Off: Amaze your Swedish friends

[Johan Edlundh]

Amaze your Swedish friends with some astounding sounds!

Welcome class, to the swedish lesson #26.
Today we're going to learn the lyrics to probably the most well known
swedish drinking song. If you pronounce those english words 100% correct,
you'll just spoken a 98% correct swedish pronounced "Helan Gar" - which is
almost mandatory when drinking vodka. In the next lesson we're going to
learn the melody.

Hell and gore
Shun gop Father Allan lallan ley
Hell and gore
Shun gop Father Allan ley
For handsome in the hell and tar
An hell er in the hell and four
Hell and gore
Shun gop Father Allan ley.


You don't understand? Complete rubbish?
Doesen't matter, be just sure you'll drink the vodka in the same tempo as
the swedes. And be sure it's bottom up all the time. You'll soon understand.


The correct swedish spelling is below - I've excluded the umlauts because
you don't understand them anyway. The entusiastic student can guess where he
thinks the å, ä and ö letters will resist. I bet you will pronounce this
wrong, if you just use the rows below:

Helan gar
Sjung hopp fadderallan lallanlej
Helan gar
Sjung hopp fadderallan lej
For han som inte helan tar
Han inte heller halvan far
Helan gar
Sjung hopp fadderallan lej


sorry,
it's too early in the morning,
.joe