carry on
You light up my days
And fill my nights with song
Rollin' at sea, adrift on the water
Could it be finally I'm turning for home
Finally, a chance to say hey, I love you
Never again to be all alone
'Cause you light up my life
You give me hope to carry on
You light up my days
And fill my nights with song
So many nights I'd sit by my window
Waiting for someone to sing me his song
So many dreams I kept deep inside me
Alone in the dark, but now you've come along
And you light up my life
You give me hope to carry on
You light up my days
And fill my nights with song
Rollin' at sea, adrift on the water
Could it be finally I'm turning for home
Finally, a chance to say hey, I love you
Never again to be all alone
'Cause you light up my life
You give me hope to carry on
You light up my days
And fill my nights with song

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Santa Esmeralda - Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood – 1977


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQc9lQbTWAM

Baby, do you understand me now
Sometimes I feel a little mad
Well don't you know that no-one alive
Can always be an angel
When things go wrong I seem to be bad

'Cause I'm just a soul who's intentions are good
Oh Lord, please don't let me be misunderstood

If I seem edgy, I want you to know
That I never mean to take it out on you
Life has it's problems and I got my share
And that's one thing I never mean to do
'Cause I love you

Baby, don't you know I'm human
And I've got thoughts like any other man
Sometimes I find myself alone and regretting
Some foolish things, some foolish things I've done

But I'm just a soul who's intentions are good
Oh Lord, please don't let me be misunderstood

Oh Lord, don't let me be misunderstood
Don't let me be...
Don't let me be misunderstood

If I seem edgy, I want you to know
That I never mean to take it out on you
Life has it's problems and I got my share
And that's one thing I never mean to do
'Cause I love you

Baby, don't you know I'm human
And I've got thoughts like any other man
Sometimes I find myself alone and regretting
Some foolish things, some foolish things I've done

'Cause I'm just a soul who's intentions are good
Oh Lord, please don't let me be misunderstood

Oh Lord, don't let me be misunderstood
Don't let me be...
Don't let me be misunderstood

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Robert John "Sad Eyes" (1979 - #1 hit)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtdOpnCBLj8

Looks like it's over, you knew I couldn't stay
She's comin' home today
We had a good thing, I'll miss your sweet love
Why must you look at me that way
It's over
Sad eyes, turn the other way
I don't wanna see you cry
Sad eyes, you knew there'd come a day
When we would have to say 'goodbye'
Try to remember the magic that we shared
In time your broken heart will mend
I never used you, you knew I really cared
I hate to see it have to end
But it's over
Sad eyes, turn the other way
I don't wanna see you cry
Sad eyes, you knew there'd come a day
When we would have to say 'goodbye'
[Instrumental Interlude]
Sad eyes, you knew there'd come a day
When we would have to say 'goodbye'
Sad eyes, turn the other way (turn the other way)
I don't wanna see you cry (cry, cry, cry)
Sad eyes, you knew there'd come a day (he-e-e-ey)
When we would have to say 'goodbye'
Sad eyes

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

The Chi-Lites - Oh Girl – 1972


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwjsVD23Z3E

oh girl i'd be in trouble if you left me now
cause i don't know where to look for love
i just don't know how
oooh girl how i depend on you
to give me love when i need it
right on time you were always here
all my friend's call me a fool they say let the woman take care of you
so i tried to be hip and think like the crowd
but even the crowd can't help me now
ooooh wooo wooo woo woo
oh girl tell me what am i gonna do
i know i gotta guilty face
girl i feel so out of place
ooh yeah yeah.
don't know where to go who to see yeeeaaah... oh girl i guess i better go
i can save myself a lot of useless tears
girl i gotta get away from here
ooh girl thing's will double if you leave me now cause I don't know where to look for love and I don't I don't know how
oh yeah mmmm
ooh girl why do i love you so
yeeaah...

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Chào songthuong

***

Styx - Boat On The River – 1979


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9Qs8-BkiLw

Take me back to my boat on the river
I need to go down, I need to come down
Take me back to my boat on the river
And I won't cry out any more
Time stands still as I gaze In her waters
She eases me down, touching me gently
With the waters that flow past my boat on the river
So I don't cry out anymore

Oh the river is wide
The river it touches my life like the waves on the sand
And all roads lead to Tranquillity Base
Where the frown on my face disappears
Take me down to my boat on the river
And I won't cry out anymore

Oh the river is deep
The river it touches my life like the waves on the sand
And all roads lead to Tranquillity Base
Where the frown on my face disappears

Take me down to my boat on the river
I need to go down
Won't you let me go down?
Take me back to my boat on the river
And I won't cry out anymore
And I won't cry out anymore
And I won't cry out anymore

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

The Grass Roots - Temptation Eyes – 1971


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ap0cMhDNMU

She's got something that moves my soul
And she knows
I'd love to love her
But she lets me down every time
Can't make her mine
She's no one's lover

Tonight with me she'll be so inviting
I want her all for myself

Oh, temptation eyes
Looking through my, my, my soul
Temptation eyes
You've got to love me, got to love me tonight

Got to love me, baby, yeah, mmm

Her wild-eyed innocence is just a game
But just the same
My head is spinning
She's got a way to keep me on her side
It's just a ride
It's never-ending

Tonight with me she'll be so exciting
I want her all for myself

Oh, temptation eyes
Looking through my, my, my soul
Temptation eyes
You've got to love me, got to love me tonight

Do you feel it now?

Tonight with me she'll be so exciting
I want her all for myself

Oh, temptation eyes
Looking through my, my, my soul
Temptation eyes
You've got to love me, got to love me tonight

Temptation eyes
Looking through my, my, my soul
Temptation eyes
You're gonna love me, love me tonight

Temptation eyes

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Sugarloaf - Green-Eyed Lady (Original Song HQ) 1970


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_i7PKdQJU4

Green eyed lady, lovely lady
Strolling slowly towards the sun
Green eyed lady, ocean lady
Soothing every wave that comes

Green eyed lady, passion's lady
Dressed in love, she lives for life to be
Green eyed lady feels like I never see
Setting sons and lonely lovers free

Green eyed lady, windswept lady
Moves the night the waves the sand
Green eyed lady, ocean lady
Child of nature, friend of man

Green eyed lady, passion's lady
Dressed in love, she lives for life to be
Green eyed lady feels like I never see
Setting sons and lonely lovers free

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Free - All Right Now – 1970


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siMFORx8uO8

Whoa-oh-oh-oh-woha
There she stood in the street
Smilin' from her head to her feet;

I said, "Hey, what is this?
Now maybe, baby,
Maybe she's in need of a kiss."

I said, "Hey, what's your name?
Maybe we can see things the same.

"Now don't you wait, or hesitate.
Let's move before they raise the parking rate."

All right now, baby, it's a-all right now.
All right now, baby, it's a-all right now.

(Let me tell you now)
I took her home to my place,
Watchin' every move on her face;

She said, "Look, what's your game?
Are you tryin' to put me to shame?"

I said "Slow, don't go so fast, don't you think that love can last?"

She said, "Love, Lord above,
Now you're tryin' to trick me in love."

All right now, baby, it's a-all right now.
All right now, baby, it's a-all right now

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

The Stampeders - Sweet City Woman -1971


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IRjl3SWC2U

Well, I'm on my way, to the city life
To a pretty face that shines her light on the city nights
And I gotta catch a noon train
Gotta be there on time
Oh, it feels so good to know she waits at the end of the line
Swee-ee-eet, sweet city woman
I can see your face, I can hear your voice, I can almost touch you
Swee-ee-eet, sweet city woman
Oh, my banjo and me, we got a feel for singin', yeah, yeah,
Bon c'est bon, bon bon c'est bon, bon,
Bon c'est bon, bon, bon, bon, bon
Bon c'est, bon, bon bon ci'estbon, bon,
Bon c'est bon, bon, bon, bon, bon
So long ma, so long pa, so long
Neighbors and friends
Like a country mornin', all snuggled in dew
Ah she's got a way to make a man feel shiny and new
And she sing in the evenin', oh familiar tunes
And she feeds me love and tenderness and macaroons
Swee-ee-eet, sweet city woman
I can see your face, I can hear your voice, I can almost touch you
Swee-ee-eet, sweet city woman
Oh, my banjo and me, we got a feel for singin'
[Instrumental break]
Da da da da da da ...
Swee-ee-eet, sweet city woman (oh, she's my)
Sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet city woman
Swee-ee-eet, sweet city woman (woah my)
Sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet city woman (everybody)
Sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet city woman (ba da da da, ba da da da)
Sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet city woman (ba da da da, ba da da da)
Sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet city woman (ba da da da, ba da da da)
Sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet city woman (ba da da da, ba da da da)
[Repeat And Fade]

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Kenny Rogers - She Believes In Me – 1978


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSPvv2EUdCA

While she lays sleeping
I stay out late at night and play my songs
And sometimes all the nights can be so long
And it's good when I finally make it home, all alone
While she lays dreaming
I try to get undressed without the light
And quietly she says how was your night
And I come to her and say
It was all right, and I hold her tight

And she believes in me
I'll never know just what she sees in me
I told her someday if she was my girl
I could change the world
With my little songs, I was wrong
But she has faith in me
And so I go on trying faithfully
And who knows maybe on some special night
If my song is right
I can find a way

While she lays waiting
I stumble to the kitchen for a bite
And I see my old guitar in the night
Just waiting for me like a secret friend
And there's no end while she lays crying
I fumble with a melody or two
And I'm torn between the things that I should do
And she says to wake her up when I am through
God her love is true

And she believes in me
I'll never know just what she sees in me
I told her someday if she was my girl
I could change the world
With my little songs, I was wrong
But she has faith in me
And so I go on trying faithfully
And who knows maybe on some special night
If my song is right
I can find a way
While she waits
While she waits
For me

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

The Stylistics - You Make Me Feel Brand New - 1975


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHHL6IEtkcE

My love
I'll never find the words, my love
To tell you how I feel, my love
Mere words could not explain

Precious love
You held my life within your hands
Created everything I am
Taught me how to live again

Only you care when I needed a friend
Believed in me through thick and thin
This song is for you and with gratitude and love

God bless you
You make me feel brand new
For God blessed me with you
You make me feel brand new
I sing this song 'cause you
Make me feel brand new

My love
Whenever I was insecure
You build me up and made me sure
You gave my pride back to me

Precious friend
With you I always had a friend
You're someone who I can depend
To walk a path that sometimes bends

Without you
Life has no meaning or rhyme
Like notes to a song out of time
How can I repay you for having faith in me

God bless you
You make me feel brand new
For God blessed me with you
You make me feel brand new
I sing this song 'cause you
Make me feel brand new

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Orleans - Dance With Me – 1975


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-IXJLgRnvs


Dance with me, I want to be your partner
Can't you see the music is just starting
Night is calling, and I am falling
Dance with me

Fantasy could never be so killing
I feel free, I hope that you are willing
Pick the beat up, and kick your feet up
Dance with me

Let it lift you off the ground
Starry eyes, and love is all around us
I can take you where you want to go

Dance with me, I want to be your partner
Can't you see the music is just starting
Night is calling, and I am falling
Dance with me

[Musical Interlude]

Let it lift you off the ground
Starry eyes, and love is all around us
I can take you where you want to go

Dance with me, I want to be your partner
Can't you see the music is just starting
Night is calling, and I am falling
Dance with me

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

J.D. Souther - You're Only Lonely (1979)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gcg66aVLLmw

When the world is ready to fall on your little shoulders,
And when you're feeling lonely and small,
You need somebody there to hold you.
You can call out my name...when you're only lonely,
Don't you ever be ashamed, you're only lonely,

When you need somebody around on the nights that try you,
(remember) I was there when you were a queen,
And I'll be the last one there beside you.
So you can call out my name...when you're only lonely.
Now, don't you ever be ashamed, you're only lonely,

When the world is ready to fall on your little shoulders,
And when you're feeling lonely and small,
You need somebody there to hold you.
So don't you ever be ashamed, you're only lonely.
Ah, you can call out my name...when you're only lonely,

When you're only lonely...
Ah, it's no crime...darling, we've got lots of time.

Ah, there's nothing wrong with you...
Darling, I get lonely, too.

So if you need me, all you gotta do is call me.
You're only lonely

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Randy Vanwarmer - Just When I Needed You Most – 1979


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBOQgL731Ac

You packed in the morning, I stared out the window
And I struggled for something to say
You left in the rain without closing the door
I didn't stand in your way.
Now I miss you more than I, missed you before
And now where I'll find comfort, God knows
'Cause you left me just when I needed you most
(just when I needed you most)
Now most every morning, I stare out the window
And I think about where you might be
I've written you letters that I'd like to send
If you would just send one to me.
Cause I need you more than I needed before
And now where I'll find comfort, God knows
'Cause you left me just when I needed you most
(yoou left me just when I needed you most.)
You packed in the morning, I stared out the window
And I struggled for something to say
You left in the rain without closing the doo
I didn't stand in your way.
Now I love you more than I loved you before
And now where I'll find comfort, God knows
'Cause you left me just when I needed you most
Oh yeah, you left me just when I needed you most
You left me just when I needed you most.

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

A Taste Of Honey - Boogie Oogie Oogie – 1979


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJxkdgYUoJU

If you're thinkin' you're too cool to boogie
Boy, oh boy, have I got news for you?
Everybody here tonight was boogin'
Let me tell you
You are no exception to the rule
Get on up on the floor
'Cause we're gonna boogie oogie oogie
Till you just can't boogie no more
Boogie no more
You can't boogie no more
(Boogie)
Boogie no more
Listen to the music
There's no time to waste, let's get this show on the road
Listen to the music and let your body float
The sooner we begin the longer we've got the groove
Listen to the music and let your body move
Now get on up on the floor
'Cause we're gonna boogie oogie oogie
Till you just can't boogie no more
Boogie no more
You can't boogie no more
(Boogie)
Boogie no more
Listen to my bass here
Get down, boogie oogie oogie
Get down, boogie oogie oogie
Get down, boogie oogie oogie
Get down

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Captain & Tennille - Do That To Me One More Time -1979


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1h1bBzw8ahE

Do that to me one more time
Once is never enough with a man like you...
Do that to me one more time
I can never get enough of a man like you oh...
Kiss... me... like you just did
Oh baby do that to me once again
Pass that by me one more time
Once just isn't enough for my heart to hear
W-h-o-a
Tell it to me one more time
I can never hear enough while I got ya near
W-h-o-a
Say those words again like you just did
Oh baby tell to me once again...
Do that to me one more time
Once is never enough with a man like you...
W-h-o-a
Do that to me one more time
I can never get enough of a man like you...
W-h-o-a
Kiss... me... like you just did
Oh baby do that to me once again
W-h-o-a baby
Do that to me once again...
W-h-o-a baby
Do that to me one more time
(do it again)
One more time
(do it again)
One more time
(do it again)
One more time
(do it again)
One more time
(do it again)
One more time
(do it again)
One more time

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Rare earth - get ready – 1970


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3Z8NU5ImK0

Never met a girl could make me feel the way that you do
(You're all right)
Whenever I'm asked what makes a my dreams real
I tell 'em you do
(You're outta sight)
Well tweedle dee, tweedle dum
Look out baby 'cause here I come

I'm bringin' you a love that's true, get ready
(Get ready, get ready)
I'll stop makin' love to you, get ready
(Get ready, get ready)

Ohh don't you know I'm comin'?
(Get ready, 'cause here I come)
On my way
(Get ready, 'cause here I come)

You wanna play hide and seek with love, let me remind ya
(You're all right)
Lovin' you're gonna miss, and the time it takes to find ya
(You're outta sight)
Well fe fi fo fo fum, look out baby now here I come

I'm bringin' you a love that's true, aw get ready
(Oh get ready, get ready)
I'll stop makin' love to you, get ready
(Get ready, get ready)

Don't you know I'm comin'?
(Get ready, 'cause here I come)
On my way
(Get ready, 'cause here I come)

If all of my friends shouldn't want me to, I think I'll understand
(You're alright)
Hope I get to you before they do 'cause, that's how I planned it
(You're outta sight)
Well tweedley dee, now tweedley dum, look out baby now here I come

I'm bringin' you a love that's true, get ready
(Get ready, get ready)
I'll stop makin' love to you, get ready
(Get ready, get ready)

Aw don't you know I'm comin'?
(Get ready, 'cause here I come)
On my way
(Get ready, 'cause here I come)

(Get ready, 'cause here I come)
(Get ready, 'cause here I come)
Get ready
(Get ready, 'cause here I come)
Get ready
(Get ready, 'cause here I come)

