Old Hanoi Lyrics

Where are all the Satchel Boys

Selling books outside the Metripole?

Books to read in English

Books of light and sorrows

Of this foreign land

They are gone

Theyve flown away

Where are all the cyclos

With their drivers pedaling grace?

Crowded out by motorbike

Confined to lesser space

In old Hanoi

They grew wings

Theyve flown away

(chorus)

In the words of Graham Greene

Like the Quiet American

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For old Hanoi

In all of these sacred things

That Ive been blessed in life to see

I believe Im in someones dream

In history

Where is the eloquence

Of the ladies on their bicycles?

Dressed in their au dias

In the lotus flowered nights

Of Indochine

They rode to progress

Theyve flown away

(chorus)

Old Hanoisearching for Indochine

Old Hanoicherchant l Indochine

In old Hanoi

In old Hanoi