Old Hanoi Lyrics - Hearts In Mind - Griffith Nanci

(Nanci Griffith) 

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 

They've 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 

They've flown away 

(chorus) In the words of Graham Greene 

Like the Quiet American 

Searching these sacred streets 

For old Hanoi 

In all of these sacred things 

That I've been blessed in life to see 

I believe I'm in someone's 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 

They've flown away 

(chorus) 

Old Hanoi? searching for Indochine 

Old Hanoi? cherchant l' Indochine 

In old Hanoi 

In old Hanoi