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

The Four Season - December, 1963 (Oh, What A Night) - 1969


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TM_N97yMhwo

Oh, what a night
Late December, back in '63
What a very special time for me
As I remember, what a night

Oh, what a night
You know, I didn't even know her name
But I was never gonna be the same
What a lady, what a night

Oh, I
I got a funny feeling when she walked in the room
Hey, my
As I recall, it ended much too soon

Oh, what a night
Hypnotizing, mesmerizing me
She was everything I dreamed she'd be
Sweet surrender, what a night

And I felt a rush like a rolling bolt of thunder
Spinning my head around and taking my body under
Oh, what a night

Oh, I
Got a funny feeling when she walked in the room
Hey, my
As I recall, it ended much too soon

Oh, what a night
Why'd it take so long to see the light?
Seemed so wrong, but now it seems so right
What a lady, what a night

Oh, I felt a rush like a rolling bolt of thunder
Spinning my head around and taking my body under
Oh, what a night (Do do do do do, do do do do)
Oh, what a night (Do do do do do, do do do do)
Oh, what a night (Do do do do do, do do do do)
Oh, what a night (Do do do do do, do do do do)
Oh, what a night (Do do do do do, do do do do)
Oh, what a night (Do do do do do, do do do do)
Oh, what a night (Do do do do do, do do do do)

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Harry Belafonte - "Banana Boat Song (Day O)" - 1956


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMigXnXMhQ4

Day-o, day-o
Daylight come and me wan' go home
Day, me say day, me say day, me say day
Me say day, me say day-o
Daylight come and me wan' go home

Work all night on a drink of rum
Daylight come and me wan' go home
Stack banana till de morning come
Daylight come and me wan' go home

Come, Mister tally man, tally me banana
Daylight come and me wan' go home
Come, Mister tally man, tally me banana
Daylight come and me wan' go home

Lift six foot, seven foot, eight foot bunch
Daylight come and me wan' go home
Six foot, seven foot, eight foot bunch
Daylight come and me wan' go home

Day, me say day-o
Daylight come and me wan' go home
Day, me say day, me say day, me say day, me say day, me say day
Daylight come and me wan' go home

A beautiful bunch o' ripe banana
Daylight come and me wan' go home
Hide the deadly black tarantula
Daylight come and me wan' go home

Lift six foot, seven foot, eight foot bunch
Daylight come and me wan' go home
Six foot, seven foot, eight foot bunch
Daylight come and me wan' go home

Day, me say day-o
Daylight come and me wan' go home
Day, me say day, me say day, me say day...
Daylight come and me wan' go home

Come, Mister tally man, tally me banana
Daylight come and me wan' go home
Come, Mister tally man, tally me banana
Daylight come and me wan' go home

Day-o, day-o
Daylight come and me wan' go home
Day, me say day, me say day, me say day
Me say day, me say day-o
Daylight come and me wan' go home

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

The Tokens - The Lion Sleeps Tonight – 1961


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LBmUwi6mEo

Weeheeheehee dee heeheeheehee weeoh aweem away
Weeheeheehee dee heeheeheehee weeoh aweem away
(A-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh)
(A-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh)
In the jungle, the mighty jungle
The lion sleeps tonight
In the jungle the quiet jungle
The lion sleeps tonight
Weeheeheehee dee heeheeheehee weeoh aweem away
Weeheeheehee dee heeheeheehee weeoh aweem away
(A-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh)
(A-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh)
Near the village, the peaceful village,
the lion sleeps tonight.
Near the village, the quiet village,
the lion sleeps tonight.
Weeheeheehee dee heeheeheehee weeoh aweem away
Weeheeheehee dee heeheeheehee weeoh aweem away
(A-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh)
(A-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh)
Hush, my darling, don't fear, my darling,
the lion sleeps tonight
Hush, my darling, don't fear, my darling,
the lion sleeps tonight
Weeheeheehee dee heeheeheehee weeoh aweem away
Weeheeheehee dee heeheeheehee weeoh aweem away

A-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh)
(A-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh)
Weeheeheehee dee heeheeheehee weeoh aweem away.
Weeheeheehee dee heeheeheehee weeoh aweem away'.

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

The Easybeats: Friday on My Mind (1966)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iW2_Ec3uEU

Monday mornin' feels so bad
Ev'rybody seems to nag me
Comin' Tuesday I feel better
Even my old man looks good
Wed'sday just don't go
Thursday goes too slow
I've got Friday on my mind
Gonna have fun in the city
Be with my girl, she's so pretty
She looks fine tonight
She is out of sight to me
Tonight I'll spend my bread, tonight
I'll lose my head, tonight
I've got to get to night
Monday I'll have Friday on my mind
Do the five day grind once more
I know of nothin' else that bugs me
More than workin' for the rich man
Hey! I'll change that scene one day
Today I might be mad,
tomorrow I'll be glad
'Cause I'll have Friday on my mind
Gonna have fun in the city
Be with my girl, she's so pretty
She looks fine tonight.
She is out of sight to me
Tonight I'll spend my bread, tonight
I'll lose my head, tonight
I've got to get to night
Monday I'll have Friday on my mind
Do the five day grind once more
I know of nothin' else that bugs me
More than workin' for the rich man
Hey! I'll change that scene one day
Today I might be mad,
tomorrow I'll be glad
'Cause I'll have Friday on my mind
Gonna have fun in the city
Be with my girl, she's so pretty
She looks fine tonight.
She is out of sight to me
Tonight I'll spend my bread, tonight
I'll lose my head, tonight
I've got to get to night
Monday I'll have Friday on my mind

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Tommy Roe – Sheila – 1962


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_BwauaXAlc

Sweet little Sheila, you'll know her if you see her
Blue eyes and a ponytail
Cheeks are rosy, she looks a little nosy
Man, this little girl is fine
Never knew a girl like a little Sheila
Her name drives me insane
Sweet little girl, that's my little Sheila
Man, this little girl is fine
Me and Sheila go for a ride
Oh-oh-oh-oh, I feel all funny inside
Then little Sheila whispers in my ear
Oh-oh-oh-oh, I love you Sheila dear
Sheila said she loved me, she said she'd never leave me
True love will never die
We're so doggone happy just bein' around together
Man, this little girl is fine
Never knew a girl like a little Sheila
Her name drives me insane
Sweet little girl, that's my little Sheila
Man, this little girl is fine
Me and Sheila go for a ride
Oh-oh-oh-oh, I feel all funny inside
Then little Sheila whispers in my ear
Oh-oh-oh-oh, I love you Sheila dear
Sheila said she loved me, she said she'd never leave me
True love will never die
We're so doggone happy just bein' around together
Man, this little girl is fine
Oh, this little girl is fine
Yeah, this little girl is fine
Oh, this little girl is fine

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

chào sông thương đã ghé nghe nhạc.


***

The Partridge Family-I Can Feel your Heartbeat – 1970



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3fPtMuBtMs

I can feel your heartbeat and you didn't even say a word
I can feel your heartbeat and you didn't even say a word
Oh, I know, pretty woman that your love can be heard

You can feel my heartbeat, too. I can tell you're feelin' me
You can feel my heartbeat, too. I can see you feelin' me
Oh, I know, pretty woman that your love can be heard. Ohhhhh...

We paint the night, let it shine in the light of our love
This is the night - yeah, this is the night of our love
I'll treat you like a woman, love you like a woman
Lord, I'll prove it baby, I'm a man of my word

LICK

Love, love - cantcha feel your heartbeat
Love, love - I can feel your heartbeat
Love, love - cantcha feel your heartbeat, love!

We paint the night, let it shine in the light of our love


This is the night - yeah, this is the night of our love
I'll treat you like a woman, love you like a woman
Lord, I'll prove it baby, I'm a man of my word

LICK

Love, love - cantcha feel your heartbeat
Love, love - I can feel your heartbeat
Love, love - cantcha feel my heartbeat
Love, love - I can feel your heartbeat
Love, love - cantcha feel your heartbeat
Love, love - I can feel your heartbeat
Love, love - cantcha feel it?
Love, love - I can feel it!
Love, love - gettin' stronger!
Love, love - Oh, I can feel it!
Love, love - I can feel it!
Love, love - It's gettin' stronger - LOVE!

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

David Cassidy - Daydreamer (HQ) – 1973


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqPjE7qHJs0

I remember April
when the sun was in the sky

and love was burning in your eyes

Nothing in the world could bother me
'cos I was living in a world of ecstasy.
But now you're gone I'm just a daydreamer
I'm walking in the rain
chasing after rainbows I may never find again

Life is much too beautiful to live it all alone

Oh how much I need someone to call my very own.
Now the summer's over
and I find myself alone
with only memories of you
I was so in love I couldn't see
'cos I was living in a world of make believe.
But now you're gone I'm just a daydreamer

I'm walking in the rain
chasing after rainbows I may never find again

Life is much too beautiful to live it all alone

Oh how much I need someone to call my very own.
I'm just a daydreamer
I'm walking in the rain
chasing after rainbows I may never find again

Life is much too beautiful to live it all alone

Oh how much I need someone to call my very own

I'm just a . . .

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Elton John - Daniel 1973


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0f0TMfQNRk8

Daniel is traveling tonight on a plane
I can see the red tail lights heading for Spain
And I can see Daniel waving goodbye
Oh it looks like Daniel, must be the clouds in my eyes

They say Spain is pretty though I've never been
And Daniel says it's the best place that he's ever seen
He should know, he's been there enough
Oh I miss Daniel, oh I miss him so much, oh

Daniel my brother you are older than me
Do you still feel the pain of the scars that won't heal?
Your eyes have died but you see more than I
Daniel you're a star in the face of the sky

Oh Daniel my brother you are older than me
Do you still feel the pain of the scars that won't heal?
Your eyes have died but you see more than I
Daniel you're a star in the face of the sky

Daniel is traveling tonight on a plane
And I can see the red tail lights heading for Spain
And I can see Daniel waving goodbye
Oh it looks like Daniel, it must be the clouds in my eyes
Oh God it looks like Daniel, must be the clouds in my eyes

Daniel

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

The Association – Cherish – 1972


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E55Ak8WCB1Q

Cherish is the word I use to describe
All the feeling that I have
Hiding here for you inside
You don't know how many times
I've wished that I had told you
You don't know how many times
I've wished that I could hold you
You don't know how many times
I've wished that I could
Mold you into someone who could
Cherish me as much as I cherish you

Perish is the word that more than applies
To the hope in my heart each time I realize
That I am not gonna be the one
To share your dreams
That I am not gonna be the one
To share your schemes
That I am not gonna be the one to share what
Seems to be the life that you could
Cherish as much as I do yours

Oh, I'm beginning to think that man has never found
The words that could make you want me
That have the right amount of letters
Just the right sound
That could make you hear, make you see
That you are drivin' me out of my mind

Oh, I could say I need you
But then you'd realize
That I want you
Just like a thousand other guys
Who'd say they loved you
Like all the rest of their lies
When all they wanted
Was to touch your face your hands
And gaze into your eyes

Cherish is the word I use to describe
All the feeling
That I have hiding here for you inside
You don't know how many times
I've wished that I had told you
You don't know how many times
I've wished that I could hold you
You don't know how many times
I've wished that I could
Mold you into someone who could
Cherish me as much as I cherish you

And I do
Cherish you
And I do
Cherish you

Cherish is the word

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

COPACABANA - BARRY MANILOW – 1973


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kz9Pi7HfPkk

Her name was Lola, she was a showgirl
With yellow feathers in her hair and a dress cut down to there
She would merengue and do the cha-cha
And while she tried to be a star
Tony always tended bar
Across the crowded floor, they worked from 8 til 4
They were young and they had each other
Who could ask for more?

[Chorus:]
At the copa (CO!) Copacabana (Copacabana)
The hottest spot north of Havana (here)
At the copa (CO!) Copacabana
Music and passion were always the fashion
At the copa.... they fell in love

His name was Rico
He wore a diamond
He was escorted to his chair, he saw Lola dancing there
And when she finished, he called her over
But Rico went a bit too far
Tony sailed across the bar
And then the punches flew and chairs were smashed in two
There was blood and a single gun shot
But just who shot who?

[Chorus]

At the copa... she lost her love

Her name is Lola, she was a showgirl
But that was 30 years ago, when they used to have a show
Now it's a disco, but not for Lola
Still in the dress she used to wear
Faded feathers in her hair
She sits there so refined, and drinks herself half-blind
She lost her youth and she lost her Tony
Now she's lost her mind

[Chorus]

At the copa... don't fall in love
Don't fall in love

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Marmalade - Reflections Of My Life - 1968


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZKpiVHvBhY

the changing of sunlight to moonlight
reflections of my life
oh how they fill my eyes
[repeat: x 2]
the greetings of people in trouble
reflections of my life
oh how they fill my eyes
[chorus]
oh my sorrows
sad tomorrows
take me back to my own home
[chorus: x 2]
oh my crying (oh my crying)
feel i’m dying, dying
take me back
to my own home
the changing of sunlight to moonlight
reflections of my life
oh how they fill my eyes
i’m changing, arranging,
i’m changing,
i’m changing everything
everything around me
the changing of sunlight to moonlight
reflections of my life
oh how they fill my eyes
the world is
a bad place
a bad place
a terrible place to live
oh but i don’t want to die …
[chorus: x 2]

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Melissa Manchester - Midnight Blue – 1975


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-7yzvezAMY

Whatever it is, it'll keep till the morning
Haven't we both got better things to do?
Midnight blue
Even the simple things become rough
Haven't we had enough?

And I think we can make it
One more time
If we try
One more time for all the old times

For all of the times you told me you need me
Needing me now is something I could use
Midnight blue
Wouldn't you give your hand to a friend?
Maybe it's not the end

And I think we can make it
One more time
If we try
One more time for all the old times
Midnight blue

I think we can make it
I think we can make it
Oh, wouldn't you give your heart to a friend?
Think of me as your friend

And I think we can make it
One more time
If we try
One more time for all of the old, old times

One more time
I think we can make it
If we try
I think we can make it
If we try
Looks like we're gonna make it
Looks like we're gonna make it
If we try
I think we can make it
...

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

War - Low Rider - 1975


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_iJ28iXwo0

All my friends know the low rider
The low rider is a little higher
Low rider drives a little slower
Low rider is a real goer
Low rider knows every street, yeah
Low rider is the one to meet, yeah
Low rider don't use no gas now
Low rider don't drive too fast
Take a little trip, take a little trip
Take a little trip and see
Take a little trip, take a little trip
Take a little trip with me

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye - Steam - 1969


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZkYGcz1DgI

Na na na na
Na na na na
Hey hey hey
Goodbye

He'll never love you
The way that I love you
'Cause if he did, oh no, he wouldn't
Make you cry

He might be thrilling, baby, but my love's
So doggone willing, so kiss him
(Wanna see you kiss him)
Go on and kiss him goodbye

Na na na na
Na na na na
Hey hey hey
Goodbye

Na na na na
Na na na na
Hey hey hey
Goodbye

He's never near you
To comfort and cheer you
When all those sad tears
Are falling, baby, from your eyes

He might be thrilling, baby, but my love's
So doggone willing, so kiss him
(Wanna see you kiss him)
Go on and kiss him goodbye

Na na na na
Na na na na
Hey hey hey
Goodbye

Na na na na
Na na na na
Hey hey hey
Goodbye

Na na na na
Na na na na
Hey hey hey
Goodbye

...

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Boney M. – Rasputin – 1978


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYnVYJDxu2Q

There lived a certain man in Russia long ago
He was big and strong, in his eyes a flaming glow
Most people looked at him with terror and with fear
But to Moscow chicks he was such a lovely dear
He could preach the bible like a preacher
Full of ecstasy and fire
But he also was the kind of teacher
Women would desire

RA RA RASPUTIN
Lover of the Russian queen
There was a cat that really was gone
RA RA RASPUTIN
Russia's greatest love machine
It was a shame how he carried on

He ruled the Russian land and never mind the Czar
But the kasachok he danced really wunderbar
In all affairs of state he was the man to please
But he was real great when he had a girl to squeeze
For the queen he was no wheeler dealer
Though she'd heard the things he'd done
She believed he was a holy healer
Who would heal her son

RA RA RASPUTIN
Lover of the Russian queen
There was a cat that really was gone
RA RA RASPUTIN
Russia's greatest love machine
It was a shame how he carried on

[Spoken:]
But when his drinking and lusting and his hunger
For power became known to more and more people
The demands to do something about this outrageous
Man became louder and louder

"This man's just got to go!" declared his enemies
But the ladies begged "Don't you try to do it, please"
No doubt this Rasputin had lots of hidden charms
Though he was a brute they just fell into his arms
Then one night some men of higher standing
Set a trap, they're not to blame
"Come to visit us" they kept demanding
And he really came

RA RA RASPUTIN
Lover of the Russian queen
They put some poison into his wine
RA RA RASPUTIN
Russia's greatest love machine
He drank it all and he said "I feel fine"

RA RA RASPUTIN
Lover of the Russian queen
They didn't quit, they wanted his head
RA RA RASPUTIN
Russia's greatest love machine
And so they shot him till he was dead

[Spoken:] Oh, those Russians...

