Svamp!

[kareina]

Choir this semester is even more fun than usual. Our director has decided to spice things up by adding in a fair few simple songs wherein the parts are mixed "groups" rather than the traditional "soprano, alto, tenor, and bass". So each group is likely to have some male, some female, some high, and some low voices in them. One group will have the melody, another a different melody, another will sing only a fraction of the words in an interesting counter-rhythm, and another might have an interesting clapping pattern.

Today's new song counts as a "learn Swedish one song at a time" entry, even though it is largely nonsense:

Svamp!

Jag vill bo i en svamp
annars får jag kramp
det finns hopp för min kropp
i en mullig sopp
Kom en kväll ah var snäll
till min kantarell
Titta in å ta ton
i min champinjon

Meanwhile group two sings:

Svamp, svaaaaaaaamp, en svamp, en svamp, en…

While the other group just shouts out: Svamp! at the end of each of the main phrases above.

The above (kind of) means:

I want to live in a mushroom
or else I will have a cramp
there is hope for my body
in a chubby mushroom
Come one night, oh be kind
to my mushroom
Come by and start singing (take a tone)
in my mushroom.

(ok, as a non-mushroom eater, I didn't bother to translate the various types of mushrooms and fungi, since I couldn't tell them apart, anyway…)

One can listen to it here.

Note: bethchm, mom is having enough fun singing with us in choir that if you happen to hear of a "just for fun" choir in your area you might encourage her to join it...