{"id":5689,"date":"2025-02-10T00:09:47","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T00:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/folksweden.com\/?page_id=5689"},"modified":"2025-02-10T00:35:03","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T00:35:03","slug":"skalvisa-fran-jat","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/folksweden.com\/index.php\/skalvisa-fran-jat\/","title":{"rendered":"Sk\u00e5lvisa fr\u00e5n J\u00e4t"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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\u00a0 Rather than a dance tune, this is a drinking song.\u00a0 It dates from the mid 1800’s, and is known to have been sung in the little town of J\u00e4t (pronounced “Yet”) in the province of Sm\u00e5land.<\/em><\/p>

\u00a0 It was preserved for posterity by the fiddler August Str\u00f6mberg, born in 1860.<\/p>

It is a drinking song, and the words are somewhat comical, since the singer wants to celebrate his own funeral, because he doesn’t want to miss the fun when the occasion really comes up.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Kom nu, gubbar. ska vi supa,\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Min begravning detta \u00e4r.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 F\u00f6r n\u00e4r jag i graven stupa,\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Kan jag inte vara med.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00c5ss\u00e5 du \u00e5ss\u00e5 jag, \u00e5ss\u00e5 di \u00e5sso vi,\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Blott det ej sker uti fylleri,\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Kom och se hur lustigt vi klinga,\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Dessa glasen t\u00f6mmar vi!<\/p>

Come now, guys, let’s drink,\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0This is my funeral!\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 For when I do enter the grave,\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 I won’t get to participate!\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0So you and I, so ye and we,\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 As long as it doesn’t happen without drunkenness,\u00a0 Come and se how lustily we toast,\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 These glasses we will empty!<\/p>

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Until the 1970’s, this was just an obscure piece of music found in an old collection of tunes.\u00a0 \u00a0But then a jazz singer named Merit Hemmingson put out some LP albums using traditional Swedish folk music arranged for modern jazz instruments.\u00a0 The first and best-known of these, called “Bergtagen”, also included the playing of some first-rate fiddlers from Dalarna.\u00a0 The Sk\u00e5lvisa fr\u00e5n J\u00e4t was suddenly famous all over Sweden.<\/p>

Here<\/span><\/strong><\/a> is a link to the song from her album.\u00a0 It includes all 3 verses of the song, with the men in the group joining in on the chorus.\u00a0 They finish with the sound of glasses clinking.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 Rather than a dance tune, this is a drinking song.\u00a0 It dates from the mid 1800’s, and is known to have been sung in the little town of J\u00e4t (pronounced “Yet”) in the province of Sm\u00e5land. \u00a0 It was preserved for posterity by the fiddler August Str\u00f6mberg, born in 1860. It is a drinking […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5689","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","wpbf-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/folksweden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/folksweden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/folksweden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/folksweden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/folksweden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/folksweden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/folksweden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}