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

THE SHIRELLES - Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow – 1960


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3irmBv8h4Tw

Tonight you're mine completely
You give your love so sweetly
Tonight the light of love is in your eyes
But will you love me tomorrow?
Is this a lasting treasure
Or just a moment's pleasure?
Can I believe the magic of your sighs?
Will you still love me tomorrow?
Tonight with words unspoken
You say that I'm the only one
But will my heart be broken
When the night meets the morning sun?

I'd like to know that your love
Is love I can be sure of
So tell me now, and I won't ask again
Will you still love me tomorrow?
Will you still love me tomorrow

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

The Outsiders - "Time Won't Let Me" – 1966


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yQERVphWhY

I can't wait
Forever
Even though you want me to
I can't wait
Forever
To know if you'll be true
Time won't let me, (oh no)
Time won't let me, (oh no)
Time won't let me.ee.ee.
Wait that long
Can't you see
I've waited too long
To Love You
To hold you in my arms
Time won't let me, (oh no)
Time won't let me, (oh no)
Time won't let me.ee.ee.
Ahhh... Ahhh... Ahhh... Ah!
I can't wait
Forever
Even though you want me to
I can't wait forever
To know if you'll be true
Time won't let me, (oh no)
Time won't let me, (oh no)
Time won't let me.ee.ee.
Wait that long
It won't let me wait that long
It won't let me wait that long
Don't wanna wait that long
Not gonna wait that long
For you lovin' baby baby
Not gonna wait that long

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

The Real Ritchie Valens - La Bamba - 1958


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jp6j5HJ-Cok

Para bailar la bamba
Para bailar la bamba se necesita
Una poca de gracia
Una poca de gracia, pa mi pa ti

Ay y arriba y arriba
Ay y arriba y arriba por ti seré
Por ti seré
Por ti seré

Yo no soy marinero
Yo no soy marinero
Soy capitan
Soy capitan, soy capitan

Bamba, bamba
Bamba, bamba
Bamba, bamba
Bam

Parar bailar la bamba
Para bailar la bamba se necesita
Una poca de gracia
Una poca de gracia pa mi pa ti
Ay y arriba y arriba

Parar bailar la bamba
Para bailar la bamba se necesita
Una poca de gracia
Una poca de gracia pa mi pa ti

Ay y arriba y arriba
Ay y arriba y arriba por ti seré
Por ti seré
Por ti seré

Bamba, bamba
Bamba, bamba
Bamba, bamba

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Bobby Darin - Dream Lover – 1958


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVHAQX5sSaU

Every night I hope and pray
A dream lover will come my way
A girl to hold in my arms
And know the magic of her charms
'Cause I want (yeah-yeah, yeah)
A girl (yeah-yeah, yeah)
To call (yeah-yeah, yeah)
My own (yeah-yeah)
I want a dream lover
So I don't have to dream alone

Dream lover, where are you
With a love, oh, so true
And the hand that I can hold
To feel you near as I grow old
'Cause I want (yeah-yeah, yeah)
A girl (yeah-yeah, yeah)
To call (yeah-yeah, yeah)
My own (yeah-yeah, yeah)
I want a dream lover
So I don't have to dream alone

Someday, I don't know how
I hope she'll hear my plea
Some way, I don't know how
She'll bring her love to me

Dream lover, until then
I'll go to sleep and dream again
That's the only thing to do
Till all my lover's dreams come true
'Cause I want (yeah-yeah, yeah)
A girl (yeah-yeah, yeah)
To call (yeah-yeah, yeah)
My own (yeah-yeah, yeah)
I want a dream lover
So I don't have to dream alone

Dream lover, until then
I'll go to sleep and dream again
That's the only thing to do
Till all my lover's dreams come true
'Cause I want (yeah-yeah, yeah)
A girl (yeah-yeah, yeah)
To call (yeah-yeah, yeah)
My own (yeah-yeah)
I want a dream lover
So I don't have to dream alone

Please don't make me dream alone
I beg you don't make me dream alone
No, I don't wanna dream

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Player - Baby Come Back – 1967


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hn-enjcgV1o

Spending all my nights, all my money going out on the town
Doing anything just to get you off of my mind
But when the morning comes, I'm right back where I started again
Trying to forget you is just a waste of time

Baby come back, any kind of fool could see
There was something in everything about you
Baby come back, you can blame it all on me
I was wrong, and I just can't live without you

All day long, wearing a mask of false bravado
Trying to keep up the smile that hides a tear
But as the sun goes down, I get that empty feeling again
How I wish to God that you were here

Baby come back, any kind of fool could see
There was something in everything about you
Baby come back, you can blame it all on me
I was wrong, and I just can't live without you

Now that I put it all together
Give me the chance to make you see
Have you used up all the love in your heart
Nothing left for me, ain't there nothing left for me

Baby come back, any kind of fool could see
There was something in everything about you
Baby come back, you can blame it all on me
I was wrong and I just can't live without you
I was wrong and I just can't live

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

The Supremes - Baby Love - "Top Of The Pops" Show (1964)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4iIXC5sk8M

Ooh baby love, my baby love
I need you, oh how I need you
But all you do is treat me bad
Break my heart and leave me sad
Tell me, what did I do wrong
To make you stay away so long
'Cause baby love, my baby love
Been missing ya, miss kissing ya
Instead of breaking up
Let's do some kissing and making up
Don't throw our love away
In my arms why don't you stay
Need ya, need ya
Baby love, ooh, baby love
Ooh, ooh, need to hold you
Once again, my love
Feel your warm embrace, my love
Don't throw our love away
Please don't do me this way
Not happy like I used to be
Loneliness has got the best of me
My love, my baby love
I need you, oh how I need you
Why you do me like you do
After I've been true to you
So deep in love with you
Baby, baby, ooh 'til it's hurtin' me
'Til it's hurtin' me
Ooh, baby love
Don't throw our love away
Don't throw our love away

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Donny Osmond - Puppy Love (1972)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mkn1kFmUW5E

And they called it puppy love
Oh I guess they'll never know
How a young heart really feels
And why I love her so

And they called it puppy love
Just because we're in our teens
Tell them all, please tell them it isn't fair
To take away my only dream

I cry each night my tears for you
My tears are all in vain
I hope and I pray that maybe someday
You'll be back (you'll be back) in my arms (in my arms)
Once again (you'll be back in my arms once again)

Someone help me, help me, help me please
Is the answer up above?
How can I, oh how can I tell them
This is not a puppy love

Someone help me, help me, help me please
Is the answer up above?
How can I, oh how can I tell them
This is not a puppy love

(This is not a puppy love)
(This is not a puppy love)
Not a puppy love
(This is not a puppy love)
(This is not a puppy love)

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Marie Osmond singing Paper Roses - Top of the Pops - 1973


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWoEEZMYHCU

I realize the way your eyes deceived me
With tender looks that I mistook for love;
So take away the flowers that you gave me
And send the kind that you remind me of.
Paper Roses
paper Roses
Oh how real those roses seem to be!
But they're only imitation
Like your imitation love for me.
I thought that you would be a perfect lover
You seemed so full of sweetness at the start;
But like a big red rose that's made of paper
There isn't any sweetness in your heart.
I realize the way your eyes deceived me
With tender looks that I mistook for love;
So take away the flowers that you gave me
And send the kind that you remind me of.
Paper Roses
paper Roses
Oh how real those roses seem to be!
But they're only imitation
Like your imitation love for me.
I thought that you would be a perfect lover
You seemed so full of sweetness at the start;
But like a big red rose that's made of paper
There isn't any sweetness in your heart.

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

chào bác Tôm và nganha.

***

The Supremes: You Can't Hurry Love - Original (Take 1) – 1966


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQ7uXX9K7Sk

I need love, love
To ease my mind
I need to find, find someone to call mine
But mama said

You can't hurry love
No, you just have to wait
She said love don't come easy
It's a game of give and take

You can't hurry love
No, you just have to wait
You got to trust, give it time
No matter how long it takes

But how many heartaches
Must I stand before I find a love
To let me live again
Right now the only thing
That keeps me hangin' on
When I feel my strength, yeah
It's almost gone
I remember mama said:

You can't hurry love
No, you just have to wait
She said love don't come easy
It's a game of give and take

How long must I wait
How much more can I take
Before loneliness will cause my heart
Heart to break?

No I can't bear to live my life alone
I grow impatient for a love to call my own
But when I feel that I, I can't go on
These precious words keeps me hangin' on
I remember mama said:

You can't hurry love
No, you just have to wait
She said love don't come easy
It's a game of give and take

You can't hurry love
No, you just have to wait
She said trust, give it time
No matter how long it takes

No, love, love don't come easy
But I keep on waiting
Anticipating for that soft voice
To talk to me at night
For some tender arms
To hold me tight
I keep waiting
I keep on waiting
But it ain't easy
It ain't easy
But mama said:

You can't hurry love
No, you just have to wait
She said to trust, give it time
No matter how long it takes

You can't hurry love
No, you just have to wait
She said love don't come easy
It's a game of give and take
[repeat and fade]

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Bread - Make it with you (1970)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0KXV0gB0dw

Hey, have you ever tried
Really reaching out for the other side
I may be climbing on rainbows
But baby, here goes

Dreams, they're for those who sleep
Life is for us to keep
And if you're wondering what this song is leading to
I want to make it with you
I really think that we could make it, girl

No, you don't know me well
In every little thing only time will tell
But you believe the things that I do
And we'll see it through

Life can be short or long
Love can be right or wrong
And if I chose the one I'd like to help me through
I'd like to make it with you
I really think that we could make it, girl

Baby, you know that dreams, they're for those who sleep
Life is for us to keep
And if I chose the one I'd like to help me through
I'd like to make it with you
I really think that we could make it, girl

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Mr. Bojangles - Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - 1970


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-LVXR6rjXs

I knew a man Bojangles and he'd dance for you
In worn out shoes
With silver hair, a ragged shirt, and baggy pants
The old soft shoe
He jumped so high, jumped so high
Then he lightly touched down

I met him in a cell in New Orleans I was
down and out
He looked to me to be the eyes of age
as he spoke right out
He talked of life, talked of life, he laughed
clicked his heels and stepped

He said his name "Bojangles" and he danced a lick
across the cell
He grabbed his pants and spread his stance,
Oh he jumped so high and then he clicked his heels
He let go a laugh, let go a laugh
and shook back his clothes all around

Mr. Bojangles, Mr. Bojangles
Mr. Bojangles, dance

He danced for those at minstrel shows and county fairs
throughout the south
He spoke through tears of 15 years how his dog and him
traveled about
The dog up and died, he up and died
And after 20 years he still grieves

He said I dance now at every chance in honky tonks
for drinks and tips
But most the time I spend behind these county bars
'cause I drinks a bit
He shook his head, and as he shook his head
I heard someone ask him please

Mr. Bojangles, Mr. Bojangles
Mr. Bojangles, dance..

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Pure Prairie League -Amie (High Quality) – 1972


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4xp2lgiAjY

I can see why you think you belong to me
i never tried to make you think, or let you see one thing for yourself
but now your off with someone else and i'm alone
you see i thought that i might keep you for my own
Amie what you wanna do?
i think i could stay with you
for a while, maybe longer if i do
Don't you think the time is right for us to find
all the things we thought weren't proper could be right in time
and can you see
which way we should turn together or alone
i can never see whats right or what is wrong
(will it take to long to see)
Amie what you wanna do?
i think i could stay with you
for a while, maybe longer if i do
(acoustic solo)
Well now
amie what you wanna do?
i think i could stay with you
for a while, maybe longer if i do
Now it's come to what you want you've had your way
and all the things you thought before just faded into gray
and can you see
that i don't know if it's you or if it's me
if it's one of us i'm sure we'll both will see
won't you look at me and tell me
Amie what you wanna do?
i think i could stay with you
for a while, maybe longer
longer if i do
Yeah now
amie what you wanna do?
i think i could stay with you
for a while, maybe longer if i do
Fallin' in and out of love with you
fallin' in and out of love with you
don't know what i'm gonna do, i'd keep
fallin' in and out of love
with you

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Joni Mitchell - Help Me (1974)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOEE-kR-Txg

Help me
I think I'm falling
In love again
When I get that crazy feeling
I know I'm in trouble again
I'm in trouble
'Cause you're a rambler and a gambler
And a sweet talking ladies man
And you love your lovin'
But not like you love your freedom

Help me
I think I'm falling
In love too fast
It's got me hoping for the future
And worrying about the past
'Cause I've seen some hot, hot blazes
Come down to smoke and ash
We love our lovin'
But not like we love our freedom

Didn't it feel good
We were sitting there talking
Or lying there not talking
Didn't it feel good
You dance with the lady
With the hole in her stocking
Didn't it feel good
Didn't it feel good

Help me
I think I'm falling
In love with you
Are you going to let me go there by myself
That's such a lonely thing to do
Both of us flirting around
Flirting and flirting
Hurting too
We love our lovin'
But not like we love our freedom

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Linda Ronstadt - Long Long Time – 1969


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKAtM9xS-fA

Love will abide, take things in stride
Sounds like good advice but there's no one at my side
And time washes clean love's wounds unseen
That's what someone told me but I don't know what it means.

Cause I've done everything I know to try and make you mine
And I think I'm gonna love you for a long long time

Caught in my fears
Blinking back the tears
I can't say you hurt me when you never let me near
And I never drew one response from you
All the while you fell all over girls you never knew
Cause I've done everything I know to try and make you mine
And I think it's gonna hurt me for a long long time

Wait for the day
You'll go away
Knowing that you warned me of the price I'd have to pay
And life's full of flaws
Who knows the cause?
Living in the memory of a love that never was
Cause I've done everything I know to try and change your mind
and I think I'm gonna miss you for a long long time
Cause I've done everything I know to try and make you mine
And I think I'm gonna love you for a long long time.

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

chao comay ghé thăm.

Xem thời tiết Trời Sai Gòn, dạo này trưa thì 32 độ, 8 giờ tối thì 28 độ, khuya thì 24 độ.

Hồi còn nhỏ trời nóng hay cởi trần mặc quần xà lỏng đi dạo phố ngã ba ông tạ, không biết mắc cở là gì.

Lớn một chút biết mắc cở thì chơi sang một chút mặc chiếc áo may ô.

Lớn hơn chút nữa thì áo sơ mi ngắn tay quần cụt.

Tới tuổi đi cua đào thì mới đóng bộ, nhưng cũng chỉ áo sơ mi ngắn tay và quần dài là sang rồi.

Công nhận giờ nghĩ lại trời Sài Gòn nóng thiệt tình!!!

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Donna Summer- Hot Stuff – 1979


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IdEhvuNxV8

Sittin' here eatin' my heart out waitin'
Waitin' for some lover to call
Dialed about a thousand numbers lately
Almost rang the phone off the wall

Lookin' for some hot stuff baby this evenin'
I need some hot stuff baby tonight
I want some hot stuff baby this evenin'
Gotta have some hot stuff
Gotta have some love tonight
I need hot stuff
I want some hot stuff
I need some hot stuff

Lookin' for a lover who needs another
Don't want another night on my own
Wanna share my love with a warm blooded lover
Wanna bring a wild man back home

Gotta have some hot love baby this evenin'
I need some hot stuff baby tonight
I want some hot stuff baby this evenin'
Gotta have some lovin'
Gotta have love tonight
I need hot stuff
Hot love
Lookin' for hot love

[Instrumental Interlude]

How's about some hot stuff baby this evenin'
I need some hot stuff baby tonight
Lookin' for my hot stuff baby this evenin'
I need some hot stuff baby tonight, yeah-yeah
I want some hot stuff this evenin'
I want some hot stuff baby tonight

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

The Who - Won't Get Fooled Again – 1977


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYMD_W_r3Fg

We'll be fighting in the streets
With our children at our feet
And the morals that they worship will be gone
And the men who spurred us on
Sit in judgement of all wrong
They decide and the shotgun sings the song

I'll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again

The change, it had to come
We knew it all along
We were liberated from the fold, that's all
And the world looks just the same
And history ain't changed
'Cause the banners, they are flown in the last war

I'll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again
No, no!

