Gentle, soothing, and lyrical lullabies not only help children sleep soundly but also serve as a sacred bond connecting mother and child. As your child listens to the warmth and sweet melody of your voice, they will gradually drift off to sleep.
Furthermore, according to scientists, lulling your child to sleep is also a way for mothers to stimulate their intelligence and physical development, helping children develop language, psychological and motor reflexes better than children who are not lulled.
Below is a collection of the best lullabies from three regions of Vietnam to help mothers cherish and soothe their children to sleep completely.
1. Father’s love is like Mount Thai Son
Mother’s love is like water flowing from the source
My child, if you want to become a good person
Listen carefully to the words of your parents
With all your heart, worship your mother and respect your father
To fulfill filial piety is the way of a child
Father’s love is like Mount Thai Son
Mother’s love is like the water in the East Sea
The mountains are high, the sea is vast
The nine characters of Cu Lao, the nine characters of Cu Lao, remember, my child
2. Climbing the grapefruit tree to pick flowers
Stepping down to the eggplant garden, picking spring buds
Spring buds bloom blue-green
You’re getting married, I regret it so much
Three coins for a piece of spicy betel
Why didn’t you ask when you were still single?
Now you have a husband
Like a bird in a cage, like a fish caught on a hook
A fish caught on a hook, who knows how to remove it?
A bird in a cage, how can it breathe…
3. Ah oh
Stork, you go foraging at night
Perching on a soft branch, falling into the pond
Ah oh
Grandpa, oh Grandpa, please save me
I have a heart, please cook bamboo shoots for me
Ah oh
If you cook, cook with clear water
Don’t cook with murky water, it hurts the baby stork’s heart
4. The stork goes to welcome the rain
Darkness all around, who will bring the stork home?
The stork returns to visit the familiar village
Visits father, visits mother, the stork returns to visit brother.
5. Bờm had a palm-leaf fan
The rich man offered to trade three cows and nine buffaloes
Bờm said, Bờm won’t take the buffaloes
The rich man offered to trade a deep pond with carp
Bờm said, Bờm won’t take the carp
The rich man offered to trade a raft of ironwood
Bờm said, Bờm won’t take the ironwood
The rich man offered to trade a pair of tortoiseshell birds
Bờm said, Bờm won’t take the bait
The rich man offered to trade for sticky rice, Bờm laughed
6. Uncle Cuội sits at the base of the banyan tree,
Letting the buffalo eat the rice, calling “Father, oh Father!”
Father is still cutting grass in the sky
Mother is still riding a horse to invite officials
7. Stork, heron, egret
Why are you trampling on the rice in my field, oh stork?
No, no, I’m standing on the bank
The mother and child heron blame me
Ah oh..
8. Stork, stork flies down, down, flies down
Flies slowly from the city gate,
Flies out, out to the rice field
Love’s melody, is the melody of love
Love’s fate, oh love’s fate,
Do you remember, do you remember?
Do you know, do you know?
9. The stork is a strange stork
Eats at aunt’s house, drinks water at cousin’s house
At night it snores loudly
Husband loves, husband says snore to make the house happy
Goes to the market, often eats snacks
Husband loves, husband says come home to save rice
10. The stork is a singing stork
Catch it, make meat, divide it into three parts
The lean part is for the husband
The bone for the mother to gnaw, the heart for the child
11. Missing someone, I cry silently
Two streams of tears pouring like rain
Missing someone, I’m absent-minded and dazed
Missing someone, who misses whom now?
12. My dear, please don’t worry
Even if my hair is tangled in a hundred knots, I’ll quickly untangle it
Tangled silk I can untangle smoothly
For tangled hair there’s a comb, for a tangled heart there’s me
13. In love, but unable to be together
The pig is left hungry, the areca cluster is left to age
When will we be reunited?
