Sverige [U.S. Of America] [English translation]

Now let's go with a nice song here then,

would you like to start then, Tore

and read from the top up here

Sweden where the wind is sizzling through birch trees and the rivers are rushing,

Where we walk on top of dew splashed mountains and deep valleys

though fir forest and pine trees' halls

Up on lingonberry-red grass lands we walk past cottages

We hear birds chirping and midsummer girls giggling

Thou ancient, thou free, do you want to live or die,

Now it's your turn

I thank the roadwork department for your zealous and classy service,

every morning you come and tow away my car

The housing agency that registers my prayers

and gives me hope while waiting in line

And I thank all the department offices for documents

and letters, and that I did not have to understand what you wrote

I thank you for all the punk rockers and alcoholics

so that my wife and kids don't have to be alone when they're downtown

And grandma and grandpa thank you for the new old waltz

and for not having to leave the house at all

It's too darn great!

SWEDEN SWEDEN MOTHERLAND

YOU ARE TOO DARN GREAT!

I thank the media that makes the life more rich

by making me understand

that drug lords, robbers, lawyers

and tax evaders have a really hard knock life

I thank all the city planners that

old houses are not allowed to exist

so that we avoid the need to have something to remember

And I thank the school system for their new tidings

so that we avoid knowledge! Hey!

Regulations, prohibitions, rules, and laws

so that noone has fun or knows how to complain

And the number of sick leave lay days increases

so that I have to be sick longer nowadays

SWEDEN SWEDEN MOTHERLAND

YOU ARE TOO DARN GREAT!

I thank all the politicians and their flow of words

so that I don't have to make decisions regarding my own destiny

I thank all the employers and unions

for that you fight for our wages

so that I don't need to have my own fund for my sons

And the police because they are motorizing and expanding

so that we don't have to meet anyone on patrol

And the health care for personnel quotas and the tailored production

so that we avoid relations and emotions.... yeeah!

I thank the liberal education of our youth, free from strict rules

They create such funny artwork in Stockholm's subways.... hihihi!

I thank evolution and the concience of corporations

so that we don't have to worry about work

And I thank all computers and the code they're running

so that I don't have to find solutions myself

and I totally don't have to think at all myself - quite adequate!

Sweden where the wind no longer is sizzling through the birch trees

and the rivers no longer are rushing

where we walk among power plant mountains and fenced-off nuclear valleys

cut down fir forest and pine trees' empty halls

Thou ancient, thou free, what the hell not being good any more

WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU SAYING?

SWEDEN IS GREAT

THAT'S SELF EVIDENT!

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[sound of a fist punch] uuuiiiikkkk

[sound of a fist punch] onhoddelt

...

how was it boys?

there's only one thing to say about that

and that's

too darn great

too darn great

too darn great

too darn great

too darn great

too darn great

too darn great

too darn great

too darn great

too darn great

too darn great

too darn great

...

too darn great