I'll move myself and my family aside
If we happen to be left half alive
I'll get all my papers and smile at the sky
Oh I know that the hypnotized never lie
Do ya?

There's nothing in the streets
Looks any different to me
And the slogans are replaced, by the bye
And a parting on the left
Is now a parting on the right
And the beards have all grown longer overnight

I'll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again
Don't get fooled again
No, no!

Meet the new boss
Same as the old boss

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Y.M.C.A. – village people -1979


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMPSyOB2qNo

Young man, there's no need to feel down.
I said, young man, pick yourself off the ground.
I said, young man, 'cause you're in a new town
There's no need to be unhappy.

Young man, there's a place you can go.
I said, young man, when you're short on your dough.
You can stay there, and I'm sure you will find
Many ways to have a good time.

It's fun to stay at the Y.M.C.A.
It's fun to stay at the Y.M.C.A.

They have everything for young men to enjoy,
You can hang out with all the boys...

It's fun to stay at the Y.M.C.A.
It's fun to stay at the Y.M.C.A.

You can get yourself clean, you can have a good meal,
You can do whatever you feel...

Young man, are you listening to me?
I said, young man, what do you want to be?
I said, young man, you can make real your dreams.
But you got to know this one thing!

No man does it all by himself.
I said, young man, put your pride on the shelf,
And just go there, to the Y.M.C.A.
I'm sure they can help you today.

It's fun to stay at the Y.M.C.A.
It's fun to stay at the Y.M.C.A.

They have everything for young men to enjoy,
You can hang out with all the boys...

It's fun to stay at the Y.M.C.A.
It's fun to stay at the Y.M.C.A.

You can get yourself clean, you can have a good meal,
You can do whatever you feel...

Young man, I was once in your shoes.
I said, I was down and out with the blues.
I felt no man cared if I were alive.
I felt the whole world was so jive...

That's when someone came up to me,
And said, young man, take a walk up the street.
There's a place there called the Y.M.C.A.
They can start you back on your way.

It's fun to stay at the Y.M.C.A.
It's fun to stay at the Y.M.C.A.

They have everything for young men to enjoy,
You can hang out with all the boys...

Y.M.C.A... you'll find it at the Y.M.C.A.

Young man, young man, there's no need to feel down.
Young man, young man, get yourself off the ground.

Y.M.C.A... you'll find it at the Y.M.C.A.

Young man, young man, there's no need to feel down.
Young man, young man, get yourself off the ground.

Y.M.C.A... just go to the Y.M.C.A.

Young man, young man, are you listening to me?
Young man, young man, what do you wanna be?

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

I will survive - Gloria Gaynor -1978


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tth-8wA3PdY

At first I was afraid, I was petrified,
Kept thinking I could never live without you by my side
But then I spent so many nights thinking how you did me wrong,
And I grew strong, and I learned how to get along.

And so you're back from outer space.
I just walked in to find you here with that sad look upon your face
I should have changed that stupid lock
I should have made you leave your key
If I had known for just one second you'd be back to bother me

Go on now, go. Walk out the door
Just turn around now 'cause you're not welcome anymore
Weren't you the one who tried to hurt me with goodbye?
Did you think I'd crumble?
Did you think I'd lay down and die?

Oh, no, not I!
I will survive.
Oh, as long as I know how to love I know I'll stay alive.
I've got all my life to live.
I've got all my love to give.
And I'll survive,
I will survive, hey, hey.

It took all the strength I had not to fall apart.
Kept trying hard to mend the pieces of my broken heart.
And I spent, oh, so many nights just feeling sorry for myself.
I used to cry but now I hold my head up high.

And you see me somebody new.
I'm not that chained-up little person still in love with you.
And so you felt like dropping in,
And just expect me to be free.
And now I'm saving all my loving for someone who's loving me.

[2x]
Go on now, go. Walk out the door.
Just turn around now 'cause you're not welcome anymore.
Weren't you the one who tried to break me with goodbye?
Did you think I'd crumble?
Did you think I'd lay down and die?
Oh, no, not I!
I will survive.
Oh, as long as I know how to love I know I'll stay alive.
I've got all my life to live.
I've got all my love to give.
And I'll survive,
I will survive.

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Al Stewart - Year Of The Cat – 1976


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqZc7ZQURMs

On a morning from a Bogart movie
In a country where they turn back time
You go strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre
Contemplating a crime

She comes out of the sun in a silk dress running
Like a watercolor in the rain
Don't bother asking for explanations
She'll just tell you that she came

In the year of the cat

She doesn't give you time for questions
As she locks up your arm in hers
And you follow till your sense of which direction
Completely disappears

By the blue tiled walls near the market stalls
There's a hidden door she leads you to
These days, she says, "I feel my life
Just like a river running through"

The year of the cat

Why she looks at you so coolly?
And her eyes shine like the moon in the sea
She comes in incense and patchouli
So you take her, to find what's waiting inside

The year of the cat

Well morning comes and you're still with her
And the bus and the tourists are gone
And you've thrown away your choice and lost your ticket
So you have to stay on

But the drumbeat strains of the night remain
In the rhythm of the new-born day
You know sometime you're bound to leave her
But for now you're going to stay

In the year of the cat
Year of the cat

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

If – Bread – 1977


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGfVOdTiUEc

If a picture paints a thousand words
Then why can't I paint you?
The words will never show
The you I've come to know

If a face could launch a thousand ships
Then where am I to go?
There's no one home but you
You're all that's left me too
And when my love for life is running dry
You come and pour yourself on me

If a man could be two places at one time
I'd be with you
Tomorrow and today
Beside you all the way

If the world should stop revolving
Spinning slowly down to die
I'd spend the end with you
And when the world was through
Then one by one the stars would all go out
Then you and I would simply fly away

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Righteous Brothers - Unchained Melody [Live - Best Quality] (1965)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYj2hex99gY

Oh, my love
My darling
I've hungered for your touch
A long, lonely time

And time goes by so slowly
And time can do so much
Are you still mine?

I need your love
I need your love
God speed your love to me

Lonely rivers flow to the sea, to the sea
To the open arms of the sea
Yes, lonely rivers sigh, "Wait for me, wait for me
I'll be coming home, wait for me"

Oh, my love
My darling
I've hungered, hungered for your touch
A long, lonely time

And time goes by so slowly
And time can do so much
Are you still mine?

I need your love
I need your love
God speed your love to me

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Nancy Sinatra - These Boots Are Made for Walkin'
- 1966


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbyAZQ45uww&index=7

You keep saying you've got something for me
Something you call love, but confess
You've been a-messin' where you shouldn'ta been a-messin'
And now someone else is gettin' all your best

These boots are made for walkin'
And that's just what they'll do
One of these days these boots are gonna walk all over you
Yeah

You keep lying when you oughta be truthin'
And you keep losin' when you oughta not bet
You keep samin' when you oughta be a-changin'
Now what's right is right, but you ain't been right yet

These boots are made for walkin'
And that's just what they'll do
One of these days these boots are gonna walk all over you

You keep playin' where you shouldn't be playin'
And you keep thinkin' that you'll never get burned, ha!
I just found me a brand new box of matches, yeah
And what he knows, you ain't had time to learn

These boots are made for walkin'
And that's just what they'll do
One of these days these boots are gonna walk all over you

Are you ready boots?
Start walkin'!

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Để kết thúc chương trình nhạc trẻ của các người già, xin được đăng 2 bài nhạc không lời một của The Ventures và một của The Shadows.


The Shadows ~ Apache


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2izTbEyxg0A

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

The Ventures - Wipe Out


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjiOtouyBOg

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Sau chương trình nhạc, xin mời Songthuong, bác Tôm, và các ACE theo dõi tiếp bộ phim

Người Tù trại ShawShank.


*****


Người Tù trại ShawShank

Trong phiên tòa ngoài chánh án, các luật sư, 12 vị cử tri đoàn, và một số khoảng gần 50 người ngồi chật cứng trong phòng nhỏ.

- Ông Dufresne, ông hãy miêu tả sự mâu thuẫn với vợ ông trong đêm bà bị sát hại.

Dufresne với đôi mắt buồn thảm, ngước nhìn vị luật sư và trả lời.

- Đó là câu chuyện thật chua xót.

- Cô ấy nói cô ấy mừng vì tôi biết chuyện của cô ấy, cô ấy ghét phải che dấu lén lút.

- Và cố ấy muốn ly dị ở Reno.

Vị luật sư chắp tay sau lưng bỗng ngắt lời:

- Ông trả lời sao?

Dufresne nói:

- Tôi bảo cô ấy rằng tôi không đồng ý.

- Tôi thà gặp cô ấy ở địa ngục chứ không bao giờ ở Reno cả.

Vị luật sư thêm vào.

- Theo hàng xóm của ông thì đó chính là những gì ông nói.

- Họ nói vậy sao? Thưa luật sư. Tôi không thật sự nhớ rõ tôi rất suy sụp.

- Chuyện gì đã xảy ra sau khi ông tranh cãi với vợ ông?

- Cô ấy gói ghém đồ đạc, để đến ở với Quentin.

Vị luật sự gài bẫy câu hỏi:

- Quentin là ngườì chơi golf chuyên nghiệp ở câu lạc bộ Snowden Hills Country, chính là người ông phát hiện đã gian díu với vợ ông? Ông đi theo với vợ ông?

- Lúc đầu tôi có đến một quán rượu. sau đó tôi lái xe đến nhà hắn, đến để đối chất với bọn họ, nhưng họ không có ở đó. Tôi đỗ xe ở ngoài...và đợi.

- Để làm gì?

- Tôi cũng không rõ. Có lẽ do tôi hơi bối rối và say nữa. Tôi nghĩ, tôi chỉ muốn dọa bọn họ.

- Khi họ về anh tới căn nhà và giết họ?

- Không lúc đó tôi cũng dần tỉnh rươu rồi. tôi quay trở lại xe, lái về nhà và lăn ra ngủ. Trên đường về tôi vất súng xuống dòng Royal. Về điềm này tôi nhớ rất rõ.

- Điều mập mờ là khi bà quét dọn đến làm vào buổi sáng hôm sau, đã tìm thấy xác vợ ông và người tình trên giường. Bị bắn nhiêu lần bởi khẩu 38. Theo ông đó có phải là một sự trùng hợp quá ngẫu nhiên không?

- Đúng vậy.

- Ông vẫn cho rằng mình vất khẩu súng xuống sông? Trước khi vụ ám sát xảy ra.

- Có vẻ hơp lý quá nhỉ? vị luật sư mỉa mai.

- Đó là sự thật. Dufresne nghiêm nghị trả lời.

- Cảnh sát đã dò tìm trên con song đó suốt 3 ngày mà không có khẩu súng nào được tìm thấy. Vì thế chúng ta không thể đối chiếu khẩu súng của ông với những viên đạn được tìm thấy trên thân thể của nạn nhân. Và chuyện đó cũng vô cùng hợp lý chăng ông Dufresne? Vị luật sư gằn mạnh.

- Tôi thật sự vô tội. Tôi thấy điều vô cùng không hợp lý là khẩu súng không được tìm thấy.

Dufresne nhớ lại cảnh anh ngồi trên xe mân mê khẩu súng 38, thỉnh thoảng cầm chai rượu đưa lên miệng uống. Mặt căng thẳng Dufresne bước xuống xe đi về phía ...

- Thưa quý ông, quý bà và các vị đã nghe được hết những chứng cứ. Chúng ta đã bắt được bị cáo ở hiện trường, phát hiện được dấu giầy. Chúng ta cũng tìm được vỏ đạn dưới đất và dấu vân tay của bị cáo. Chai rượu bị vỡ có dấu vân tay của anh ta. Và quan trọng nhất là, chúng ta thấy một người phụ nữ xinh đẹp chết trong tay của người tình. Họ đã làm việc sai trái nhưng việc đó có lớn đến nỗi phải nhận bản án tử hình. Hơn nữa hãy chú đến điều này. Một điều này nữa. Một khẩu súng chỉ có thể chứa 6 viên đạn, không phải 8 viên. Tôi cho rằng đây không phải là một cuộc ngộ sát do không kiểm soát được bản thân. Mà chỉ có thể hiểu được rằng. Đó là hành vi của một người có máu lạnh, các vị hãy xem xem. Mỗi nạn nhân bị bắn 4 viên đạn, không phải 6 viên mà là 8. Đó có nghĩa là ông ta đã bắn hết đạn trong súng, rồi ngừng lại và nạp đạn thêm, vì thế hắn có thể bắn mỗi nạn nhân thêm một phát ngay ở trên đầu.

Sau khi vị chánh án nghe trình bầy và xem đầy đủ chứng cớ. Ông phán.

- Ông làm tôi sợ trước sự lạnh lùng và tàn nhẫn của ông đấy, ông Dufresne. Tôi cảm thấy ớn lạnh khi nhìn thấy ông. Với quyền hạn mà chính quyền maine đã trao cho tôi. Tối tuyên án bị cáo phải chịu hai án chung thân, cho mỗi một nạn nhân anh ta giết.

Vị chánh án đập búa xuống bàn và tuyên bố.

- Thi hành.

Dufresne mặt tối sầm lại vì bản án oan, không phải anh là kẻ giết người mà một người nào đó. Hai cái án chung thân nghĩa là cho đến khi chết anh ta sẽ phải sống trong nhà tù suốt đời.

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Trại tù shawshank

Trong căn phòng làm việc đã có 5 vị thẩm phán ngồi đợi một người. Từ cánh cửa căn phòng một nhân viên cảnh sát đưa một người tù da mầu đã lớn tuổi vào căn phòng. Người tù vội dở cái mũ xuống khi thấy 5 năm vị trông đầy quyền uy. Đôi tay ông có vẻ thừa thải, đưa lên đưa xuống. Một vị thẩm phán lên tiếng.

- Ngồi xuống ghế đi.

Được mời ngồi như cởi tấm lòng, ông vội ngồi xuống ngay không khéo lại bị đứng thì hơi phiền.

Một vị thẩm phán lớn tuổi nhất lên tiếng hỏi.

- Chúng tôi thấy anh đã chịu án được 20 năm rồi đúng không?

- Đúng thưa ngài!

- Anh thấy đã tự mình sửa đổi tốt chưa?

- Có thưa ngài chắc chắn rồi. Ý là tôi đã học được nhiều điều. Có thể nói một cách thành thật là tôi đã thay đổi.

Người tù già hết nhìn vị thẩm phán này tới vị thẩm phán khác, rồi nói tiếp.

- Tôi không còn nguy hiểm cho xã hội nữa.

Sau khi nghe qua lời trình bày của người tù, có lẽ 5 vị cảm thấy người tù chưa thật sự hối cải cho lắm. Một cái mộc to tướng đóng một cái cục vào hồ sơ cá nhân với một chữ REJECTED đỏ choét. Người tù già thật sự thất vọng khi nhìn thấy cái chữ REJECTED hắc ám này. Viên cảnh sát dẫn ông già ra khỏi phòng đưa ra đến sân trống nơi các tù nhân đang sinh hoạt ngoài trời. Ông chán nản bước về phía đám bạn tù. Một người lên tiếng hỏi.

- Sao rồi!

- Vẫn tệ như vậy, vẫn vũ như cẩn. Chán quá các ông ơi.

- Tôi biết cái cảm giác thất vọng của anh. Tuần tới thế nào cũng đến phiên tôi bị bác đơn xin ân xá.

- Đúng đấy tuần trước tôi cũng bị bác đơn rồi.

- Lúc nào chẳng thế.

Ba người đi rảo bộ trong sân. Một người từ đâu bỗng sộc đến hỏi người tù già.

- Này Red cho tôi vay một bao thuốc đi.

- Tránh xa ra tôi đi cha nội, cha đã vay của tôi 5 bao thuốc rồi đấy nhé.

- Mới có 4 bao mà ông.

Red vẫn vừa đi vừa nói mình ên.

- Hẳn là sẽ có một thằng tù như tôi trong các nhà tù của nước Mỹ. Một thằng có thể cung cấp cho tù nhân đủ mọi thứ. Từ thuốc lá, cần sa…và rượu để họ mừng con của họ tốt nghiệp trung học và tất cả mọi thứ có thể có. Vâng tôi như một nhà phân phối cho bọn chúng.

Red hồi tưởng lại.

- Andy Dufresne vào đây năm 1949 đến và nhờ tôi đưa ảnh của nữ tài tử Rita Hayworth vào cho anh ta. Tôi nói với anh ta là không có vần đề gì hết.