The pig will be fat again, the aged areca will be delicious again
14. Lull the baby to sleep, to ripen
So mother can go to the market to buy lime for betel
Buy lime at Quán Market, Cầu Market
Buy areca at Nam Phổ, buy betel at Dinh Market
Dinh Market sells boys’ clothes
Triều Sơn sells hats, Mậu Tài sells needles
15. Ah ah ah oh.
Summer noon by the swaying hammock.
Mother lulls you to sleep oh, oh in the midday sun’s round shadow. Ah ah ah oh .
Mother’s grace is heavy, I remember Father’s work, Father and Mother’s grace.
16. Ah oh…
Mother, please don’t marry me far away
Birds sing, monkeys howl, how will I know where Mother’s house is?
Ah oh…
Every afternoon, I stand at the back gate
Looking back at my mother’s homeland, my heart aches for nine afternoons
17. Father’s work, Mother’s virtue, high and thick
Caring for me in the womb for nine months
Raising me with hardship until now
As I grow up, I must, I must know how to honor both of you
18. Summer noon by the swaying mat
Mother lulls you to sleep, mother lulls you to sleep in the midday sun
Who can easily count the feathers of a bird?
Who would dare to count, who would dare to count the months and days of raising a child?
19. To be a man, standing in this world
Be worthy, be worthy of our lineage
Shouldering the burden of the country
Only by showing your face, only by showing your face, are you a true man.
20. My child, sleep soundly
Let Mother finish shoveling, let Mother finish shoveling the coal full
Sleep, my child, sleep
Tomorrow when you grow up, tomorrow when you grow up, you’ll be a good student
21. Who goes back, tell my friends at the source
Send down young jackfruit, send up flying fish
The mouse squeaks in the chest
Be careful when you walk, don’t bump into the bed, Mother will scold
When far, even the alley seems far
When near Vĩnh Điện, when near Vĩnh Điện, La Qua is also near
22. A dry tree doesn’t easily sprout
Parents are not easy to have in life
How old is the country to be old?
Because of frost and snow, because of frost and snow, it turns gray
23. Carrying heavy, giving birth in pain, carrying for nine months
Mother’s love is as vast as the sky, the river runs dry(?) raising a child
Hungry for rice, ragged clothes, Mother’s heart withers
When the child is full and warm, Mother’s heart is still not completely at ease
24. Enduring bitterness, swallowing pain, pity Mother’s heart
Mother lies on the wet side, you roll on the dry side
When you eat and sleep, Mother doesn’t worry
When the weather changes, with wind and rain, Mother is not at peace
25. Which mountain is as high as Sơn Thái mountain?
Which love is as heavy as the love between father and child?
Even if separated by lands and waters
Even if separated by distance, Mother’s heart still loves and misses you
26. Wisdom comes from the warmth of fathers and grandfathers
To succeed, remember your ancestors
A child’s duty should not be neglected
Must show respect, must show respect and worship solemnly
27. What’s more delicious than rice with fish?
Who loves more than a mother loves her child?
When will the carp transform into a dragon?
To repay parents’ grace, to repay parents’ grace for carrying me in the past
28. Autumn wind.. Mother lulls you to sleep..
Five watches.. five watches.. awake for five..
Oh my dear, oh my love..
I miss you.. I miss you..
29. Hush hush my child
Sleep sleep my child
Lullaby and goodnight.. lullaby and goodnight..
Lullaby and goodnight.. lullaby and..
30. When spring comes.. in the warm breeze..
Father comes home.. father comes home.. child holds father’s hand..
Oh my love.. oh my dear..
I miss you.. I miss you..
31. Hush hush my child
Sleep sleep my child
Lullaby and goodnight.. lullaby and goodnight..
Lullaby and goodnight.. lullaby and..
32. A man’s ambition.. passionately defending the country..
How could you.. how could you.. blame someone’s love..
Oh my dear, oh my love..
I miss you.. I miss you..
33. Lullaby,…
My sibling craves milk, sucks on their hand
Whoever gave them steel to suck, we are grateful
Lullaby,…
Mother, please don’t hit me, it hurts
Let me catch fish, pick vegetables for you.
