English translation of song lyrics by Vuong Thanh:

O Saigon, O My Love

Each night dreaming of you with nostalgic longings

Each hour, each minute, my heart’s full of yearnings

O Glorious Saigon, so vibrant with Life and Love

But a memory of the years and months long ago

O Saigon, O My Love

When the evening falls, I reminisce about you 

Light patches of clouds fleeting by

On my way back to the city

Saigon with rosy sunshine

Whose áo dài dress

gently, in the wind, flies, 

So homelandish and affectionate

filling my heart with happy delight

Chorus: Thirty years apart from you in a foreign city

Thirty years, I keep waiting for a day to come back home

O Motherland, forever tenderly sweet in my subconscious

One day will come 

when the Light of Peace and Prosperity

shines  throughout the land 

O Saigon, O My Love,

One day, you will have peaceful joy 

in a new world of Compasssion and Love

Everyone will see the Light of God’s Ways

Happiness and Freedom throughout the land

I’ll come back to Saigon and sleep with a dream of Peace and Love.

Coda:

O Saigon, My Love, O Saigon, Saigon… 

Phan Anh Dũng      Tâm Hảo