Short rhetorical song

I was walking home with Skyman the other day, and this popped up when we were about to say good bye:

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Four one-verse songs

Here are some (Swedish) one-verse songs that I feel are too short to merit their own entries.

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Song: “Ett annat sätt att se”

The Swedish Government is filled with people who hate mere workers and the unemployed. For instance, the Brilliant Queen of Being an Arse, Maud Olofsson actually said that a good way of getting more young people into the working places was to allow companies to give them only half the normal salary. This way, a company could hire TWO people for the same price as ONE, which would halve the unemployment of young people. Isn’t that great? In other news, food will still be full price, as will rents, public transport, hospital and dental care, petrol, clothes, furniture, medicine and so on.

MAUD OLOFSSON YOU ARE AN ARSE AND YOUR PARTY IS THE ARSE PARTY OF SWEDEN.

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“Gråt Allians av Vårt Hat”

Leo is, in my opinion, fantastic at writing protest songs, and those who know me know that I am more than willing to sing them, but neither of us has any competence in playing instruments or recording beyond the basics of  “press this key to make a sound/begin recording”. These comrades do:

It almost makes me feel hope about a decent time after the upcoming election. Unite! — Fight the Good Fight!

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The Battalion of the World

This song is sung to the tune of “Das Batallion Edgar André” (also known as “Die Freiheit ist unser Gefährte”), as sung by Ernst Busch. I sadly haven’t been bothered to actually look and see if there’s a version of this song on YouTube or so, but there may be; (there is! /skymandr) otherwise, I am sure it can be downloaded or even bought somewhere. It was inspired by a misunderstanding of the original German lyrics: I believed they sang “Das Battalion das ganzen Erde” (“The Batallion of the Entire World”), but it was actually something else, and I thought it was a wasted opportunity to use a phrase that so succinctly sums up what the international brigades were, in a way. Of course, not the whole world, as the conservatives of the day were — and seemingly still are! — content with letting the extreme right do their thing, as long as they don’t kick up too much dust during election campaigns.

Unfortunately, the literal translation of my misunderstanding doesn’t really fit the melody, so I had to restructure it a bit… Notice that the last two lines of the refrain should be sung twice.

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Röda Björn

A short song that I wrote ages ago about Bamse, the world’s friendliest and strongest bear. At one point, he was accused of being a communist, since he is very friendly and egalitarian, and always on the side of he oppressed. This was meant as an insult by whoever said it, but since I regard being associated with the left rather as the hallmark of goodness and solidaritarianism, even though nowadays I wouldn’t call myself a communist (at least not without a prefix), I composed this song to present Bamse as a socialist ideal. Sort of.

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