That's a pretty, but very melancholic song. It suddenly made me think of the suicide rates in the Scandinavian countries, despite its beauty.
That's a pretty, but very melancholic song. It suddenly made me think of the suicide rates in the Scandinavian countries, despite its beauty.
Well, it gets even worse if you know the lyrics.
This is a fast translation of the first verse:
Little Carl sweet sleep in peace!
There will be more than enough time for waking up.
time to see our evil time (epoch)
and her crazy taste.
The world is an island of sorrow;
just when you are breathing good
you are going to die and become dust.
Thank you for the translation. I feel much better now 8-).
You're messing with us :-) right? If not, for all the little Carls in the world
source: tenor.com
'fraid not... But little Carl found some consecration... I mean desecration... no, consolation! in his guitar and formed a band with his friends. So now he is enjoying the healing energy of music!
If one buys the CD, does it come with a noose ;-)
I don't know if you are familiar with this, but it was a very popular national radio program in America from Minnesota, where many of the people are descendants of Scandinavians.
It's actually pretty humorous -- just hearing an American singing in Norwegian is funny enough, but it is about the Norwegian bachelor farmers
:- )
You only get a noose in the deluxe cd pack. In the plain version it's a moose.
I read once that the Scandinavians that emigrated to the US almost all went to Minnesota, Michigan and Wisconsin (and the neighbourhood states), and it sounds like the Norwegian bachelor farmers have not changed one bit in spite of the relocation. The food is slightly different, and the beers seem to be easier available though.
What a storyteller! I instantly knew the song. It is a Danish cabaret song that was popular in the other Nordic countries. It's a sentimantal sailors song.
Wow, that's amazing someone preserved that bit of history on YouTube. BTW, that radio show was a beloved fixture in America, there are books about the fictional town, and hundreds of hours of radio shows online -- the characters described in them have become real in people's minds.
It's especially "gemütlich" to listen to them on dark cold winter days, must be the Scandinavian influence.
Sadly, the storyteller, also a beloved figure, had his career and reputation ruined this year as part of the "me-too" movement. I don't remember the exact details, but after a show he hugged a fellow cast member and during the embrace his hand touched her bare back. A decades long career went up in smoke.
We'll at least he didn't commit suicide like the theatre man in Sweden who was later completely rehabilitated. The Swedish press is really crazy these days. They accuse people without having even the slightest prof. Now the guns have finally rotated towards the newspaperswhich is completely justified.
BTW - I am listening to Ringström and it is fun that he calls us xenophobic when 15-20% in both countries vote for national conservative and anti-muslim parties. The only difference is, I think, that the Swedes do not discuss it... yet.
That's terrible about the suicide, I hadn't heard about that. The West has absolutely gone nuts. Europe xenophobic? Wake me up when something like this takes place ;-)
