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Thread #21946   Message #924228
Posted By: masato sakurai
02-Apr-03 - 01:54 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Nikolina (trad. Swedish song)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Nikolina ...English/Swedish (pref. both)
The lyrics transcibed in the LP notes are virtually the same except that ja' in the lines is written jag throughout and that the first two lines of the translation are "When you're in love you're in an awful torture / Whoever tried it will not diagree." I'll quote part of the notes below:
This song came from Sweden around the turn of the century, brought to America by the famous entertainer Hjalmar Peterson (1886-1960), better known as Olle i Skratthult, or Olle from Laughtrsville. Olle recorded it at least three times and these recordings are reputed to have sold around 100,000 copies in a 20-year period, during which Olle toured the Swedish settlements of the United States.