Queen Of The Prairie lyrics

Harald

You be quiet

Johan

It was your fault

Karl Oskar

Let her sleep - it's Christmas morning

Harald

It's a secret

Marta

Our secret

Karl Oskar

I have given her no warning!

Harald

What a present

Johan

What a Christmas

Marta

I can hardly wait to try it

Karl Oskar

When I saw it

in the window

I could hardly wait to buy it!

Children

Don't you think she will faint when she sees it

Karl Oskar

She deserves nothing less

For the way she has cared for us all

Heaven knows, she could do with some help

Children

It's a beauty

It's a wonder

Marta

I will keep it new and gleaming

Karl Oskar

She'll be speechless

For the first time!

Children

She will think she still is dreaming

Karl Oskar & Children

Like a royal lady with a silv'ry crown

She's such a splendid sight

It's as if an angel fluttering down

Has filled the room with light

It's as if a Queen in full array

Upon her throne has come to stay

"Queen of the Prairie"

For doing us the honour

Peace and blessings be upon her

Here on this happy Christmas Day

Kristina

Dear God - it's heavenly.

What a gift to get out of the blue

And it better all be paid for, too!

Karl Oskar

"Queen of the Prairie" is never gonna leave us

Children

Never ever gonna leave us

Karl Oskar & Children

Here is a present just for you

Kristina

You are welcome

Karl Oskar

Very welcome

Ulrika

Snow is high

Guest

-- and piling higher

Danjel

I am frozen to the marrow

Karl Oskar

Come and sit here by the fire

Thomassen

I smell women - lovely ladies

Fina Kajsa

Have you ever seen such weather?

Kristina

When I saw it

Well, I tell you

Could've floored me with a feather!

Ulrika

Well now, what in the world have we got here?

Karl Oskar

It's a cast iron stove that they say is the best

Kristina

And "The Queen of the Prairie" is how she's

addressed

Ulrika

Shall I curtsey?

Fina Kajsa

Keep you cosy

Danjel

God is good to you, Karl Oskar

All

Like a royal lady

With a silv'ry crown

She's such a splendid sight

It's as if an angel fluttering down

Has filled the room with light

Raise a glass of stout and shout hooray

For a lady's here, and here to stay

Queen of the Prairie, for doing us the honour

Peace and blessing be upon her

Happy, oh happy Christmas day

She is worthy of a palace kitchen

Or a very grand hotel

She will cook a goose, or boil you a moose

And keep you warm as well

More pots and pans you've seldom seen

Such a regal stove there's never been

Queen of the Prairie

For doing us the honour

Peace and blessings be upon her

Hail to Her Majesty the Queen!

Karl Oskar

...I say, it feels good

To know I am my own master

Here I own every acre

I bring in my corn from fields that are mine

Nojd

Damn you, Nilsson!

This is not your land

Nor can it belong to any man

They say among the Indians

This earth is like the heavens

No arms can ever hold a cloud

The earth cannot be claimed

By any people

Karl Oskar

Every acre stamped and paid for

You've lived too long with the Indians

Nojd

All is taken

All is stolen

From the proud Indians

Karl Oskar

Must I show you deeds and treaties?

One dollar twenty per acre

Nojd

Scraps of paper

From a white man

They don't make sense to these people

Karl Oskar

We have laws in Minnesota

Nojd

The laws of white men

Not of Indians