No! lyrics

Kristina

My God, dear Robert-how you're bleeding

Your face all raw and running red

Come here and let me take a look at you

Come rest your head

Robert

He struck me down without a reason

That's been his way right from the start

My master has no pity for the weak

He has no heart

Karl Oskar

I'll make him curse the times

He raised his arm against you

For every stroke he gave you

I will land him ten!

To strike a boy of fifteen

Shame the name of Nilsson

By Christ, you'll never have to

work for him again

Robert

No more I'll bend before a master

Nor spend my life in fear of tyrants

This is a solemn oath I swear

And there's no turning back

You must help me now, Karl Oskar

Karl Oskar

Tell me, what is it you want me to do?

Robert

I want my share of the inheritance

I'm going to America

You think I'm lying, like you always do, dear brother

Karl Oskar

I thought I knew you, boy, but little did I know!

For once it seems we're in agreement with each other

Yes, that's exactly where I plan for us to go!

Kristina

No!

Karl Oskar

In America

I tell you

No one's ever hungry

Children never thin

America

They sell you

Land for half a dollar

Pay it and you're in!

Robert

In America there's fortune

Streets are paved with gold there

In America is treasure

More than you can hold there

Karl Oskar & Robert

Now tell me that you want to go

Kristina

Wolves eat the children

Snakes bite the plowmen

Savage Indians roaming through the forests

Round these parts there is

nobody talks of leaving

Karl Oskar & Robert

Someone has to take the lead

In every new endeavor

Nothing is impossible

For men who share a vision

Who'd have thought the two of us

would be in this together

Making independently

the very same decision

Kristina

It's not to the neighbouring parish

or some other part of this country,

not even a place on this continent you want to go

No, you have to move to a new world

It could be the moon,

It's as crazy as that, it's a pipedream,

as any sane person would know

Karl Oskar

I've made my decision

I know what I'm doing

Kristina

Decide all you want to

I'm saying no

Robert

In America

I tell you

No one's ever hungry

Children never thin

America

They sell you

Land for half a dollar

Pay it and you're in!

Karl Oskar

In America there's fortune

Streets are paved with gold there

In America is treasure

More than you can hold there

Karl Oskar & Robert

Now tell us yes, you want to go

Come on, confess you want to go

Kristina

Heavens, how little you both know!

You've got my answer and it's no!

PRAYER

Kristina

Dear God...

All the ships that have gone down

All the bodies lying down there in the deep

Eaten by the whales and the ocean monsters

Save us from these, Almighty Savior Jesus

Amen

I must ask Uncle Danjel's advice...