Hello Viet Nam | The Most Popular Song in Viet Nam Tourism Industry | Live Guitar Cover

**One day, I’ll come to you – to say Hello Viet Nam! **😊

That’s the lyrics of a very special song in my life!

Hello Viet Nam - By Pham Quynh Anh

If you ever wonder in Viet Nam, which song is used the most when it comes to international tourism industry, the song that we perform a lot to our international friends, you'll find your answer here ^^

Today is 1 year 10 months since I last worked as an international tourguide. How the pandemic has changed many people’s lives and also mine!
We are dancing with waves, not just trying to survive, also trying to create something new, something to adapt to this new situation.
We miss the old times but we gotta follow the sun – the future!

Why this song is so special to me?

In 2016, I graduated in Vietnamese Studies and my major was tourguide – Beside making music, only working as a tourguide makes me feel so free and happy, and it fulfills my adventurous heart!

I focused on doing inbound tours – the kind of tours where I got to introduce my Viet Nam to international tourists who visit Viet Nam from different countries. I always knew what I wanted and what I was doing to get there!

The thing is it was not me being able to study to be a tourguide that easily! I had to spend one year before that to study in another college temporarily to wait to do another exam to get into the university that I wanted! 😃

A harsh year suffering failing the first test, a harsh year for the first time being away from home with the lack of food, health, support, in a new environment, and as an introvert in personal life, I felt lost, I felt lonely, I felt like giving up many times! 😪

But my spirit to become a tourguide was too strong to let things be. And what made that magic!??
This song! This song sticked with me 24/7 🌻

It woke up with me, it went to bed with me, walked around with me, came to class with me.
I remember back then was 2012, I was listening to this song in a broken phone which I could not even see the screen but I always remembered how to press the button to get to that song without looking at the screen! 😆
Bittersweet! To me anything can turn sweet after I have gone through it.

I got successful to study at my dream school and the major that I wanted! It was Ho Chi Minh City University of Culture.
I graduated from that school in 2016 and got to work on my passion - tourguide job for a few years until covid hit in February 2020, that was my last tour!

My tours were always special ones cause it was so free, so adventurous, so meaningful and also a bit crazy!
I think my instinct is to consult and to guide, to give instruction – and my most favorite moment is when I get successful explaining something which brings joy and happiness to people haha
The more difficult the things are, the more I want to find out a way to explain it.
If all words don’t work, I’ll bring out my music (maybe) haha

I miss my touguide job! I love my Viet Nam. I love the culture and our history. No matter how much of a open minded person I am and even now I'm a mixed-culture person, I still somehow live on my Vietnamese culture foundation!
I miss my job like crazy, miss it like how I’m gonna cry when I sing this song 😌

About the song:

This song's original name is "Bonjour Vietnam".

"Bonjour Vietnam" is a song composed by Marc Lavoine, co-written by Lavoine and Yvan Coriat, and recorded by Vietnamese-Belgian singer Quynh Anh. Lavoine said he was impressed by Quynh Anh's charm and talent as well as being touched by the feeling of a small girl who had never seen her homeland, so he wrote the song as a gift for her. The content of the song is about the longing of an overseas Vietnamese to the homeland.

Popularity

The song received favorable acclaim from Vietnamese communities, both at home and abroad as well as from the francophone community. Thuy Nga Productions featured the song in several shows for overseas Vietnamese all over the world. By 2008, due to its popularity, the song was translated into English by Guy Balbaert with the name "Hello Vietnam" (not to be confused with the song "Hello Vietnam" written by Tom T. Hall and recorded by American country music singer Johnnie Wright in 1965). In May 2008, Quynh Anh made a special appearance singing the song "Hello Vietnam" in Thúy Nga's Paris By Night 92 show. Later, Quynh Anh released the single "Hello Vietnam".

If you ever visit Viet Nam and go on flights of VietjetAirlines, you'll hear this song playing whenever you land.
It is everywhere whenever Vietnamese us want to show our spirit to introduce Viet Nam to you.
This song unconsciously became a theme song of Viet Nam tourism industry!
Hope you enjoy my slow relaxing version - I felt emotional to play it this time so that was what I went for ^^
Come visit us someday! Viet Nam will love you! 😊

Little Beatle ♫
(I don't know why I felt like closing my eyes as I was singing this song, also you can see how my little microphone works haha)

Here are the lyrics:

Hello Viet Nam

Tell me all about this name, that is difficult to say
It was given me the day I was born
Want to know about the stories of the empire of old
My eyes say more of me than what you dare to say
All I know of you is all the sights of war
A film by Coppola, the helicopter's roar
One day I'll touch your soil
One day I'll finally know your soul
One day I'll come to you
To say hello... Vietnam

Tell me all about my colour, my hair and my little feet
That have carried me every mile of the way
Want to see your house, your streets
Show me all I do not know
Wooden sampans, floatings markets, light of gold
All I know of you is the sights of war
A film by Coppola, the helicopter's roar
One day I'll touch your soil
One day I'll finally know your soul
One day I'll come to you
To say hello... Vietnam

And Buddha's made of stone watch over me
My dreams they lead me through the fields of rice
In prayer, in the light, I see my kin
I touch my tree, my roots, my begin

One day I'll touch your soil
One day I'll finally know your soul
One day I'll come to you
To say hello... Vietnam
One day I'll walk your soil
One day I'll finally know my soul
One day I'll come to you
To say hello... Vietnam
To say hello... Vietnam
To say xin chao... Vietnam...