Lice lyrics

Kristina (to Ulrika)

It's you! You've infested us all with lice!

Ulrika

We're going to settle this right now, Kristina from Korpamoen

Listen to this creature here

Always so polite and nice

Dares to tell me I've got lice

Ask my pardon on your knees

Kristina

Not till Hell begins to freeze!

Kneel to you - I'd sooner die

I'll embrace the devil first

Ulrika

Listen to your blasphemies

Don't you care if you are cursed?

Danjel

Silence, in the name of peace

Ulrika

She must take it back, I say

Every lying word of it

Once upon a time, perhaps

I was young and strayed a bit

Jesus saved me from my shame

Kristina

And "The Happy One" your name

Ulrika

Gonna show the lot of you

There's not a single louse on me

You look me over all you like

And not a bloody louse you'll see

Kristina

Well, you are shaming every woman here

You wanton woman, you are crazy

Ulrika

You're the one who has accused me

Ulrika & Kristina

May the Lord above forgive you

Ulrika

Then Inga-Lena shall be my witness!

Come with me and examine my clothes!

Fina-Kajsa

Speaking of lice, do you know how the

louse was created?

Here's that story now

Let me tell you how

Once the Lord came

down to earth and was

harassed by a beggar in the street

Emigrants

What did the Lord say?

Fina-Kajsa

"Get yourself a job!"

Said Almighty God

"I'm afraid that's not for me, good Sir

A krona, oh please, I got to eat"

Emigrants

What did the Lord do?

Fina-Kajsa

Never in the mood to carp or cavil

God Almighty grabbed a fist of gravel

Flung all of it upon the sluggard

Who was stunned and shouted: "I'll be buggered!"

Fina-Kajsa & Emigrants

Every bit o'gravel as it hit him

Turned into a little louse that bit him

"Scratch till you drop" the good Lord stated

That is how the louse was first created!

Ulrika

Tell 'em all I spoke the truth

Did you see a sign of lice

Anywhere upon my skin?

Tell'em all what you have seen

Inga-Lena

She is absolutely clean

Ulrika

Absolutely clean, you hear?

Clean of lice and clean of fleas

(Addressing Kristina)

Now you take back every word

Say you're sorry, if you please

Say you're sorry on your knees

Kristina

I would sooner rot in hell

Sooner leap into the sea

Kowtow to this Jezebel?

It would be a blasphemy

Don't you dare to talk to me!

Ulrika

Thank you for your kind advice

Kristina

I still think you brought the lice

Ulrika

Don't you come the high and mighty

Thinking you're a better class

I ought to scratch your eyeballs out

And shove'em up your bloody -

Kristina

Never will I ask your pardon

You are cruel and hard'n you will never scare me

Ulrika

You're the one who has accused me

Ulrika & Kristina

May the Lord above forgive you

Fina-Kajsa

You can put some lice in a sandwich

To give to a child who is hungry

Makes a decent little snack

And he can chew it. A baby can do it.

It tastes a bit like toffee

Emigrants

That's nice. Mmm mmm!

Fina-Kajsa

Recommend it with a cup of coffee

Fina-Kajsa & Emigrants

Everyone in Sweden longs to get out

Even little lice can't wait to set out

Scratch till you're raw

You'll never beat'em

Any way you try

You can't defeat'em

Little parasites who love to chew you

Pesky little mites, they'll chew right through you

Drill through your skin and then start munchin'

Have you for their breakfast, tea and luncheon

Creeping and a-crawling

Pestilential and appalling

Lice!