After The War - Paul Gross (Việt Thuyền Nhân) - Sung by Sarah Slean

Paul Gross - After the War Lyrics:
After the guns are silent
After your wounds have healed
After those crosses
Have been planted in all those fields
After that long boat ride
All the way across the sea
And after this train carries me

[Chorus:]
I will love you after the war
Love you for always, forever more
I will love you after the war
Forever for always and more

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After your boots dry
and the tobacco's all but gone
Long before those
postcards you've
carried
under your arm
After I remember
The words I couldn't say
And after this long night fades away

[Chorus:]
After this blackbird
lifts up from off your chest
And after your soul takes it's final rest
My love, I forgive you
I never planned to die
and love, I'll place two pennies over your eyes

A PRAYER FOR LAND

Lost in the tempests
out on the open seas
our small boats drift
we seek for land
during endless days and endless nights

we are the foam
floating on the vast ocean
we are the dust
wandering in endless space
our cries are lost
in the howling wind

without food, without water,
our children lie exhausted
until they cry no more

we thirst for land
but are turned back from every shore
our distress signals rise and rise again
but the passing ships do not stop
how many boats have perished
how many families lie beneath the waves

Lord Jesus, do you hear the prayer of our flesh?
Lord Buddha, do you hear our voice?
O fellow humans, do you hear our voice
from the abyss of death?
o solid shore
we long for you!

We pray for Mankind to be present today!
We pray for Land to stretch its arms to us!
We pray that Hope be given us
TODAY, from any Land!

Xin Đừng Quên Tôi

Thuyền Nhân

Boat people is a term that usually refers to illegal immigrants or asylum seekers who emigrate en masse in boats that are sometimes old and crudely made rendering them unseaworthy and unsafe. The term came into common use during the late 1970s with the mass departure of Vietnamese refugees from Communist-controlled Vietnam, following the Vietnam War.

Events resulting from the Vietnam War led many people in Cambodia, Laos, and especially Vietnam to become refugees in the late 1970s and 1980s, after the fall of Saigon. In Vietnam, the new communist government sent many people who supported the old government in the South to "re-education camps", and others to "new economic zones." An estimated 1 million people were imprisoned without formal charges or trials. According to published academic studies in the United States and Europe, 165,000 people died in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam's re-education camps. Thousands were abused or tortured. These factors, coupled with poverty, caused hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese to flee the country. In 1979, Vietnam was at war (Sino-Vietnamese War) with the People's Republic of China (PRC). Many ethnic Chinese living in Vietnam, who felt that the government's policies directly targeted them, also became "boat people." On the open seas, the boat people had to confront forces of nature, and elude pirates.

The plight of the boat people became an international humanitarian crisis. There were untold miseries, rapes and murders on the South China Sea committed by Thai pirates who preyed on the refugees who had sold all their possessions and carried gold with them on the trips. The UNHCR, under the auspices of the United Nations, set up refugee camps in neighbouring countries to process the "boat people". They received the 1981 Nobel Peace Prize for this.

Camps were set up in Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines, Hong Kong, and Indonesia. According to stories told by the Vietnamese refugees, the conditions at the camps were poor. Very little of the aid money donated primarily by the United States actually got to the refugees. Refugees at Thai camps were maltreated and many were brutally bullied by the Thai guards. Some 863 Vietnamese were known to be raped, 763 people physically attacked and killed, and 489 people abducted, some 77% of refugee boats leaving in 1981 were attacked by Thais.[4] Most of the refugees came from the former South Vietnam. However, soon after the first wave between 1975-1978, North Vietnamese from seaside cities such as Haiphong started to escape and land in Hong Kong. Among them were genuine ethnically Chinese Vietnamese refugees who escaped from Vietnam and headed to China and Hong Kong.

One forgotten group of Vietnamese boat people were those who escaped by land across the Cambodian and Thailand border. They did not travel by boat, but they ended up at the same camps just like those who braved the seas.

Music is from the movie Passchendaele.

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[khoinugent]

It took a "Yankee's" heart to be touched by my people's misery to write this wonderful song

It took another "Yankee's" voice to show the love, the compassion to the wretched people that are mine.

I LOVE MY YANKEES!!!

Thank you!!!

Why did I take so long to discover this jewel?

Khoi N. Nguyen, M.D.

[granako]

Canadian:)

[Bakuji]

"We pray for Mankind to be present today!

We pray for Land to stretch its arms to us!

We pray that Hope be given us

TODAY, from any Land! "

[oldiesedit]

I've never seen such a moving depiction of the ordeal and extremes that the 'Boat People' faced in their attempts to escape from the war!!! I was saddened to read the statistics of their treatment in the Thai camps...something, I was not aware of...As always, you have given me something to think about! 5*

[marthaBot]

So beautiful,it is very very special to me and my Fiance.

[ssizzlejr]

love paul gross and love this song by sarah. jeezz its so great

FRIKIN PROUD CANADIAN RIGHT HERE. ♥♥

[Ciciadds]

My wife and I like this song a lot; however, the producer had accidentally used the Vietnam Communist Party flag - red flag with yellow star in the video (see 3:06). This is a very BIG mistake. The Boat People were from South Vietnam and represented by the YELLOW with 3 RED STRIPES flag. They risked their life to escape from the Communist Regime. Many thanks to Paul Gross for writing this song, and God bless the boat people.

[billymadison97]

when i first heard this song i cryd 4 a long time so ill giv that a big helpin of....... 5*x2

[this0033]

I've just watched the movie, one of the best I've ever seen. It really shows the futility of war.

[JesterOI]

Paul Gross and Sarah Slean are both Canadian.

[LillySoleil]

Très Très belle chanson d'amour... !!!

J'ai une pensée très particulière pour tous ceux qui sont morts au combat...!!!

Malheureusement, il n'a pas respecté ... LA RÈGLE...mais bon... NE MEURE PAS...!!!

Je suis si triste parce que je connais un merveilleux homme qui est parti à la guerre!!!

Que Dieu te protège mon amour...!!!

Et n'oublie pas la règle : NE MEURE PAS...!!!

mais Reviens-moi...!!! Je t'aime tant...!!!

Ta princessexxx