I learned this jolly little song from a 10-inch LP, on red vinyl, sung by Carl Sandburg, the poet and folksong aficionado.

I usually sing it in tandem with another Scandinavian-dialect song from childhood, which starts out,

"It's gonna be a long, hard vinter
And vat vill de birdies do den, d' pyur tings?
Dey'll fly in d' barn, yust to keep demselfs varm,
And pyut deir head under deir vings, d' pyur tings!"

I THINK this is in the DT. In fact I THINK I submitted it. Whether it has made it into the DT yet, I don't know, because the posters are way overloaded. I'll search and see whether it's there or I have submitted it, and if not I'll post it.

Dave Oesterreich