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อเมริกันอันตราย [Dangerous American]

Caravan / คาราวาน
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Caravan / คาราวาน

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Amerikạn ạntarāy
[1976]
Album / Albumi: อเมริกันอันตราย
["Dangerous American" / "Americano pericoloso" /
"Américain dangereux"]

amerikanantarai


Le protest song in Thailandia sono note come Phleng phuea chiwit (เพลงเพื่อชีวิต), che significa "canzoni per la vita", un genere nato negli anni '70 per dare voce alla classe operaia e alle lotte democratiche. In genere, sono canzoni folk rock che mostrano grandi influenze della musica occidentale contemporanea, folk e rock. Le tematiche di protesta sono perlopiù incentrate sulle difficoltà della classe operaia, a favore di un sistema politico democratico. Le phleng phuea chiwit ebbero il loro periodo d’oro negli anni 1970, come parte di più vasti movimenti di “arte per la vita” e di “letteratura per la vita”. Nei successivi anni 1980 le tematiche delle phleng phuea chiwit si spostarono più sui problemi sociali, sulla povertà e sulla ruralità.

Surachai "Nga" Jantimathawn.
Surachai "Nga" Jantimathawn.
Tra i gruppi più significativi del primo periodo delle phleng phuea chiwit devono essere senz’altro annoverati i Caravan (in thailandese: คาราวาน, traslitterato [kharawan]). I Caravan si formarono nel 1973 in seguito al Movimento per la Democrazia, una serie di dimostrazioni e lotte studentesche iniziate già nel 1968 che portarono alla rivolta del 14 ottobre 1973 che causò il rovesciamento del dittatore anticomunista Thanom Kittikachorn e il suo esilio. Kittikachorn riuscì però a tornare dall’esilio nel 1976 grazie al decisivo aiuto americano: il suo ritorno scatenò violente dimostrazioni di protesta culminate nel massacro del 6 ottobre 1976 e in un susseguente colpo di stato militare (da notare che Kittikachorn era tornato dall’esilio in veste di “monaco buddhista”). Fu in quest’ambito che fu composta questa canzone dai forti sentimenti antiamericani.

La canzone è stata scritta dal fondatore e leader dei Caravan, Surachai “Nga” Jantimathawn; fa parte dell’album eponimo, Amerikan antarai, pubblicato nel medesimo anno. I Caravan avevano pubblicato nel 1975 il loro primo album, “Songs for Life”, grazie alla Paredon Records di Smithsonian Folkways. Sono ancora in attività (a “Nha” Jantimathawn si affianca Thongkran Thana, mentre altri membri del passato sono stati Wirasak Sunthawnni, morto nel 2021, e Mongkhon Uthok, morto nel 2018). Con i Caravan si è esibito spesso anche Phongthep Kradonchamnan, a sua volta esponente autonomo di punta delphleng phuea chiwit.
มาพวกเราร่วมเดินฟันฝ่า
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เมืองไทยเป็นของเรา
ทำไมให้เขาเข้ามา
จักรวรรดิ์อเมริกา
อเมริกามันมาย่ำยี

เลือดไทยต้องไหลริน
แผ่นดินถูกครอบครอง
ทำลายบ้านพี่เมืองน้อง
ล้มตายก่ายกอง
เลือดนองแผ่นดิน

มาพวกเราร่วมเดินฟันฝ่า
ก้าวไปกับประชา
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เมืองไทยเป็นของเรา
ทำไมให้เขาเข้ามา
จักรวรรดิ์อเมริกา
อเมริกามันมาย่ำยี

เลือดไทยต้องไหลริน
แผ่นดินถูกครอบครอง
ทำลายบ้านพี่เมือง
น้องล้มตายก่ายกอง
เลือดนองแผ่นดิน

มาพวกเราร่วมเดินฟันฝ่า
ก้าวไปกับประชา
ด้วยศรัทธายิ่งใหญ่

เมืองไทยเป็นของไทย
ออกไปไม่ใช่ของมัน
จักรวรรดิ์อเมริกันมั
นเที่ยวรุกราน
ไม่ว่าบ้านเมืองใคร