Có tiếng còi xe từ ngoài trại tù vọng vào , một chiếc xe chở tù nhân mới chạy vào cổng chính của nhà tù. Nhà tù nhìn từ trên cao trông rất rộng lớn.

- Andy đến nhà tù Shawshank vào đầu năm 1947 vì tội giết vợ và người tình của cô ta..Khi còn ở ngoài anh ta là phó tổng giám đốc ngân hàng lớn ở Portland. Đó là công việc tốt đối với người còn trẻ như anh ta.

Đám cựu tù vội đi nhanh đến cổng chính đề nhìn và đón đám tù con so. Cổng chính vừa mở, các tù con so đã thấy đám cảnh sát mặt đằng đằng sát khi đứng chờ sẵn. Trên các chòi canh và các bờ tường cao, đám cảnh sát khác lăm lăm khẩu súng tiểu liên, lên đạn rắc rắc để đề phòng bạo động.

Đám đông cựu tù vỗ tay và hoan hô chào đón tù mới rầm trời.

[passenger]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KS4WTXSDOyM

Happy Holidays:z57:

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KS4WTXSDOyM

Happy Holidays:z57:


chào passenger đã cho nghe bản nhạc mùa giáng sinh đầy ấn tượng theo phong cách country music.

Happy Holidays to you and your family too.

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Chiếc xe chở tù bít bùng đậu lại, cửa vừa mở ra, đã có đám cảnh sát cầm súng dàn chào sẵn.

Người tù thứ nhất bước xuống xe chưa kịp chào hỏi đã bị thầy đội trưởng mặt hắc ám túm cổ áo gằn giọng hỏi:

- Mày nói được tiếng anh không?

Tên tù không nói đến nửa lời chỉ gật đầu.

Đám tù lần lượt từng người bước xuống, họ không thể đi nhanh được vì bị xiềng chung với nhau bằng sợi giây xích dài. Đám tù cũng cỡ chục người. Thầy đội vẫy ta ra lệnh cho đám tù đi vào. Tiếng vỗ tay và la hét vẫn rất ồn ào như một ngày hội.

Andy mặt mày ngơ ngác, có vẻ sợ hãi vì đám cựu tù la hét.

- Đạt cược được không Red.

- Bằng thuốc hay tiền tùy cậu.

- Thuốc đi tôi cược hai điếu.

- Được rồi cậu chọn thằng nào?

- Thằng bé con bẩn thỉu kia.

- Thằng thứ tám kể từ trên xuống.

- Tao theo. Mày thế nào cũng thua thôi Red.

- Thế theo mày thì mày chọn thằng nào?

- Tao lấy thằng béo kia.

- Thằng thứ năm ấy, tao cược 5 điếu.

Đám tù mới đi vào nhìn đám tù cũ với sự sợ sệt, họ lầm lũi bước đi.

- Chà chào lính mới hôm nay.

- Chúng ta chào mừng bọn tù mới nào.

Red hồi tưởng lại.

- Tôi phải thừa nhận rằng lần đầu găp Andy tôi không ấn tượng lắm. Anh ta ốm yếu trông cứ như có thể bị cơn gió nhẹ thồi bay. Đó là ấn tượng đầu tiên của tôi về anh ta.

Có một người tù lên tiếng:

- Anh chọn thằng nào hả Red?

- Cái gã trông có vẻ cao kều kia à?

- Á! Cái gì ông chọn tên ốm yếu này? Thằng đó á không đời nào.

- 10 điếu. Red nói.

- Vụ đặt cược này lớn đó.

- Ai dám bảo tao sẽ sai nào? Heywood? Jigger? Skeeter? Floyd?

- Bốn thằng can đảm đấy.

Có tiếng còi và tiếng loa phóng thanh.

- Hãy trở về trại giam. Tất cả hãy trở về trại giam.

Đám tù được dẫn vào căn phòng khá lớn, thầy đội bắt đứng dàn hàng ngang. Trông giống như bọn lính mới trong quân đội vậy. Một người khá lớn tuổi chững chạc trong bộ đồ vét mới bước vào. Thì ra đây là màn ra mắt xếp cai ngục lớn nhất trong tù. Ông ta chỉ vào thầy đội giới thiệu.

- Đây là ông Hadley, sĩ quan cai ngục.

- Còn tôi là Norton, phụ trách nhà tù này.

- Các anh đều là những phạm nhân. Vì thế họ gởi các anh cho tôi.

- Điều luật thứ nhất: Không báng bổ. Tôi không cho phép các anh lôi Chúa ra để báng bổ trong nhà tù của tôi.

- Những điều luật khác … các anh sẽ dần tìm hiểu ra sau một thời gian ở đây. Còn câu hỏi nào không?

Có người lên tiếng hỏi:

- Bao giờ thì chúng tôi được ăn?

Thầy đội nghe tiếng hỏi ngước mắt lên nhìn giận dữ và đến trước mặt người tù vừa lỡ dại hỏi.

- Mày ăn khi nào bọn tao bảo ăn.

- Mày ỉa khi nào bọn tao bảo ỉa.

- Và mày đái khi nào bọn tao bảo đái.

- Mày hiểu chưa hả thằng khốn ngu ngốc?

Thầy đội cầm cái dùi cui đập thật mạnh vào bụng người tù khốn khổ, kèm theo tiếng chửi. Người tù đau đớn ôm bụng khịu xuống.

- Đ.M. mầy.

Xếp cai ngục tiếp tục giảng kinh thánh coi như không có chuyện gì xảy ra. Ông ta cầm cuốn kinh thánh trên tay dơ lên cho đám tù mới coi.

- Tầt cả đứng yên. Tôi tin vào hai thứ. Đó là luật lệ và thánh kinh. Ở đây các anh đều có hai thứ đó.

- Hãy tin vào chúa. Các người nằm trong sự cai quản của ta.

- Chào mừng đến Shawshank.

Cuộc chào mừng đầy ấn tượng và rất nhà tù. Con mẹ nó.

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

chào song thuong, huong khuya, và lính đại ca đã ghé đọc phim chuyện.

***

Thầy đội trưởng ra lệnh tan hàng.

Thủ tục đầu tiên khi vừa vào nhà tù. Là các tù nhân mới, bị bắt cởi trần truồng, và có màn dùng súng phun nước lạoi cực mạnh xịt nước có pha thuốc sát trùng để tẩy rửa bớt các vi trùng từ bên ngoài đời mang vào nhà tù. Andy cũng không ngoại lệ, Mỗi lần những tia nước cực mạnh xối vào người Andy thấy ran rát, cuối cùng thì màn tắm sát trùng cũng xong.

- Quay người lại.

Mỗi lần quay người, nhân viên lại thẩy bột trắng tẩy trùng lên người, họ quang cả lố bột dính lên mặt và mắt. Andy bực lắm mà không làm đếch gì được.

- Đến xa lim lấy kinh thánh của mày đi.

- Thằng kế tiếp vào tắm.

Sau khi tắm xong bọn tù mới đi về xà lim với thân thể trần như nhông, hai tay ôm mớ quần áo.

Không nghi ngờ gì! Đêm đầu tiên là đêm khó khăn nhất. Họ lột sạch quần áo như ngày mới sinh ra vậy. Da thì bỏng rát và mắt nửa mù vì thuốc sát trùng. Và sau đó họ tống anh vào nhà giam. Vào nơi phòng giam của riêng mình thì mới thấy thực tế phũ phàng thế nào. Chỉ trong nháy mắt cuộc đời cũ đã chấm dứt. Không gì còn lại ngoài thời gian cả đời để nghĩ về những điều đã trải qua.

Những anh chàng mới đến đây đều gần như phát điên ngay trong đêm đầu tiên. Luôn có một thằng gục ngã và òa khóc. Lúc nào cũng thế. Vấn đề chỉ là ai sẽ là thằng đầu tiên gục ngã? Đó là điều tốt để đưa ra cá cược. Tôi đặt cược cho Andy Dufresne.

Andy được đưa vào xà lim nhỏ, gã bần thần nhìn căn phòng cá nhân lạ lẫm, căn phòng quá nhỏ chỉ vừa đủ kê cái giường và một cái toa lét, thêm cái bồn rửa mặt. Như vậy đã là tiện nghi chán rồi. À còn thêm cái kệ nhỏ để đựng vật dụng cá nhân.

- Tới giờ đi ngủ rồi! tắt đèn!

Red nằm trên giường hồi tường lại.

- Tôi nhớ cái đêm đầu tiên, cũng đã lâu lắm rồi.

- Này thằng mới đến. Mày đó! Mày sợ bóng tối à! Tao nghĩ rằng mày đang mơ, giả tỉ cha mày đừng tò tí te với mẹ mày thì chắc mày không có ở trong tù này chứ gì. Đúng là đồ con heo bẩn thỉu.

- Những tù nhân cũ luôn kiếm chuyện với những người mới đến. Và bọn chúng không ngừng khi ai đó phải chịu thua.

Sau khi đèn tắt đám tù mới cảm thấy sợ hãi cái cảm giác cô độc vì cuộc sống mới trong tù, người thì im lặng nằm suy nghĩ, kẻ yếu bóng vía thì nằm khóc thút thít. Trong đám tù mới có anh chàng mập trắng cũng đang rơi vào trường hợp dễ sở này. Gã thút thít khóc khiến tên tù cũ bực mình lên tiếng gây sự.

- Này thằng mông to kia. Tao biết mày đang ở đó tao nghe thấy mày đang thở. Đừng nghe những thằng ngu đó nói, mày vẫn đang nghe đấy chứ. Chỗ này cũng không tệ lắm đâu. Tao nói cho mà nghe. Tao sẽ giới thiệu mày cho mọi người, mày sẽ thấy như ở nhà vậy. Lo làm đếch chi hả mày?
Gã tù mập càng nghe gã tù cũ trấn an càng cảm thấy lo sợ, gã lại thút thít khóc .

- Tao biết ở đây có những thằng to lớn và đồng tính rất thích làm quen. Đặc biệt là những thằng béo trắng và ủy mị như mày.

Nghe tới đây gã tù mập trắng kêu thét lên.

- Lạy chúa tôi! Tôi không thuộc về nơi này.

Thằng tù cũ thấy dọa được cho gã tù mới sợ hãi, hắn cười khoái trá. Có lẽ đây là thú tiêu khiển khi chọc cho người tù khác xanh mặt mày. Lão cười đểu giả và nói lớn dọa thêm.

- Chúng ta có người thắng cuộc rồi! Đó chính là thằng mập địt này.

Gã tù mới càng gào to hơn,:

- Tôi muốn về nhà.

Cả xà lim tù ồn ào, bọn tù vỗ tay từng nhịp. Gã mập sợ hãi.

- Tôi muốn về nhà! Tôi muốn gặp mẹ tôi.

Tiếng vỗ tay càng lúc càng nhanh và ồn ào, khiến nhân viên cai tù phải vào trận.

- Chúng mày làm cái quái gì vậy?

- Thằng này báng bổ chúa tôi đang định nói với ông Warden. Thằng tù cũ trơ tráo vu cáo.

- Có chuyện gì với mày thế hở thằng béo ngu ngốc?

- Làm ơn tôi không muốn ở đây. Không phải tôi.

- Tao sẽ không đếm đến 3 thậm chí không đếm nữa. Nếu mày không im miệng tao sẽ cho mày phải nín đấy.

- Ông không hiểu tôi đáng lẽ không phải ở đây.

Gã đội trưởng hết kiên nhẫn, gã ra lệnh.

- Mở buồng này ra.

Gã tù mập bị lôi ra khỏi phòng giam cá nhân, gả đội trưởng đấm đá liên tiếp và quấn dùi cui vào thân thể gã mập. Gã mập đáng thương chỉ còn biết nằm im chịu đòn.

- Ôi! ông quản ngục bình tĩnh nào.

Sau trận đòn dùi cui như mưa, gã mập nằm gục xuống sàn ngất xỉu.

- Nếu tao còn nghe thấy tiếng động nào đó vào đêm nay. Thề có chúa tao sẽ cho chúng mày vào bệnh xá nằm hết. Nghe chưa hả lũ khốn kiếp.

- Gọi bác sĩ, đưa đồ chó chết này xuống bệnh xá.

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

chao song thuong,

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Đêm đầu tiên trong ngục Andy đã làm tôi mất 2 bao thuốc. Cậu ta đã không hề nói một câu nào.

Tiếng còi hú buổi sáng. Vừa nghe tiếng còi hú, các tù nhân đã sẵn sàng bước ra khỏi phòng giam và đứng trước cửa phòng để nhân viên coi tù kiểm tra từng người một coi có vượt ngục hay có ai tự tử hoặc trốn tù.

- Báo cáo tầng 3 phía bắc đủ người.

- Tầng 2 phía bắc đủ.

- Tần 3 phía nam đủ.

- Chuẩn bị đi ra ngoài nào. Đi nào.

Các tù nhân từ 3 tầng lầu phía bắc và nam lần lượt đi xuống cầu thang và vào phòng ăn để ăn sáng. Từng người trật tự xếp hàng để đợi đến phiên mình lấy đồ ăn, Andy cũng lấy một khay đồ ăn. Vừa đi qua toán tù cũ, có một gã mặt mày bặm trợn, có lẽ là đai ca trong nhóm, nhìn theo Andy như muốn cái gì đó. Any lẳng lặng ngồi vào cái bàn trống ít người, gã không muốn nói chuyện với ai. Im lặng ăn. Đang ăn, Andy nhìn thấy có một cái gì nhúc nhích trong đĩa khoai tây nhừ, gã lấy hai ngón tay bốc lên coi. Thì ối mẹ ơi, một con sâu trắng đang ngúc ngắc cái đầu, trông khiếp bỏ mẹ.

Một người tù già trông thấy lên tiếng hỏi.

- Cậu có ăn nó không?

- Tôi nghĩ là không.

- Thế cậu không phiền chứ. Cho tôi đi.

Andy đưa con sâu cho ông già, ông già cầm lấy nhìn và khen nó ngon lành. Tưởng ông ấy bỏ vào miệng ăn, nào ngờ ông mở cái áo bên trong túi có con chim nhỏ đang chu cái mỏ nhọn chờ đồ ăn. Ông già chưa kịp đưa tới miệng nó đã táp cái chụt tọt cha nó vào trong họng.

- Jake cám ơn cậu đã cho đồ ăn. Tôi tìm thấy nó khi nó rơi ra khỏi tổ. Tôi sẽ chăm sóc nó cho đến khi nó đủ lớn để bay.

- Ôi! không! coi hắn đến rồi kìa.

- Chào buổi sáng. Một buồi sáng đẹp trời đúng không? Đưa thuốc đây, tao muốn chúng dàn hàng như những bản hợp xướng bé nhỏ và tuyệt vời. Nhìn này tao không thể chịu nổi thằng này. Ôi! Lạy chúa. Thuốc từ Richmond Virginia à! Ngon thiệt tình.

Gã đăt cược đến bên bàn bọn Red để thu thuốc lá vì thua cá cược, về vụ người tù mới nào sẽ bị khủng hoảng trước tiên sau một ngày nằm trong tù. Tôi phải cám ơn thằng béo tôi chọn. Còn ông Red đã thua cược vì thằng khốn cao lềnh khềnh kia hà? Ý gã ám chỉ Andy.

- Này , Tyrell. Tuần này mày làm ở bệnh xá phải không? Thế thằng béo của tao thế nào rồi?

- Chết rồi.

Vừa nghe chữ chết rồi, Andy tỉnh hẳn người ngước nhìn và nghe ngóng họ nói chuyện gì xảy ra cho thằng mập.

- Hadley đập vào đầu hắn một quả khá nặng. Lúc đó bác sĩ về rồi. Thằng khốn đáng thương nằm đó tới sáng. Đến lúc đó thì quá muộn rồi, chẳng thể làm gì được.

Andy nghe xong lên tiếng hỏi:

- Tên anh ta là gì?

- Mày nói gì? Tên đại ca nhìn Andy và hỏi giật ngược.

- Tôi chỉ tự hỏi xem có ai biế tên anh ta không. Andy buồn rầu trả lời.

- Đ.M. Mày quan tâm làm cái quái gì hả thằng lính mới kia. Tên của hắn là cái quái gì đi nữa thì hắn cũng chết rồi. Gã sừng cổ gây sự.

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

chào bá Tôm và song thuong xin mời đọc tiếp.