Lullaby,…
Mom, please don’t hit me, it hurts
Let me sing cải lương, play đào for you.
Lullaby,…
Mother, please don’t hit me all the time
Let me catch snails, pick mangoes for you to eat.
Lullaby,…
If the goby fish swings
The prawn sings cải lương, the mackerel plays the drum.
Lullaby,…
If, if, if mulberry
If this, if that, if the buffalo goes into the barn.
Lullaby…
If the bridge is made of planks with nails…
The bamboo bridge is rickety and difficult to cross…
Lullaby…
Difficult to cross, Mother leads me across…
I go to school, Mother goes to the school of life.
34. The wind blows the banana trees behind the house…
He’s infatuated with his mistress, abandoning his children…
Lullaby… The children, carrying them in my arms…
Hand in hand with my mother-in-law, carrying a basket of cotton on my head.
35. Lullaby… Swallows return to the North Sea, oh swallows…
When will the swallows return, lest the én wait and hope.
Lullaby… If your love wants to end…
You sow the bad news and then you leave.
36. If the bridge is made of planks with nails
The bamboo bridge is rickety and difficult to cross
Difficult to cross, borrow a bowl to eat rice
Borrow a glass to drink wine, borrow a đàn to play
Play three notes on the đàn cò
Broken strings, broken pegs, forgetting the tune of prosperity
If I didn’t love you
Please take me to the ferry, I’ll go home
37. Saigon lights, green and red
Mỹ Tho lights, bright and dim
I come home to learn the character “nhu” (gentle)
Three autumns I’ll wait, a thousand years I’ll wait…
38. When Father is alive, his heels are red like lipstick
When Father is gone, my heels turn black
39. With Father and Mother, it’s fragrant
Without Father and Mother, it’s like a broken đàn
A broken đàn can still be turned and repaired
Child without parents, I’ll be orphaned.
40. The ant climbs the banyan tree
Climbs a stubby branch, climbs out, climbs in
The ant climbs the peach tree
Climbs a stubby branch, climbs in, climbs out
41. The stork is a foolish stork
You often hit your wife, who do you sleep with at night?????
If you hit, hit early in the morning
Don’t hit at dusk, no one will let you sleep
42. Stork, heron, egret
Why are you trampling on the rice in my field, oh stork?
No, no, I’m standing on the bank
The mother and child heron blame me
Ah oh..
43. Bống is a round Bống
Mother Bống loves Bống, Bống writes poems
Mother Bống loves Bống forever
Let Bống write poems all day
Bống is a peaceful Bống
Cooking rice, carrying water, alone, oh Bống
Guests come in, please sit and play
Let me go to the market to buy lime for betel
Betel is long gone
Lime is still waiting, build a bridge to cross
44. I challenge anyone to sit on a hammock without swaying
Lull a child without singing, row a boat without paddling
I challenge anyone to burn the duckweed pond
So I can pick up Đông Triều stones for soaking
When will the stones sprout?
The fig tree sprouts buds, the onion blossoms
When will the goby lay eggs on the banyan tree?
The flute lays eggs underwater, then I’ll take you
When the mulberry turns blue and the communal house is built
The ironwood makes a cocoon, then I’ll take you
Ah ah ah oh, ah ah ah oh…
45. The stork goes to welcome the rain
Darkness all around, who will bring the stork home?
