This is a list of songs concerning, revolving around, or directly referring to the Vietnam War, or to the Vietnam War's after-effects. For a more complete listing see "Vietnam on Record",[1] and the Vietnam War Song Project.[2]
"An American Draft Dodger in Thunder Bay" by Sam Roberts
"Anh hùng đâu phải cứ mày râu" – Vũ Trọng Hối (about women who fight against the US army and the ARVN)
"Anh phi công ơi!" – Xuân Giao (a children's song about communist airmen protecting Vietnam)
"Anh Quân Bưu Vui Tính" – Đàm Thanh (about communist military postal men)
"Anh lái xe đường dây" – Nguyễn Hữu Tuấn (about the couragement of communist transport driver driving on ropes to supply for communist troops)
"Anh vẫn hành quân" – Huy Du (about communist troops still marching towards the battlefields for the national reunification despite attacks and bombardment from the US army and the ARVN)
"Another Christmas Without My Son" by Reverend Oris Mays
"Bà Mẹ Phù Sa" (all you need is love) Phạm Duy [about a peasant woman who hides a government agent when she sees a Vietcong, and in turn hides the Vietcong when she sees a government platoon coming.]
"Cho Một Người Vừa Nằm Xuống" (For a Person Just Fallen Down) by Trịnh Công Sơn [dedicated to Lưu Kim Cương, a friend of the author who died in battle. Who is a Republic of Vietnam Air Force pilot.]
"Christmas in Vietnam" by Johnny and Jon
"Chuyện hai người lính" (Story about two soldiers) by Phạm Duy [1968, about two soldiers on different front lines who "kill each other because of love of Vietnam"]
"Clean Cut Kid" by Bob Dylan (tells how a normal American boy is changed to a fierce fighting boy by the use of drugs, pills, and alcohol)
"Đồng Đội ơi" (My companion!) by Nguyễn Giang (music) and Trương Vĩnh Tuấn (lyrics) (expressing the sentiment of communist veterans and soldiers to their sacrificed companions)
"Đợi Có Một Ngày" (Wait Until the Day) by Trịnh Công Sơn (expressing the author's desire for peace)
"The Knife" by Genesis (Peter Gabriel, influenced by a book on Gandhi, "wanted to try [to] show how all violent revolutions inevitably end up with a dictator in power")[6]
"Ngày Mai Chúng Mình Ra Trận" – Nhạc: Hoài Tố Hạnh, lời: Trần Đăng Khoa (nhà thơ) (about the feeling, believes in victory and the national reunification of Vietnamese communist youth, who was to join the war)
"The Nang, the Front, the Bush and the Shit" by El-P
"Near Thái Nguyên Bridge" by Alexander Gusev
"Như có Bác Hồ trong ngày vui đại thắng" (Uncle Ho likely was Here On the Day of Victory) by Phạm Tuyên (about the feelings that Ho Chi Minh being appear on the national reunification day).
"Nối Vòng Tay Lớn" (Joining Hands) by Trịnh Công Sơn [expresses the author's wish for peace and national solidarity. This song was played on the radio after the communist forces took over Saigon's radio station during the Fall of Saigon.]
"Ta là chiến sĩ Giải Phóng quân" – Văn Lưu và Triều Dâng (about the pride of being the PLAF troops fighting against the US and the Republic of Vietnam)
"Trường Sơn Đông – Trường Sơn Tây" by Hoàng Hiệp [from a poem by Phạm Tiến Duật, about the love and the life of communist troops on the Ho Chi Minh trail.]
"The Road of Life from Hanoi" by unknown Soviet military transportation officer
"Thề quyết bảo vệ Tổ quốc" (Swear to defend the country) – Huy Du (Chinese version "誓死保卫祖国" also available in the late 1960s)
"Việt Nam Ơi! Mùa Xuân Đến Rồi" – Huy Du (about the national reunification)
"Vết chân tròn trên cát" – Trần Tiến (about a communist handicap veteran, who was a teacher before and after the war, he usually told his students about the happiness of the national reunification, the couragement and the sacrifice of communist troops)
"Vì nhân dân quên mình" – Doãn Quang Khải (about the sacrifice for Vietnamese of communist troops)
"Yours Is No Disgrace" by Yes (Anderson has stated that the theme of the song was recognition that the kids fighting the war had no choice but to fight and that the war wasn't their fault)[13]