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Ăn sáng xong nghỉ ngơi chút đỉnh, thì lại tới giờ đi tắm. Cả hàng hơn chục con người, trần như nhộng đứng tắm trong phòng tắm tập thể, tù nhân không biết phải xếp hạng là công nhân hạng mấy, đã vào tù là phải sinh hoạt tập thể, ăn chung, tắm chung, sinh hoạt chung, may còn có đi ỉa là còn cá nhân một chút, mỗi phòng đều có bồn cầu riêng, nếu cái thú riêng tư này còn chung nữa thì bỏ mẹ, còn chi để mà hưởng thụ. Ôi kiếp tù nhân là vậy sao?

Đang tắm thằng đại ca từ đâu sấn tới chỗ bọn Andy đang tắm, mấy người đi chung với Andy sợ sệt né ra một bên.

- Đã thằng nào đến nói chuyện với mày chưa?

- Có ai chưa hả? Tất cả những thằng ở đây đều cần bạn. Tao có thể làm bạn mày.

Andy nghe thằng này tán tỉnh, mặt xám ngoét bỏ đi một nước. Thằng đại ca tức tối.

- Có vẻ khó nói chuyện quá nhỉ? Tao thích thế, càng khó tán tao càng thích.

Andy lúc đầu có vẻ khép mình không muốn nói chuyện với ai. Tôi nghĩ anh ta đã toan tính rất nhiều, anh ta cũng cố thích nghi với cuộc sống trong tù, nào là tham gia giặt quần áo tù, chơi banh bóng chày. Cũng phải đến một tháng anh ta mới mở miệng, nói một hai từ với đó. Cuối cùng ai đó lại chính là tôi, Red. Andy lân la đến gần Red làm quen, khi đó đang chơi thẩy banh bóng chầy.

- Tôi là Andy Dufresne.

- Ông chủ giết vợ à? Sao cậu phạm tội thế?

- Nếu ông hỏi thì tôi nói tôi không làm điều đó.

- Cậu có vẻ thích nghi rồi đấy. Tất cả mọi người ở đây đều vô tội cậu biết điều đó chứ.

- Này sao cậu lại vào đây?

- Tôi có làm gì đâu, chỉ là thằng luật sư nó chơi tôi.

- Theo lời đồn thì cậu là một người lạnh lùng. Thế cậu nghĩ cậu hơn tất cả bọn tôi à?

- Thế ông nghĩ sao?

- Nói thật nhé ta cũng chưa biết nữa.

- Tôi biết ông là người có thể lấy được mọi thứ.

- Ta có thể thu xếp được vài việc.

- Vậy ông có thể lấy cho tôi một cái búa đá không?

Nghe tới đây Red ngạc nhiên, quay nhìn thẳng vào mắt Andy buột miệng hỏi:

- Cái chi?

- Tôi muốn có một cái búa đá có được không?

- Đó là gì và tại sao?

- Ông không cần quan tâm đến điều đó ông Red.

- Nếu là một cái bàn chải đánh răng thì ta sẽ không thắc mắc. Ta chỉ ra giá thôi. Vì bàn chải đánh răng thì không thể gây chết người được, còn cái búa thì khỏi nói rồi.

- Thẳng thắn đấy. Một cái cục đá khoảng 6 đến 7 inches. Giống cái cuốc chim nhỏ.

- Cuốc chim ư?

- Để đục đá.

- Cục đá thạnh anh.

Andy thẩy cho Red cục đá thạch anh.

- Cần một ít mica, đất sét, đá vôi.

- Để làm gì?

- Tôi là nhà sưu tập đá. Trước đây là như vậy. Và tôi muốn tiếp tục công việc này.

- Tôi nghi ngờ anh muốn đâm cái đồ chơi đó vào đầu ai chứ.

- Không tôi không có kẻ thù ở đây.

- Không à cứ chờ mà xem. Chúng nó nói. Những thằng đại ca có vẻ rất thích cậu đấy. Đặc biệt là thằng Bogs.

- Sẽ không có chuyện gì đâu nếu tôi nói tôi không phải là người đồng tính.

- Chẳng thằng nào đồng tính cả. Chỉ cần biết cậu là người thôi, chúng không quan tâm nhiều đâu. Bọn chó đấy chỉ dung sức ạmnh thôi. Đó là tất cả chúng biết và hiểu. Nếu tôi là cậu tôi sẽ để mắt đến bọn chúng.

- Cám ơn ông vì lời khuyên.

- Không có gì, nó miễn phí mà. Cậu cũng hiểu điều mà tôi băn khoăn mà.

- Nếu có chuyện gì, tôi sẽ không sử dụng cái búa đó.

- Tôi đoán cậu muốn vượt ngục bằng những ống ngầm dưới bức tường, phải không?

Andy không nói và không trả lời chỉ cười thôi.

- Tôi nhầm lẫn gì sao? Có gì đáng buồn cười thế?

- Ông sẽ hiểu khi ông nhìn thấy cái búa đó.

- Thế cái đồ vật đó giá bao nhiêu?

- Giá 7 đô và được bán trong cửa hàng đá.

- Thường ta lấy giá 20% của đồ vật chuyển vào. Nhưng đây là món đồ đăc biệt, rủi ro nhiều hơn nên giá cũng tăng, 10 đô được chứ.

- 10 đô, đồng ý.

- Thật là phí tiền. Tại sao lại thế. Thường có những đợt kiểm tra đột xuất. Nếu họ tìm ra nó, cậu sẽ mất nó. Nếu họ bắt được cậu đừng nên nói tên tôi ra. Nếu cậu nói chúng ta sẽ không bao giờ làm ăn với nhau nữa. Se không có tuồn giầy dép hay kẹo cao su nữa. Cậu rõ chứ?

- Tôi hiểu rồi. Cám ơn ông.

- Red, tên tôi là Red.

- Tại sao họ lại gọi ông bằng tên đó?

- Bởi vì tôi có lẽ là người Ailen.

- Giờ tôi hiểu tại sao một số người không muốn tiếp xúc với Andy. Anh ta chẳng bao giờ kể về bản thân cả. Một cuộc đi dạo và nói chuyện như vậy không bình thường ở đây chút nào cả. anh ta đi dạo như một người đàn ông dạo trong công viên không quan tâm lo lắng đền sự đời. Như là một tấm áo tàng hình có thể che phủ, bảo vệ anh ta ở chốn này.. Nói một cách thẳng thắn. tôi thích Andy ngay lần gặp đầu tiên.

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

xin lỗi đã tạm ngung chuong trinh coi phim vì phải take care bà xã mổ vai.

thôi thì đọc tạm tin Bitcoins

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Bitcoins Explained . Giải mã Bitcoins (tiền ảo).


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BITCOINS EXPLAINED

A large number of monkeys lived near a village.

One day a merchant came to the village and said he wanted to buy these monkeys...
He announced that he would buy the monkeys @ $100 each.
The villagers thought that the man was mad.
They thought how would somebody buy stray monkeys for $100 each?
Still, some people caught a few monkeys and the merchant gave $100 for each one.
The news spread like wildfire and more people went out to catch monkeys and sell them to the merchant.
After a few days the merchant announced he would now buy monkeys @$200 each...
Even the laziest villagers ran around to catch the remaining monkeys!
They sold them to the merchant @$200 each.
Then the merchant announced that he would buy monkeys @$500 each!
The villagers began to lose sleep! They frantically caught the six or seven remaining monkeys and got $500 each.
The villagers waited anxiously for the next announcement.
The merchant announced he was going home for a week, but when he returned he would buy monkeys @$1000 each!
Before he left he asked his employee to take care of the monkeys he had bought. The employee put all the monkeys into a big cage.
The merchant went home.
The villagers were very sad. There were no more monkeys for them to sell to the merchant when he returned at @ the promised $1000 each.☹️
After three days the employee told the villagers he was tired of taking care of the monkeys and would secretly sell some of them @$700 each.
The news spread like wildfire. Since the merchant promised to buy monkeys @$1000 each there would be a $300 profit for each monkey.
The next day the villagers formed a queue near the monkey cage.
The employee sold the monkeys at $700 each. Rich villagers bought monkeys in big lots. Poorer villagers borrowed money from money lenders so they could buy monkeys! Eventually the employee sold every one.
The villagers took good care of their monkeys and waited for the merchant to return.
Days past but the merchant did not return!
In desperation they ran to find the merchant’s employee.
But he too had left!
Sadly the villagers realized they had bought useless stray monkeys @$700 each and now there was no one to buy them!

Bitcoin will be the next monkey business.

This monkey business will bankrupt a lot of people and leave a few filthy rich.

That's how it will work.

Google Translate :
Giải mã tiền ảo.

Có một số khỉ sống gần một ngôi làng.

Một hôm, một Thương gia đến làng, và nói rằng: Ông muốn mua những con khỉ này.
Ông tuyên bố: Ông sẽ mua những con khỉ $ 100 mỗi con.
Dân làng nghĩ rằng: Người đàn ông đã điên.
Họ nghĩ ai sẽ mua những con khỉ hoang giá 100 đô la mỗi con ?
Tuy nhiên, một số người đã bắt được vài con khỉ, mà Thương gia đã trả 100 đô la cho mỗi con.
Tin tức lan rộng như lửa rừng, và nhiều người đi bắt khỉ, rồi bán chúng cho Thương gia.
Sau vài ngày, Thương gia tuyên bố ông sẽ mua khỉ $ 200 mỗi con.
Ngay cả những người dân lười nhất chạy quanh để bắt những con khỉ còn lại !
Họ bán chúng cho thương gia $ 200 mỗi con .
Sau đó, Thương gia thông báo rằng: Ông sẽ mua khỉ $ 500 mỗi con !
Dân làng bắt đầu mất ngủ! Họ điên cuồng bắt được sáu hoặc bảy con khỉ còn lại, và mỗi người có 500 đô la/con.
Dân làng lo lắng chờ đợi thông báo tiếp theo.
Thương gia đã thông báo anh sẽ về nhà trong một tuần, nhưng khi anh trở lại , anh sẽ mua con khỉ $ 1000 mỗi con !
Trước khi ông rời đi, ông yêu cầu nhân viên chăm sóc khỉ mà ông đã mua. Nhân viên đưa tất cả khỉ vào một cái lồng lớn.
Thương gia đã đi về nhà.
Dân làng rất buồn. Không có thêm khỉ để bán cho Thương gia, khi anh ta trở lại mua tại đây mỗi $ 1000 như hứa hẹn.
Sau ba ngày, nhân viên nói với dân làng: Anh ta đã mệt mỏi trong việc chăm sóc khỉ, và sẽ bí mật bán một số trong số đó khoảng 700 USD/con.
Tin tức lan truyền như cháy rừng. Kể từ khi Thương gia hứa mua khỉ $ 1000 mỗi con, sẽ có lợi nhuận $ 300 cho mỗi con khỉ.
Ngày hôm sau, người dân thành lập một hàng đợi gần chuồng khỉ.
Nhân viên bán những con khỉ ở mức 700 đô la mỗi con. Dân làng giàu mua khỉ rất nhiều. Những người dân nghèo đi vay tiền từ các nhà cho vay tiền, để họ có thể mua khỉ ! Cuối cùng thì nhân viên bán hết.
Dân làng chăm sóc tốt cho khỉ của họ, và đợi cho người Thương gia trở lại.
Những ngày trôi qua, nhưng Thương gia đã không trở lại!
Trong cơn tuyệt vọng, họ chạy đến tìm nhân viên của Thương gia.
Nhưng anh cũng đã bỏ đi mất rồi!
Đáng buồn là dân làng nhận ra rằng: Họ đã mua những con khỉ đi lạc vô dụng $ 700 mỗi con, mà bây giờ không có ai mua chúng nữa !
Bitcoin sẽ là doanh nghiệp khỉ tiếp theo.
Kinh doanh khỉ này sẽ phá sản rất nhiều người, và để lại một vài người giàu có bẩn thỉu.
Đó là cách họ sẽ làm như vậy.

[hoài vọng]

Mong chuyện xui xẻo của bà xã êm trôi qua năm mới cả gia đình hạnh phúc :)

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Mong chuyện xui xẻo của bà xã êm trôi qua năm mới cả gia đình hạnh phúc :)


thanks

Lính đại ca

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Chúc mừng năm mới xuân Mậu Tuất đến với mọi người.

An Khang thịnh vượng, tài lộc dồi dào.

tien vô như nước mà ra nhỏ giọt như ly cà phê phin.

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Có một bầy em bé ngoài đê
Hát câu i tờ đón xuân về...

Tôi dám cá là ngay cả vào Thời Trung Cổ, cũng không nơi nào có một mùa xuân an bình và tươi đẹp đến như vậy. Mà Phạm Duy đâu phải là người thuộc Thời Trung Cổ. Vậy chớ thằng chả kiếm ở đâu ra một mùa xuân (vào thời đại chúng ta) mà thái hòa và an lạc dữ vậy cà?

Thiệt nó đẹp như mơ vậy đó nha. Và sao tui nghi là ổng đã nằm mơ (thiệt) quá hà. Chớ giữa chúng ta, nhất là những kẻ sinh trưởng ở miền Nam Việt Nam, có mấy ai đã từng nhìn thấy cái đê. Bờ đê trần trụi vắng hoe cũng khỏi có luôn, nói chi đến “một bầy em bé... hát câu i tờ đón xuân về” – vào một buổi chiều xuân nào đó, đã xa lắc xa lơ – trên bờ đê lộng gió!

Còn chuyện “có một chàng thi sĩ miền quê, ngắt bông hoa trao người xuân thì” (... ôi thôi) nhắc đến làm chi cho nó thêm buồn. Tìm đâu ra (nữa) một thằng cha làm thơ dễ thương và hiền lành đến thế?

Tui nói vậy bạn dám cãi lắm nha. Bạn dám sẽ đưa Nguyễn Bính ra làm bia đỡ đạn, với lý do “ổng là thi sĩ miền quê cuối cùng” của thời đại chúng ta. Tệ hơn nữa, bạn còn dám mang những bài thơ lục bát (đã được “phóng ảnh treo tường” để bán) của Nguyễn Duy ra để hù tui nữa – không chừng?

Xin lỗi bạn chớ, cỡ Tú Xương đây mà cũng đã có lúc phải ứa lệ – rấm rứt khóc thầm (dám bằng tiếng Pháp) vì nạn đô thị hóa, đây nè:

Sông kia giờ đã nên đồng
Chỗ làm nhà cửa, chỗ giồng ngô khoai
Đêm nghe tiếng ếch bên tai
Giật mình còn tưởng ai gọi đò...

Xá gì Nguyễn Bính, nói chi tới cỡ Nguyễn Duy. Tóm lại, tui tin rằng Nguyễn Khuyến mới đích thực là thi sĩ miền quê cuối cùng của dân tộc Việt Nam:

Tháng Giêng hai mươi mốt chợ Đồng
Năm nay chợ họp có đông không
Dở giời mưa bụi còn hơi rét
Nếm rượu tường đền được mấy ông

Chớ còn mấy trự làm thơ (lóc nhóc) sau này đều đã bị đô thị hóa, đã “phong sương mấy độ qua đường phố” hết trơn rồi – theo như cách nói của Sơn Nam. Và tôi ngại nhất là cái kiểu bụi đời (ướt át) của ông Thế Lữ:

Rũ áo phong sương trên gác trọ
Ngắm nhìn thiên hạ đón xuân sang

Cái gác trọ này – tôi bảo đảm – nằm ở Hà Thành, vào cuối thập niên ba mươi hay đầu bốn mươi gì đó. Thêm cái kiểu cách “rũ áo phong sương” đủ khiến chúng ta hình dung ra được cả đám Vũ Hoàng Chương, Đinh Hùng, Xuân Diệu, Huy Cận... đã sống cải lương chết mẹ đi rồi. Đâu còn “thi sĩ miền quê” nào nữa, mấy cha?

Đô thị hóa, tất nhiên, không phải chỉ xảy ra ở Hà Nội Ba Mươi Sáu Phố Phường. Không tin, cứ đọc Nguyễn Bính mà xem:

Đôi ta lưu lạc phương Nam này
Đã mấy mùa xuân én nhạn bay
Xuân đến khắp trời hoa mận nở
Riêng ta với người buồn lắm thay

Bạn thấy chưa: lại thêm hai ông nhô con bỏ nhà “dzô” Nam, thuê gác trọ, sống giữa Sài Thành Hoa Lệ. Mà đi giang hồ chút đỉnh vậy là phải chớ. Chính quê hương của Nguyễn Bính cũng đã nhiễm bụi thị thành từ lâu rồi, còn nấn ná ở đó làm chi cho mụ người ra:

Hoa chanh mọc ở vườn chanh
Thầy u mình với chúng mình dân quê
Hôm qua em đi tỉnh về
Hoa đồng cỏ nội bay đi ít nhiều...