แบ่งแยกแล้วทำลาย
นาทรายนาหินกอง
อยู่กินกันอย่างพี่น้อง
ไอ้ผู้ปกครองมันมาจุดไฟ

มาพวกเราร่วมเดินฟันฝ่า
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รวมกันเถิดผองเรา
เผ่าพันธุ์เพื่อนผองไทย
อเมริกันมันต้องออกไป
อธิปไตยจึงจะสมบูรณ์ เอ้อ

มาพวกเราร่วมเดินฟันฝ่า
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มาพวกเราร่วมเดินฟันฝ่า
ก้าวไปกับประชา
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Contributed by L'Anonimo Toscano del XXI Secolo - 2026/9/22 - 08:44



English translation / Traduzione inglese / Traduction anglaise / Englanninkielinen käännös:
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Dangerous American

Come, brothers, march and fight our way,
Step forward with the people,
With towering faith to guide our way.

This Thai land is ours,
Why should we open up the door?
The American Empire
Tramples, crushes, bleeds.

Thai blood spills from foreign deeds,
Our land occupied and destroyed,
Our neighbors ruined and annulled,
Blood runs red
Where their kin bled.

Come, brothers, march and fight our way,
Step forward with the people,
With towering faith to guide our way.

This Thai land is Thai,
Get out, it’s not for yours to claim,
The American empire
Roam and invade where they please.

They divide and then conquer,
Fields of sand, of stone, of earth.
We lived brother, side by side,
Till rulers struck
The match inside.

Come, brothers, march and fight our way,
Step forward with the people,
With towering faith to guide our way.

Let’s unite us all,
Members of all Thai kin,
America must leave this land,
Only then is sovereignty whole again.

Come, brothers, march and fight our way,
Step forward with the people,
With towering faith to guide our way.

Come, brothers, march and fight our way,
Step forward with the people,
With towering faith to guide our way.

2026/9/22 - 15:34



Traduzione italiana (dalla traduzione inglese) / Italian translation (from the English translation) / Traduction italienne (d'après la traduction anglaise) / Italiankielinen käännös (englanninkielisestä käännöksestä):
Riccardo Venturi, 23-9-2026 09:36

Caravan (2006) at anti-Thaksin demonstrating concert
Caravan (2006) at anti-Thaksin demonstrating concert
L'Amerikano è pericoloso

Su, fratelli, marciate e fatevi strada lottando
Avanzate assieme al popolo
Con una fede incrollabile a guidarci.

Questa terra thailandese ci appartiene,
Perché dovremmo spalancare la porta?
L’impero americano
Calpesta, schiaccia, sanguina.

Sangue thailandese scorre per causa straniera,
La nostra terra è occupata e distrutta.
I nostri vicini sono rovinati e annientati,
Rosso scorre il sangue
Dove la loro razza ha scorso sangue.

Su, fratelli, marciate e fatevi strada lottando
Avanzate assieme al popolo
Con una fede incrollabile a guidarci.

Questa terra thailandese è del popolo Thai,
Andatevene via, non potete pretendere sia vostra,
L’impero americano
Va in giro a invadere dovunque gli garba.

Dividono e poi conquistano
Distese di sabbia, di pietra, di terra.
Abbiamo vissuto come fratelli, fianco a fianco,
Finché i tiranni non hanno acceso
La miccia che c’era dentro.

Su, fratelli, marciate e fatevi strada lottando
Avanzate assieme al popolo
Con una fede incrollabile a guidarci.

Uniamoci tutti,
Membri di tutta la stirpe thailandese,
L’America deve andarsene da questa terra
E solo allora la sovranità sarà di nuovo completa.

Su, fratelli, marciate e fatevi strada lottando
Avanzate assieme al popolo
Con una fede incrollabile a guidarci.

Su, fratelli, marciate e fatevi strada lottando
Avanzate assieme al popolo
Con una fede incrollabile a guidarci.

2026/9/23 - 09:38




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