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Kom hit och hör på melodin jag vevar kärleksfull och säll. En sjöman ung, en ung sjöman på Djurgårn gick en söndagskväll. Där mötte han en flicka skön och fin, och en flicka så skön är en sjömans lön för alla stormars stön på böljan kall och grön. De gingo vill i vårens skog på sjömäns och på flickors vis och satte sig bland gröna blad så ljuvligt som i paradis, och han bad och han fick och han tog, som en sjöman kan be och en flicka kan ge med ack och tack och suck och salta tårars ve. Och det är visan för i fjol, och det är visan för i år, och det är visan som vi fått, så länge denna världen står i himmelsblått och rosenrött och sol och en flicka så grann och en ung sjöman i Djurgårns sälla lundar träffa på varann. Men frågas 'vem som diktat har den sköna visans melodi så säger jag och ljuger ej, att det är han som, fideli och fidelej, och fideli, nu positivet drar om en flicka så nätt och en sjöman lätt på våg och falsk i håg som sjömäns falska sätt.
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Text Authorship:
- by Bo Bergman (1869 - 1967) [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Wilhelm Peterson-Berger (1867 - 1942), "Positivvisa", 1932 [ voice and piano ], from 2 Romantiska visor = 2 Romantic Songs, no. 2, Stockholm: Abr. Lundquists Musikförlag [sung text not yet checked]
- by Wilhelm (Vilhelm) Eugen Stenhammar (1871 - 1927), "En positivvisa", op. 38 no. 4 (1918) [ voice and piano or orchestra ], from Fyra Stockholmsdikter av Bo Bergman, no. 4 [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Marc Moreau) , "A Barrel-Organ Song", copyright © 2005, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Marc Moreau) , "Une chanson d'orgue de barbarie", copyright © 2005, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 38
Word count: 196
Come here and listen to the melody I'm weaving with love and bliss. A young sailor, a young sailor went to the Zoo on a sunday evening. There he met a beautiful nice girl, and such a beautiful girl is a sailor's reward for the groan of all tempests on the cold green waves. They went astray in the vernal forest as sailors and girls do and sat down among green leaves as delightful as in paradise, and he begged and he got and he took, as a sailor can beg and a girl can give with ah's and thanks and sighs and the woe of salted tears. And this is the song for last year, and this is the song for this year, and this is the song that we will get, as long as this world stands in the blue sky, and the red colour of roses and the sun, and such a gorgeous girl and a young sailor in the blissful thickets of the Zoo will meet each other. But if someone asks who has composed the melody of this beautiful song, I say without a lie that it's him who, falala and falalay, and falali, is twirling the barrel-organ about such a pretty girl and a sailor gone by the sea and untrue in his mind like sailors' untrue nature.
Text Authorship:
- Translation from Swedish (Svenska) to English copyright © 2005 by Marc Moreau, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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Based on:
- a text in Swedish (Svenska) by Bo Bergman (1869 - 1967)
This text was added to the website: 2005-06-09
Line count: 38
Word count: 224