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I Think of This Every Time I Think of Mountains

Track 18: "GIRL MISSING LOVER"
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Written by Souphine Phathsoungneune, sung by Phady Phathsoungneune, accompanied by Bounthanh Thongsouvanh on kaen.

translation:

I Think of This Every Time I Think of Mountains Audio CD

Girl Missing Lover
(excerpts from an undated love song)

...I'm waiting for you at night
I'm waiting for you in the morning
I think I'll get old for nothing
Until the years have passed,
The months have passed
The seasons have passed,
I've been waiting since June through summer's merit.
You make me get all dressed up in a beautiful dress waiting for you.
The leaves turn yellow.
I'm still waiting for you but you don't pay attention.
The yellow leaves fall down.
Only branches are left.
Your heart went away from me.
Today the mist makes the sky look gray,
It's snowing everywhere.
Look up north to Canada,
Where the border is close to Vermont.
My heart is full of sadness;
I'm standing here, weary.
I'm missing my sisters.
Here it is very far away from Laos...

...You make someone in Vermont wait for you
And have a dream she will marry you.
...I bought beef and pork waiting for you.
You didn't come, you left me behind.
You met the new one, and forgot the old one.
...You see the silk and forgot the cotton.
You see the boss and forgot the worker.
You see the berry;
You see the very clear crystal that has a red light shine
It makes you forget ugly Phady who is like fake gold...

Don't go forever, don't die yet.
If some good day and you have changed or have free time,
please come to visit me.
I live in Vermont.
The forest area is where I live.
Don't listen to people who say I have moved.
Phady never moved anywhere.
I don't have too many hearts or too many houses.
I'm not floating.
I have enough to eat.
I have enough to survive;
Just enough to make me happy.
Don't think that I will run away from my house.
Living here or there is the same.
Heaven and America are the same.
No Viet-minh to harm you like before.
No suffering.
The country is very peaceful.
Who want to come visit, I welcome you...

But I want to tell you one thing before you come.
There is so much snow over the road now.
In the 12th month and the cold wind comes.
In the 1st and 2nd month the snow covers everything.
Laotian people around this area have come together once a month.
Those who don't believe me,
come and look if you think I don't say the truth.
On the road the cars can go only slowly.
Only 20 miles an hour.
Its so dangerous for people who are on the road.
You have to go slowly.
You can die easily.
If you go too fast you will die for sure.
Today is so cold. It's snowing.
Its over my roof.
It's over my driveway.
Phady looks at the snow falling down.
The snow has been falling from the sky three days nonstop.
It's snowing from evening through morning non-stop.
It comes from Wednesday evening through Thursday,
Friday and Satruday, non stop.
How about where you live?
Is it the same? I want to ask my lover.
Is it cold in the state where you live?

Written by Souphine Phathsoungneune for his wife Phady to sing.
Translated by Aew Ladd.