Hai Hoa

Country: Vietnam
Language: Vietnamese

“Hai Hoa” is Vietnamese farming song, sung about the flower harvest. We when we sing the song in our classes we “pick” our children as flowers, putting colored scarves over their heads, clapping and singing and harvesting all.

Colorful flowers — brilliant yellow, orange and red blossoms — are an essential symbol of renewal and good luck during Vietnamese Lunar New Year celebration of Tet. Flower farms prepare all year for the December harvest in advance of the February holiday.

While we’re not singing the song ourselves we can enjoy the heck out of this video of Tran Quang Hai’s exciting version, performed on the coin clappers.

My friend my friend the flower time has come
You have to pick the flowers pick them one by one
Pick them one by one, ’til flower time is done
A ring ting ting ting ting, a ring ting ting ting ting
My friend my friend, the butterfly is here
The butterfly is here to bring the flowers love
To bring the flowers love, to bring the flowers love
A ring ting ting ting ting, a ring ting ting ting ting
Hai hoa, hai hoa, my friend my friend
We sing the flower song and then we sing again
’til every flower’s gone, ’til every flower’s gone.
A ring ting ting ting ting, a ring ting ting ting ting.

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