Coi: nàng mới ra tỉnh về (có chút xíu hà) mà hoa đồng cỏ nội đã bay đi mất liền một mớ. Lỡ mà “ẻm” ghé chơi Hà Nội hay Hải Phòng (chậm lắm) ba đêm kể như rồi, còn gì là “người xuân thì” theo tiêu chuẩn “chân quê” nữa, đúng không/

Bạn hết cãi chưa/ Dù bạn đã tắt đài, tôi biết bạn vẫn còn ấm ức vì cái giọng điệu hoài cổ cực đoan và (hơi) quá khích của tui từ khi đặt bút xuống cho tới bây giờ – phải không nào?

Đừng có nghĩ bậy bạ như vậy, mang tội chết à nha, cha nội. Coi: cuộc tình dấm dớ của một anh thi sĩ miền quê với một cô gái xuân thì – hay hình ảnh một bờ đê lộng gió, với bầy em bé tung tăng, hát câu i tờ, vào buổi chiều xuân có nắng vàng hanh nào đó – hoàn toàn và tuyệt đối có liên quan, dính dáng gì tới tui đâu. Cớ sao tôi lại hoài cổ chớ/ Đây là chuyện riêng của... Bà Huyện Thanh Quan hay (cùng lắm) là của ông nội hoặc của ông già tôi thôi hà.

Mà hoài cổ, theo tôi, là thứ tình cảm hơi khó hiểu. Làm sao chúng ta có thể yêu mến hay ngưỡng mộ một thời đại mà mình tuyệt đối không có dính dáng gì tới nó/ Hoài vọng hay hoài cảm, có lẽ, dễ hiểu và phổ biến hơn. Mọi người, khi bắt đầu luống tuổi, hẳn đều thấy tiếc nuối ít nhiều khoảng ấu thơ hay niên thiếu của mình – dù chúng ta sinh ra và trưởng thành ở bất cứ đâu.

Dù vậy, tôi vẫn lậy Trời cho bạn đừng xui tới cỡ là sinh ra ở miền Bắc – vào khoảng thập niên 1940, 50 hay 60 – và cứ phải sống mãi ở nơi đó cho đến bây giờ. Tuổi thơ và tuổi trẻ của bạn – tất nhiên – cũng đẹp, cũng thơ mộng vậy; tuy nhiên, tôi tin là nó sẽ đẹp hơn, mộng mơ hơn (chút đỉnh) nếu Bác và Đảng đừng xía vô cuộc đời bạn quá nhiều – như họ vẫn cứ thích làm như thế, từ hơn nửa thế kỷ qua.

Còn nếu bạn sinh trưởng ở miền Nam thì đỡ mệt biết chừng nào mà nói. Sẽ không ai bắt bạn phải đeo khăn quàng đỏ và đi nhặt rác để hoàn thành kế hoạch nhỏ. Bạn cũng được miễn cái vụ “thay trời làm mưa” hay “nghiêng đồng cho nước chảy ra ngoài” và bạn được tự do đi biểu tình “đả đảo” hoặc chửi rủa bất cứ thằng cha hay con mẹ (cà chớn) nào mình không thích.

Trong một hoàn cảnh sống tương đối dễ thở như thế (và nếu bạn lại sống trong một thành phố ở cao nguyên) thì nhìn thấy “xuân về trên bãi cỏ non” (kể như) là chuyện nhỏ thôi. Điều đáng tiếc là những ngày tháng an lành, phẳng lặng đó không kéo dài lâu.

Đến khoảng cuối thập niên năm mươi, theo trí nhớ non nớt của tôi, trong không khí an bình của miền Nam thoang thoảng đã có mùi vị chiến tranh – qua những bản nhạc tâm lý chiến (thường được hát ở phòng trà và nghe ra hơi nhiều kịch tính) của những ông nhạc sĩ quân đội, như bản “Phiên Gác Đêm Xuân” của Nguyễn Văn Đông chả hạn:

Đón giao thừa một phiên gác đêm
Chờ xuân đến súng xa vang rền
Xác hoa tàn rơi trên báng súng
Ngỡ rằng pháo tung bay
Nào ngờ đâu hoa lá rơi...

Trời đất, đơn vị bạn đụng địch, “súng xa vang rền” mà Nguyễn văn Đông vẫn đang mơ ngủ. Không hề nghe ổng ban lệnh ứng chiến hay kế hoạch cứu viện gì hết trơn hết trọi; đã vậy, sau khi tỉnh giấc, ổng bắt đầu... mơ mộng:

Ngồi ngắm mấy nóc chòi canh
Mơ rằng đây mái nhà tranh
Và ước chiếc bánh ngày xuân
Cùng hương khói vương niềm thương...

Thiệt tình, ổng làm đảo ngược binh pháp hết trơn. Người ta thì cư an tư nguy còn ổng thì cư nguy tư an. Những sĩ quan cao cấp trong quân đôi miền Nam, như đại tá Nguyễn văn Đông, chắc có hơi nhiều; bởi vậy – chỉ chừng mười năm sau – năm 1968 thì súng AK của Trung Cộng và Tiệp Khắc nổ thiệt, và nổ khắp bốn mươi tỉnh lị và thành phố của miền Nam (kể luôn thủ đô Sài Gòn).

Cũng từ đây, chiến tranh lan vô thành phố. Nay, “plastic” đặt nổ “lầm” chỗ này; mai, hỏa tiễn 122 ly rơi “lộn” vô chỗ khác. Và dù vậy, xã hội miền Nam vẫn cứ vui như tết – khi Tết đến.

Nếu so với miền Bắc – nơi mà vì “hoàn cảnh đất nước khó khăn” nên chỉ có quí vị ủy viên trung ương đảng CSVN uống rượu mừng xuân, thay cho cả nước – người dân miền Nam hoàn toàn bình đẳng trong chuyện đón xuân. Cứ nghe bản “Ly Rượu Mừng” của Phạm Đình Chương là đủ biết:

Ngày xuân nâng chén ta chúc nơi nơi
Mừng anh nông phu vui lúa thơm hơi
Người thương gia lợi tức
Người công nhân ấm no
Thoát ly đời gian lao nghèo khó
Á... a... a... a
Nhấp chén đầy vơi chúc người người vui
Á... a... a... a
Nhấp chén đầy vơi chúc người người vui
Á... a... a... a
Muôn lòng xao xuyến duyên đời
Rót thêm tràn đây chén quan san
Chúc người binh sĩ lên đường
Chiến đấu công thành
Sống cuộc đời lành
Mừng người vì nước quên thân mình

Kìa nơi xa xa có bà mẹ già
Từ lâu mong con mắt vương lệ nhòa
Chúc bà một sớm quê hương
Bước con về hòa nỗi yêu thương
Á... a... a...
Hát khúc hoan ca thắm tươi đời lính
Rượu hân hoan mừng đôi uyên ương
Nào cạn ly mừng người nghệ sĩ
Tiếng thi ca chấm phá tô nên đời mới
Bạn hỡi vang lên lời hứa thiêng liêng
Chúc non sông hào bình hòa bình
Ngày máu sương thôi tuôn rơi
Ngày ấy quê hương yên vui
Đợi anh về trong chén tình đầy vơi
Nhấc cao ly này
Hãy chúc ngày mai sáng trời tự do
Nước non thanh bình
Muôn người hạnh phúc chan hòa

Ước mơ hạnh phúc nơi nơi
Hương thanh bình dâng phơi phới

Coi: nẫy giờ mới chừng mười phút mà mỗi người đã uống đâu cỡ chục ly: ly tặng anh nông phu, ly chào anh công nhân, ly mừng ông thương gia, ly mừng người nghệ sĩ... Chưa đã, còn thêm vài “chén quan san” để “chúc người binh sĩ lên đường” nữa. Thiệt, vui còn hơn tết và cả nước (chắc chắn) đều “xỉn” thấy mẹ luôn!

Thỉnh thoảng mới có vài chiến sĩ say mê chiến đấu (hay đãng trí) đến độ quên luôn cả nhậu, và nhất định “Xuân Này Con Không Về”:

Con biết không về mẹ chờ em trông
Nhưng nếu con về bạn bè thương mong
Bao lớp trai hùng chào xuân chiến trường
Không lẽ riêng mình êm ấm
Mẹ ơi con xuân này không về...

Những chàng “trai hùng chào xuân chiến trường” như thế, tiếc thay, không nhiều và cũng không mấy khi được giữ những chức vụ cao trong quân đội. Điều đáng tiếc hơn nữa là trong cuộc chiến tự vệ vừa qua, quân dân miền Nam đã áp dụng một chiến lược (rất) sai lầm. Thay vì “vui nhiệm vụ không quên xuân” thì họ đã làm ngược lại là “vui xuân nhưng không quên nhiệm vụ”. Nói cách khác “vui xuân” mới là chuyện chính, còn “nhiệm vụ” chỉ là chuyện phụ (và là chuyện nhỏ) thôi!

Cùng lúc – ở miền Bắc Việt Nam – khi Tết đến (sau khi nghe chủ tịch nước, chủ tịch quốc hội, tổng bí thư, thủ trưởng ban ngành, đơn vị... chúc tết xong) là mọi người đâm bổ đi “tranh thủ làm việc gấp hai” để “thi đua lập chiến công dân đảng.” (Đ... mẹ chơi vậy ai chơi cho lại, mấy cha!)

Cuộc chiến Bắc Nam chấm dứt ra sao, vào mùa Xuân năm 1975, mọi người đều biết (và đều tiên đoán được). Từ đó, nhân dân hai miền đều chỉ còn được nghe một bản nhạc xuân duy nhất: Mùa xuân trên thành phố Hồ Chí Minh quang vinh, ôi đẹp biết bao, biết mấy tự hào. Sài Gòn ơi cả nước vẫy tay chào...

Cũng như bạn, tôi chịu không nổi cái loại nhạc (thổ tả) này nên đã vẫy tay chào “thành phố Hồ Chí Minh quang vinh” để... ra đi – và đi hơi sớm. Từ đó đến nay đã quá một phần tư thế kỷ. Hơn ba mươi lăm năm qua biết bao nhiêu là nước sông, nước suối, nước mương, nước rãnh... đã ào ào chảy qua cầu (và qua cống)/

Chiều nay, chiều cuối năm, ở một góc trời xa, tôi ngồi ghi lại những ý nghĩ lan man vụn vặt để gửi bạn đọc chơi – sau khi nghe hết một CD nhạc trong quán vắng, bắt đầu từ bản Hoa Xuân của Phạm Duy, đến bản cuối cùng (“Xuân Này Con Không Về”) của Trịnh Lâm Ngân.

Nhạc xuân gì mà nghe buồn quá má ơi!

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Bà xã thuộc loại hoài cổ, năm nào cũng trưng bầy mâm ngũ quả y hệt nhau, xanh đỏ vàng cho em nhỏ nó mê.

Hôm nay ngày giáp tết, tôi đi làm, dù tay còn đau sau khi mổ, bà cũng ráng gồng mình lái xe từ Irvine xuống Little saigon (khoảng 15 miles, 30 cây số) để mua cho bằng được dưa, mãng cầu, soài, bánh trưng, bánh tét, giò huế. Lại còn làm dưa món để ăn với bánh tét.

Chịu thua bà xã luôn.

mâm hoa qua
http://i.imgur.com/hx1dFwW.jpg

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

chào mọi người.

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Ba ngày tết ăn bánh tét chiên với dưa món thât là bá cháy.

Toi qua cu cậu lớn thèm ăn bánh tét chiên, tự động đem ra nướng, hỏi daddy có ăn không?

Cho daddy một miếng ăn lấy thảo.

hehehehe.

Ăn xong mới nhớ mình đang bị tiểu đường. Thôi thi uống thuốc bù trừ. chơi luôn 2 viên cho chắc ăn thay vì một.

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Nghe quan em nhắc lại chuyện nói tiếng Đức như hát hay.

tôi lại nhớ đến câu chuyen vợ chồng bác Tám xóm tui. Câu chuyện xảy ra đã lâu lắm rồi hình như năm 1965.

thời đó xóm tôi có một cái giếng sâu và rộng, hồi đó chưa có nước máy, cả khu xóm cỡ mấy chục nhà mà chỉ độc có một cái giếng. tui và anh tôi có nhiệm vụ ra giếng múc nước đổ vào cái thùng phi, sau đó dùng phèn chua khuấy để cấn đọng xuống đáy và làm cho nước trong. bởi vậy nước uống lúc nào cũng phải nấu sôi đổ vào bình thuỷ để uống dần, uống lạnh thì bệnh chết.

Vợ chồng bác Tám có cái nhà ở cạnh giếng. Chồng chạy xe ngựa, còn bác Tám gái tui chỉ thấy ở nhà đánh bài.

có bữa đang chơi với bọn trẻ trong xóm, tui nghe thấy tiếng oanh vàng thỏ thẻ của bà Tám đột nhiên cao vút.

- Đ.M. mày đứng lợi hổng có tao chém chết tía mày bây giờ.

Tui thấy bà Tám gái tay cầm dao phay, miệng thì hát tiếng Đức, đuổi bác Tám trai chạy vòng quanh giếng, may là cái giếng to chứ không thì đã có án mạng xảy ra. Bác Tám trai cũng đâu vừa, vừa chạy vừa quay đầu lai xổ bằng tiếng Đan Mach.

- Đ.M. mày có ngon thì bỏ dao xuống, hổng có tao đánh thấy mẹ mày bây giờ.

Miệng la bải hoải doạ đánh bà Tám mà đâu có dám đứng lợi.

Cũng may là có hàng xóm chạy ra can ngăn, chứ không thi bác Tám trai cứ phải chạy vòng quanh giếng dài dài.

Sợ vợ là phải đạo, hahaha.

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Xóm này là một trong các xóm ở khu Ngã Ba Ông Tạ, ngay góc Lê Văn Duyet và Thoai Ngoc Hầu, ngó mặt qua trường Thánh Tâm, xóm nhà lá này hồi đó còn nghèo lắm, năm 1965 mà.

Chỗ này hồi đó là bãi đậu xe ngựa. Còn có ông thợ thay móng ngựa, tui thích đứng coi ông thợ cầm cái xủi để xủi phần dưới của móng. Cứt ngựa thì khỏi nói tùm lum, toàn mầu xanh của cỏ.

[Red Apple]

Chào Mr. Hiệp :z57:

Mr. Hiệp kể chuyện vui, Green Apple đọc mà cười quá xá. Thanks Mr. Hiệp for a good laugh. Tiếng Đan Mạch hơi khó nghe chút ahihi. Have a good evening nhe Mr. Hiệp !


https://uphinhnhanh.com/images/2018/02/22/Laugh.jpg

[RaginCajun]

Bác Hiệp kể lại cảnh sinh hoạt trong mấy xóm lao động làm nhớ SG quá. Ở VN mà có cảnh bà dí ông kiểu đó thì ông này thuộc loại sợ vợ đệ nhất thiên hạ rồi. Tớ phải bái phục á. Bả hát tiếng Đức mà không chạy, đứng lại bả cho đi Đứt sao.


Xóm này là một trong các xóm ở khu Ngã Ba Ông Tạ, ngay góc Lê Văn Duyet và Thoai Ngoc Hầu, ngó mặt qua trường Thánh Tâm, xóm nhà lá này hồi đó còn nghèo lắm, năm 1965 mà.

Khúc này làm tớ nhớ rõ mồn một khu vực này

[Red Apple]

Bác Hiệp kể lại cảnh sinh hoạt trong mấy xóm lao động làm nhớ SG quá. Ở VN mà có cảnh bà dí ông kiểu đó thì ông này thuộc loại sợ vợ đệ nhất thiên hạ rồi. Tớ phải bái phục á. Bả hát tiếng Đức mà không chạy, đứng lại bả cho đi Đứt sao.



Good morning Mr Hiệp và RC dear ! :z57:

Đọc chuyện của Mr. Hiệp cười té ghế đã đành, giờ RC còn nói đi Đứt ahihi. Ai rượt thì mình phải chạy thôi cho nên người ta mới có cái tên "Thầy Chạy" ahihi. :z13:

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Chào Mr. Hiệp :z57:

Mr. Hiệp kể chuyện vui, Green Apple đọc mà cười quá xá. Thanks Mr. Hiệp for a good laugh. Tiếng Đan Mạch hơi khó nghe chút ahihi. Have a good evening nhe Mr. Hiệp !


https://uphinhnhanh.com/images/2018/02/22/Laugh.jpg


chào GA, cười tươi quá coi chừng trẹo quai hàm, hahaha

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Bác Hiệp kể lại cảnh sinh hoạt trong mấy xóm lao động làm nhớ SG quá. Ở VN mà có cảnh bà dí ông kiểu đó thì ông này thuộc loại sợ vợ đệ nhất thiên hạ rồi. Tớ phải bái phục á. Bả hát tiếng Đức mà không chạy, đứng lại bả cho đi Đứt sao.



