2009-07-08

Music from Trafalgar Square

Tonight 9.00 Sw. time is an event at Trafalgar Square, it can be heard on www.oneandother.co.uk .they play a song with the Sw. folkmusic group Norrlåtar. It is Last letter from Liikavaara-Frans, a famous song by a famous drunk from Gällivare who used to sing his own funny songs for food or money. e spent his last 25 years at a mental hospital after he had stolen a bike. My aunt lived there when I was a boy and used to come to the Summerhouse in Easter with reindeerbones and made a soup of it. She also used to sing Frans' songs with the right dialect.
"När långt i söter jag sitta inne, då komma Gällivare i mitt sinne
Prukkeriet jag ej klömma kan, Karhakka-torget, voj Kaanans land"
The song is about all his friends and enemies and what will happen when he dies.
We had people with alcoholproblems an funny behaviour in my village too, I'll come back to that later.

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