Let's Sing Together!!!

Indonesia has a lot of famous songs. Traditional, pop, jazz, and else. I prefer to listen pop than the other. But sometimes, I listen to traditional songs, especially when my choir has to sing that song in one event. So, let me tell all of you about one of Indonesia famous song, especially traditional song. This song is North Sumatra's traditional song, titled "Butet". Butet is a nick name for a girl in Medan. So, sometimes, my mother call me butet too, because my mother come from Sidempuan, about 6 hours from Medan.
This song is tell about a wife who left by her husband because her husband call by war. Because that condition her husband had to guerrilla, hiding from the invaders. Both of them (the wife and her daughter) took a long time to get a news about their lovely head of household..
That woman pray to God to keep her husband safe and back home immediately and hope that when her daughter grow up she can become a member of red cross then she can help other who became victims of that war. I remember, when my mother sing this song, she will cry, because this song remind her about my grandmother who had passed away. This is a famous song not only in Medan, but also in Indonesia.


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