time for another song

[kareina]

Months ago archinonlive and I attended a workshop for singing Swedish Folk Songs. It was much fun, but we did so many songs so quickly that I can't claim to have actually learned any of them properly. However, on the drive back from Visby this weekend he pulled out the paper from that workshop and taught me one of them:


Farmor och mormor de skulle ut och dansa
Når de kom till dansbanan var det Tantelin
Farmor kunde dansa men mormor kunde inte
Når de skulle dansa så ramla de omkull

Du som är så duktig till allting annat
Kan du inte dansa Tantelin?
Du som är så duktig till allting annat
Kan du inte dansa Tantelin?

Which means:


Grandmother (dad's mom) and grandmother (mom's mom) were going out to dance
when they came to the dance hall it was (the dance) Tantelin (that was playing)
Father's mother can dance, but mother's mother can not
when they went to dance they fell down

You who are so talented at everything else
can you not dance Tantelin?
You who are so talented at everything else
can you not dance Tantelin?

Since I learned this one in the car we don't yet have a recording of it, but I will edit this with a link to one as soon as we create it.