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Posted By: GUEST,Karl Jansson
12-Jun-11 - 06:25 PM
Thread Name: ADD/info: Swedish protest song from World War 2
Subject: Lyr Add: THE NOTORIOUS HORSE FROM TROY (Swedish)
The famous swedish vaudeville artist Karl Gerhard wrote a song highly critical of the Swedish government. Sweden allowed Germany to transport trains with soldiers to Norway, and censored people too anti-nazi. The also started to build some concentration camps, deported jews to Germany, and exported lots of stuff to Germany.
Karl Gerhard sung this song, and the prime minister phoned him personally. According to the prime minster, Karl Gerhard was not allowed to sing the song, because it had upset "them", as he called it. A ban was issued, and the song prohibited. It is very famous in Sweden, and I tried to tranlate it to english. Certainly, lots have been lost in the translation, but at least, a little grasp of it may be felt.
What do you all think of this, the song and the story around it?
THE NOTORIOUS HORSE FROM TROY
Everything recurs, and out of the times' dregs and moulds a frightening phantom appears Even Greece itself had their Wandervögels brought up in Sparta and Rome
From the shadows of centuries, and out of the dust of millenniums a mysterious ghost in the present time emerges.
It's the notorious horse from Troy modernized to the fifth column The Major Quisling is nothing but a parrot, imitating for all that he thinks he is worth
Visibly, we are we only peaceful lads with a greek shaving-brush in every hat but in a flash we may pull out our bows and storm Troy from inside by night Because the Europe that loudly is shouting, that might is right, has now got their symbol It's the notorious horse from Troy once again playing its old heroic part...
Among the wild horses that have galloped on Mrs. Clio's tilt-yards is it the Trojan Horse that's been less embarrassed by lifting its tail here and there In the horse ring of world the politicians stand as stupid Augusts in a parading line -- Hurray!
It's the notorious horse from Troy that got out from the stable of history in the riders' entrance-way the statesmen may moan and some have sugar in their pockets, just if the horse may be possible to tame It's highly neutral politics We Swedes associate with him in concord he is now running in regular traffic (note: German troops transported by Swedish Trains to Norway)
In some newspapers they say "Oh well", "we support the right... but preferably the right HORSE" "and for the notorious horse from Troy" "the odds of today are undeniably best"
Where Achilles found the terrain Lavre the horse bolted in with great success Cause he started to yearn for L'Havre (note: Havre also means Oats in Swedish...) before he was prepared for the Musée With the fifth leg the horse sat of, if I haven't been misinterpreting the greeks' Iliad
So by the notorious horse from Troy Marshal Foch's old wagon was pulled to Berlin by foot the leader was walking on the Avenue de'L Opera and came to the Hôtel des Invalides He said good day to Napoleon Bonaparte who was said to be turning in his sarcophagus asking "Are Monsieur going to go rubiconning?" "and walk on the water? I never managed to do that..." And Adolf answered "Well, without joking..." "it's not me who's been taking this village" "It's the notorious horse from Troy," "now quenching its thirst in Vichy."
During the days of Gustaf Adolf and King Carol the Swedes were fighting in fire and cold the Kingdom of the Sweden was rules by its own laws and a lion was seen on its shield A hedgehog has now become he symbol of our land but I know one more true and appropriate today
It's the notorious horse from Troy by democrats saddled and shoed a gathering-jade for palace and hovel with huge blinders, allowed to be stared at
Our old lion was quickly made retired when the emergency waring "Hoarse Frederik" sounded for the first time it was to a sheep waved by Bagge (Note: A name also meaning Ram) and by Rutger it could essen, pour nut
But hasn't the thought soon arisen, in everyone, both poor and tycoon that it is the notorious horse from Troy that all the time has been called "MEIN KAMPF"