The stork returns to the base of the fig tree
The Westerner shot the stork, crippling one leg
Early morning going to Đồng Xuân market
The new soldier asks why the stork’s leg is crippled
The stork says it perched on a bamboo stalk
The Westerner shot it, crippling one leg
46. The stork is a strange stork
Eats at aunt’s house, drinks water at cousin’s house
At night it snores loudly
Husband loves, husband says snore to make the house happy
Goes to the market, often eats snacks
Husband loves, husband says come home to save rice
The stork is a singing stork
Catch it, make meat, divide it into three parts
The lean part is for the husband
The bone for the mother to gnaw, the heart for the child
47. Carrying, carrying my husband to play
Reaching the ford, I dropped my husband
Sir, please lend me a scoop
So I can scoop the water and retrieve my husband
48. The stork goes foraging at night
Perching on a soft branch, falling into the pond
Sir, oh Sir, please save me
I have a heart, please cook me with bamboo shoots
If you cook, cook with clear water
Don’t cook with murky water, it hurts the baby stork’s heart.
49. My dear, please don’t worry
Even if my hair is tangled in a hundred knots, I’ll quickly untangle it
Tangled silk I can untangle smoothly
For tangled hair there’s a comb, for a tangled heart there’s me
50. In love, but unable to be together
The pig is left hungry, the areca cluster is left to age
When will we be reunited?
The pig will be fat again, the aged areca will be delicious again
51. Yesterday, bailing water at the communal house,
I left my shirt on the apricot blossom branch
If you have it, please give it to me
Or do you keep it as a pledge?
My shirt has a torn seam
I don’t have a wife, my old mother hasn’t sewn it
My shirt has been torn for a long time
Tomorrow I’ll ask her to sew it for me
After sewing, I’ll pay you
When you get married, I’ll help you
Help you with a basket of sticky rice
A fat pig, a jar of betel
Help you with a mat to lie on
A blanket to cover, a scarf to wear
Help you with eight coins for the engagement
Five coins for the wedding and a cluster of areca nuts
52. My child is sleepy and drowsy
Drowsy for sticky rice, millet porridge, chicken
The house only has an eggplant
How can it be enough for my child’s meal?
My child cries weakly and sadly
Cries for a bruised persimmon at the beginning of the season
Craves the ceremonial cakes at the pagoda
Craves the royal bananas offered to the king
Craves the young rice of Làng Ngang
Craves the winter melon of Làng Quài
Craves snakehead fish and sweet potato soup
Craves jackfruit fibers, craves persimmon stems
Craves the tail of the pomfret, craves the heart of the winter melon
53. Ah oh …
My sibling is sleepy and drowsy
Drowsy for sticky rice, millet porridge, chicken
Drowsy for rice cakes and bánh đa
Arrowroot, baked potatoes and millet porridge
Ah oh …
My sibling is sleepy and drowsy
The silkworm is ripe, the goat has a smell
The silkworm is ripe, let’s keep it and raise it
The goat has a smell, let me eat it.
54. Every afternoon, I stand at the West Tower
West Tower, I see a lovesick girl carrying water
Watering the parasol tree
Who makes, who makes my heart ache
Aching for the girl watering the parasol tree
Every afternoon, I look out at the distant horizon
Distant horizon, I see a flock of Ô Thước birds
Spreading their wings and flying towards the Milky Way
The birds build many bridges over the deep river
Pity the fate of the Cowherd and Weaver Girl
Every afternoon, I stand by the river
River, oh river, I see someone lovesick stirring the water
Pushing, pushing the ferry
Pity, oh pity the ferry crossing the river
Vast water flowing downstream
55. Every afternoon, I stand at the back gate
Looking towards my mother’s homeland, my heart aches for nine afternoons
Every afternoon, I miss every afternoon
Missing the gentleman with the silk scarf on his shoulder
56. If, if, if mulberry
If this, if that, if the buffalo goes into the forest
Into the forest to pick a strand of cloud
Bring it home to weave a hammock for you to go trading
Trading without loss, then profit
Buy three ounces of meat to save for you to eat..
57. Lull you, lull you to sleep soundly
So Mother can go cut banana trees on the distant hillside
Sleep, don’t cry anymore
Far in the field, Father is looking for young bamboo shoots
Hush, oh my child
Far away, Mother picks many young vegetables
Don’t cry anymore, lullaby my child ..
Source: Yeutre.vn
