đừng tuyệt vọng (Despair not, dear me) Tôi ru em ngủ (I sing you to sleep) Tôi sẽ đi thăm (I shall visit) Tôi sẽ nhớ (I shall remember) Tôi tìm tôi / Tôi là ai? (I search for myself / Who am I?) Trong nỗi đau tình cờ Tự tình khúc Từng ngày qua (Everyday through) Tuổi đá buồn (Stone's age of despair) Tuổi đời mênh mông Tuổi trẻ Việt Nam (Vietnamese Youths) Tưởng rằng đã quên (Thought that I have forgotten) Ướt mi ("Misty eyes" or "Tearing lashes") Vẫn có em bên đời (I still have you in my life) Vẫn nhớ cuộc đời Vàng phai trước ngõ Về trong suối nguồn (Back to the fountainhead) Về thăm mái trường xưa (Revisiting the old school) Vết lăn trầm Vì tôi cần thấy em yêu đời Vườn xưa (Garden of the past) Xa dấu mặt trời (Far from the sun) Xanh lòng phai tàn Xin cho tôi (Please give me) Xin hãy dừng tay (Please stop) Xin mặt trời ngủ yên (Please let the sun sleep) Xin trả nợ người Yêu dấu tan theo (Fading love) Songs about the Vietnam War In the song "Mother's Legacy" (Gia tài của mẹ), Trinh sings about the Vietnamese experience of the Vietnam War: He laments that the 1,000 years of Vietnam's subjugation to Chinese imperial rule, the 100 years of subjugation to French colonial rule, and the ongoing civil war, together have left a sad legacy of graveyards, parched fields and burning houses. He urges the children of Vietnam to remain true to their Vietnamese identity and overcome the dividing hatred, put an end to internecine fighting and the destruction of the country. In the song "Song about the Corpses of People" ("Hát trên những xác người"), written in the aftermath of the Huế Massacre, Trinh sings about the corpses strewn around the city, in the river, on the roads, on the rooftops, even on the porches of the pagodas. The corpses, each one of which he regards as the body of a sibling, will nourish the farmland. A rock music concert event titled Nối Vòng Tay Lớn ("The Great Circle of Vietnam"); the name of a popular patriotic anti-war song by Trịnh Công Sơn, was officially promoted and held in Hồ Chí Minh City ostensibly as a memorial to Trịnh, and featuring various Vietnamese rock bands and artists, had officially taken