Khúc này làm tớ nhớ rõ mồn một khu vực này

thầy Tôm ở khu nào mà lạc tới tận vùng này vậy?

chắc đi cua đào NBOT.

Sau 1969, khu NBOT này bốc giầu nhanh chóng

[RaginCajun]

Nhà em còn bé chưa biết cua đào nhưng hay theo ông cụ đi kiếm món cũng hấp dẫn lắm :p. Nhà tớ ở Trương Tấn Bửu (phải nói tên đừơng cũ bác Hiệp mới hình dung ra đựơc)

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Nhà em còn bé chưa biết cua đào nhưng hay theo ông cụ đi kiếm món cũng hấp dẫn lắm :p. Nhà tớ ở Trương Tấn Bửu (phải nói tên đừơng cũ bác Hiệp mới hình dung ra đựơc)

Ô! Bác Tôm cũng là dân Sai Gon ha! thôi thì nghe các nhạc phẩm viết về Sai Gon cho đỡ nhớ.

Trương Tấn Bửu cũng gần NBOT, đạp xe đạp cái vèo là tới. tớ biết món hấp dẫn đó là gì rồi.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bX1ljVWWCM4

[Red Apple]

Ô! Bác Tôm cũng là dân Sai Gon ha! thôi thì nghe các nhạc phẩm viết về Sai Gon cho đỡ nhớ.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bX1ljVWWCM4

Chào Mr. Hiệp, hello anh NVHN, :z57:
Green Apple cũng là dân Sài gòn. Chạy vô nghe nhạc với bạn RC. Cô Khánh Ly hát bài đầu tiên nghe hay quá. Cảm ơn Mr. Hiệp nhiều. Chiều mưa lành lạnh nghe nhạc nhớ nhà. :z57:

[tư]

Ô! Bác Tôm cũng là dân Sai Gon ha! thôi thì nghe các nhạc phẩm viết về Sai Gon cho đỡ nhớ.

Trương Tấn Bửu cũng gần NBOT, đạp xe đạp cái vèo là tới. tớ biết món hấp dẫn đó là gì rồi.



tôi đang đi lang thang
bỗng nghe mùi hương lạ ...
thoảng ra từ ngã ba ...
bèn quá giang mơ màng ...
một thời hun hút xa ..
cô bắc kỳ nho nhỏ
tóc ngang lưng rất hiền
đi học về qua phố
hương tóc và hương ... giềng
ru đời mãi thơn tho.

:z5:

p.s cụ Đậu nhà mình cũng là dân ngã Ba kỳ cựu đó (gái Nam Thái - trai An Lạc ;) ), lẽ ra thoáng thấy hương tóc cô bấc kỳ là thể nào cụ cũng ghé qua ôn cố dăm câu nhưng từ khi ,,, đời cầm cái chai ... đời cài cái châm ... chẳng biết cụ còn nhã hứng ghé qua nhà anh Hiệp hay không ? :z5:

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

tôi đang đi lang thang
bỗng nghe mùi hương lạ ...
thoảng ra từ ngã ba ...
bèn quá giang mơ màng ...
một thời hun hút xa ..
cô bắc kỳ nho nhỏ
tóc ngang lưng rất hiền
đi học về qua phố
hương tóc và hương ... giềng
ru đời mãi thơn tho.

:z5:

p.s cụ Đậu nhà mình cũng là dân ngã Ba kỳ cựu đó (gái Nam Thái - trai An Lạc ;) ), lẽ ra thoáng thấy hương tóc cô bấc kỳ là thể nào cụ cũng ghé qua ôn cố dăm câu nhưng từ khi ,,, đời cầm cái chai ... đời cài cái châm ... chẳng biết cụ còn nhã hứng ghé qua nhà anh Hiệp hay không ? :z5:

Trời! Trời! Anh Tu

xuất khẩu thành thơ

ngui mùi hương tóc của nàng, làm răng lại thành ra hương..giềng.

p.s hy vọng cụ Đậu ghé thăm làm một bài mới về hương lạ

[tư]

Trời! Trời! Anh Tu

xuất khẩu thành thơ

ngui mùi hương tóc của nàng, làm răng lại thành ra hương..giềng.

p.s hy vọng cụ Đậu ghé thăm làm một bài mới về hương lạ

Tự dưng đầu năm anh nhắc NBOT làm nhớ nhiều kỷ niệm. Hồi đó tôi có quen mấy cô hát ca đoàn ở nhà thờ Lộc Hưng (Sơn Tây) mỗi khi tới đó để đi chơi với mấy cổ, tôi và vài người bạn chứ không phải mình tôi được đi chơi với mấy cổ đâu ;) đi từ trong nhà thờ LH qua con đường nhỏ cạnh vười rau sau lưng nhà giây thép gió, đạp xe đi bên mấy cổ mà tụi tôi nghe hồn mình lâng lâng bởi mùi hương từ mái tóc mấy cổ đến hồi ra tới góc đường LVD thì đột nhiên có mùi hương ... lạ ngan ngát lan tỏa át cả mùi nhu hương nãy giờ lảm phơi phơi hồn người. Mùi hương tóc có vẻ như kém hương hơn mùi hương lạ vì hương tóc không làm người phàm nuốt nước miệng ừng ực ;)

Cái ôn Trump quả là báo hại phố mình, khi xưa chưa có ổng thì phố vui vẻ hơn nhiều có xích mích thì chỉ là giữa cá nhân nay thì như là phố chia làm 2 phe, phe nào chơi với phe ấy. Nhắc chuyên ngã ba và mùi hương lạ mà thiếu cụ Đậu thì như cái gì đó thiếu ... mẻ

[Lê Nguyễn Hiệp]

Tự dưng đầu năm anh nhắc NBOT làm nhớ nhiều kỷ niệm. Hồi đó tôi có quen mấy cô hát ca đoàn ở nhà thờ Lộc Hưng (Sơn Tây) mỗi khi tới đó để đi chơi với mấy cổ, tôi và vài người bạn chứ không phải mình tôi được đi chơi với mấy cổ đâu ;) đi từ trong nhà thờ LH qua con đường nhỏ cạnh vười rau sau lưng nhà giây thép gió, đạp xe đi bên mấy cổ mà tụi tôi nghe hồn mình lâng lâng bởi mùi hương từ mái tóc mấy cổ đến hồi ra tới góc đường LVD thì đột nhiên có mùi hương ... lạ ngan ngát lan tỏa át cả mùi nhu hương nãy giờ lảm phơi phơi hồn người. Mùi hương tóc có vẻ như kém hương hơn mùi hương lạ vì hương tóc không làm người phàm nuốt nước miệng ừng ực ;)

Cái ôn Trump quả là báo hại phố mình, khi xưa chưa có ổng thì phố vui vẻ hơn nhiều có xích mích thì chỉ là giữa cá nhân nay thì như là phố chia làm 2 phe, phe nào chơi với phe ấy. Nhắc chuyên ngã ba và mùi hương lạ mà thiếu cụ Đậu thì như cái gì đó thiếu ... mẻ

Lộc Hưng sau nhà giây thép gió, có ruộng rau muống rộng mênh mông bát ngát. Con đường nhỏ mà anh đi rất gần chỗ mùi hương tỏa ra hèn chi nó át mùi tóc em là phải.

Chủ nhật này là ngày gặp mặt hội đồng hương NBOT ăn mừng tết Mậu Tuất ở Little Saigon, không biết có đi được không. Muốn đi lắm để gặp lại các cô bắc kỳ nho nhỏ xinh xinh, giờ biến thành các lão bà trên 60 coi ra thế nào, không biết có nhận ra không? thời gian ác nghiệt thiệt tình!

p.s. chắc phải đợi sau bầu cử ông Trump xuống thì phố xá mới trở lại như cũ

[Mỹ Hằng]

Tự dưng đầu năm anh nhắc NBOT làm nhớ nhiều kỷ niệm. Hồi đó tôi có quen mấy cô hát ca đoàn ở nhà thờ Lộc Hưng (Sơn Tây) mỗi khi tới đó để đi chơi với mấy cổ, tôi và vài người bạn chứ không phải mình tôi được đi chơi với mấy cổ đâu ;) đi từ trong nhà thờ LH qua con đường nhỏ cạnh vười rau sau lưng nhà giây thép gió, đạp xe đi bên mấy cổ mà tụi tôi nghe hồn mình lâng lâng bởi mùi hương từ mái tóc mấy cổ đến hồi ra tới góc đường LVD thì đột nhiên có mùi hương ... lạ ngan ngát lan tỏa át cả mùi nhu hương nãy giờ lảm phơi phơi hồn người. Mùi hương tóc có vẻ như kém hương hơn mùi hương lạ vì hương tóc không làm người phàm nuốt nước miệng ừng ực ;)Cái ôn Trump quả là báo hại phố mình, khi xưa chưa có ổng thì phố vui vẻ hơn nhiều có xích mích thì chỉ là giữa cá nhân nay thì như là phố chia làm 2 phe, phe nào chơi với phe ấy. Nhắc chuyên ngã ba và mùi hương lạ mà thiếu cụ Đậu thì như cái gì đó thiếu ... mẻAnh bác đập choai num bờ pho noái có muồi hương làm ngừ phàm nuốc nướt bọt rừng rựt ở chỗ gần đường LVD, NBOT tôi biết muồi nài nà. Muồi mắm guốc chong tiệm bún bò anh điên, ủa nói lộn, anh diên bai ga chớ đâu. Mắm guốc nấu dới xã thì thơm, đứng mình ên thúi quắc cầng câu ngheo anh bác đập choai num bờ pho. Nhạc nhớ dìa Sì Gòn nghe hai thặc là hai anh bác đẹp troai LNH ưi. Tôi sao nài trướt khi đi Mỷ củng lên Sì Gòn làm dấy tờ, làm quy xa, khám xức phẻ, kiu lên, kiu suống nên biếc chúc đỉnh mấy chỗ en uống. Bửa nai biếc thim cô em ahihi là dân Sì Gòn, bửa nào dờ nghỉ cô em là dân bắc kỳ chớ.

[tư]

Lộc Hưng sau nhà giây thép gió, có ruộng rau muống rộng mênh mông bát ngát. Con đường nhỏ mà anh đi rất gần chỗ mùi hương tỏa ra hèn chi nó át mùi tóc em là phải.

Chủ nhật này là ngày gặp mặt hội đồng hương NBOT ăn mừng tết Mậu Tuất ở Little Saigon, không biết có đi được không. Muốn đi lắm để gặp lại các cô bắc kỳ nho nhỏ xinh xinh, giờ biến thành các lão bà trên 60 coi ra thế nào, không biết có nhận ra không? thời gian ác nghiệt thiệt tình!

p.s. chắc phải đợi sau bầu cử ông Trump xuống thì phố xá mới trở lại như cũ

Anh Hiệp đi du học từ trước 75 phải không? Hồi đầu thập niên 70 không biết họ có bán mùi hương lâ trên xe đẩy giống như xe hủ tíu, nước mia không anh? Sau này khoảng cuối 70's đậu 80's, lúc tôi hay đi dọc theo vườn rau LH có nhiều xe đẩy với mùi hương lạ lắm. Tôi có thằng bạn khu Nghĩa Hoà cũng tậu một xe nhưng vài tháng sau bán xe vì lỗ vốn bởi chủ xe và bạn bè ... nhậu dữ quá .)

Vâng anh, thời gian ta2n nhẫn thật, Hôm bữa người bạn có đi gặp và xin chụp hình mấy bk nho nhỏ xinh xinh trong ca đoàn và hôi Legio của Nam Hoà, Nghĩa Hoà, Lộc Hưng, Tân Sa Châu, Tân Chí Linh gửi cho tôi, coi xong tôi mém khóc anh ơi, vôi vàng lấy gương nhìn lại mình thì thấy đời cũng đã ... xanh rêu ;)

@cô em đẹp gái num bừa phưa Mỹ Hằng làm tôi nhớ mắm ruốc xào xả ớt thịt ba chỉ quá nha. Lâu quá tôi chưa ăn lại bên tôi trời lành lạnh có ăn với dưa chuộc và cơm là hết biết.

[tư]

Ô! Bác Tôm cũng là dân Sai Gon ha! thôi thì nghe các nhạc phẩm viết về Sai Gon cho đỡ nhớ.

Trương Tấn Bửu cũng gần NBOT, đạp xe đạp cái vèo là tới. tớ biết món hấp dẫn đó là gì rồi.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bX1ljVWWCM4

Mang qua nghe tiếp cho thêm nhớ SG...

[tư]

... và một chút cây nhà lá vườn, giọng ca phố


https://youtu.be/6QYAuN-FeR8

... mong anh Hiệp không phiền, cho nỗi nhớ tới bến luôn nha anh.

[RaginCajun]

Bác Tư phá nhau hoài nha. Đang nghe nhạc, nhìn qua khung cửa sổ văn phòng, ngoài kia trời u ám mưa lất phất... chết người thật đấy chứ. Mưa ngaòi kia mà trong này bị ướt mới đau.

[Red Apple]

Anh bác đập choai num bờ pho noái có muồi hương làm ngừ phàm nuốc nướt bọt rừng rựt ở chỗ gần đường LVD, NBOT tôi biết muồi nài nà. Muồi mắm guốc chong tiệm bún bò anh điên, ủa nói lộn, anh diên bai ga chớ đâu. Mắm guốc nấu dới xã thì thơm, đứng mình ên thúi quắc cầng câu ngheo anh bác đập choai num bờ pho. Nhạc nhớ dìa Sì Gòn nghe hai thặc là hai anh bác đẹp troai LNH ưi. Tôi sao nài trướt khi đi Mỷ củng lên Sì Gòn làm dấy tờ, làm quy xa, khám xức phẻ, kiu lên, kiu suống nên biếc chúc đỉnh mấy chỗ en uống. Bửa nai biếc thim cô em ahihi là dân Sì Gòn, bửa nào dờ nghỉ cô em là dân bắc kỳ chớ.

Em chào chị Mỹ Hằng ! :z57: Green Apple chào tất cả các anh chị ở trong thread này nha! :z57:

Em sinh ra và lớn lên ở "Sì Gòn" chị ạ. Quê ngoại em ở Hà Nội. Hồi nhỏ có thời gian em được mẹ gởi ở với ngoại nên nói tiếng bắc kỳ rặt. Chị Mỹ Hằng biết tiệm bún bò Huế Anh Duyên phía sau nhà thờ Lộc Hưng hả chị? Tiệm đó của gia đình bạn học em í chị ạ. Anh Duyên, chị nói nhầm anh điên, chị làm em mắc cười té ghế luôn à. Í mà chị nói vậy coi chừng "anh bác đập choai num bờ pho" của chị tưởng chị chọc bác í điên, bác giận chị đó. Í mà bác í hiền lắm không giận chị Mỹ Hằng đâu hén bác Tư hén.

Em gởi hình quán bún bò Anh Duyên ở phía sau nhà thờ Lộc Hưng, các anh chị có về Sài Gòn chơi ghé qua ăn ủng hộ nhà bạn của em nha.

Chúc Mr. Hiệp và tất cả các anh chị một ngày thứ Sáu vui vẻ nha! :z57:


https://uphinhnhanh.com/images/2018/02/23/BBH.jpg

[RaginCajun]

Lộc Hưng sau nhà giây thép gió, có ruộng rau muống rộng mênh mông bát ngát. Con đường nhỏ mà anh đi rất gần chỗ mùi hương tỏa ra hèn chi nó át mùi tóc em là phải.

Chủ nhật này là ngày gặp mặt hội đồng hương NBOT ăn mừng tết Mậu Tuất ở Little Saigon, không biết có đi được không. Muốn đi lắm để gặp lại các cô bắc kỳ nho nhỏ xinh xinh, giờ biến thành các lão bà trên 60 coi ra thế nào, không biết có nhận ra không? thời gian ác nghiệt thiệt tình!

p.s. chắc phải đợi sau bầu cử ông Trump xuống thì phố xá mới trở lại như cũ

Trên 60 thì có thể lại đẹp (lão) hẳn ra đấy bác. Sợ nhất là tuổi trẻ đã qua mà già chưa tới.