The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #46361   Message #1764825
Posted By: GUEST,mg
20-Jun-06 - 01:57 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Oleanna (Ditmar Meidel, Norway, 1853)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Oleanna as by the Gateway Singers
That to me is a perfect example of an absolutely wonderful song with wonderful tune with the most abomidable translation of lyrics that I can think of. There have to be better translations...it is a song that should be sung but I can't stomach the lyrics..except in Oleanna I've been told all the streets are paved with gold..hardly original but at least the accent is in the right place. And if anyone wants to know my opinion on accents in the wrong place, no better song to start with than this one. So please someone fix it so we can sing it. Also please find the original Norwegian words that were an old Norwegian fishing song..perhaps that one should be translated instead or song in Norwegian.   mg