Norwegian Music

Gåte - Bendik og Årolilja

Edvard Grieg - I Dovregubbens Hall

Eldrim - Attergangar

The song is about the lost spirit of a viking woman and a Volva trying to guide her back to the other side.

Attergangar (Revenant)

Sjå mot den andre ende
(Look towards the other end)
Sjå dit deg Enden sende
(Look towards the place to where The End sent you)
Djupt i den jord der dei haugla deg
(Deep in the soil where they put you in your mound)
Sjå mot det ljos der dei ynskjer deg
(Look towards the light where you are wanted)

Kvil i haug
(Rest in mound)

Gløym dine kvite bein og.......
(Forget your white bones and....)
Gløym det som var din heim
(Forget the place that was your home)
Ei skal du vandra i eigen fordum
(You shall not wander in you own past)
Søk dit ditt eige blod er nær
(Seek to where you own blood is close)

Kvil i haug
(Rest in mound)

Last verse is put together from the first two lines in the second verse and
the two last lines of the first.

Ole i'Dole - Ayatollah (1985)


Hei, god dag, god dag
Hansemann er navnet
Og jeg er pastor med mitt eget radioprogram
Jeg slår mine barn
Og trakasserer alle homser
For du vet dem man elsker, dem tukter man
Skal lille tante gi litt mer
En liten seddel, kanskje fler
Send meg din enke pensjon
Til min radiostasjon

Aya-Ayatollah Ay-Ay-Ay-Ay, Aya-Ayatollah Ay-Ay-Ay-Ay
Her kommer Hansemann
Herrens høyre hånd
Så kan jeg gå på vann
Amen

Healer alt fra gonoré til kreft i begge lunger
Har leid en fyr som sier at det ei fins håp
Så hisser vi oss opp
Og taler litt i tunger
Legger min hånd på noen, så blir han frisk for godt
Enhver kan dra til himmelen
Jeg selger avlat for hundre spenn
Send meg en fet donasjon
Til min TV-stasjon

Aya-Ayatollah Ay-Ay-Ay-Ay, Aya-Ayatollah Ay-Ay-Ay-Ay
Her kommer Hansemann
Herrens høyre hånd
Så kan jeg gå på vann
Amen

Kollekt til en god sak
Til bjørkeris og advokat
Og bedehus på tre tusen kvadrat
Men skulle det bli en krone igjen
Lover jeg å skjenke den
Til dem som ikke har noe mat og hjem
En tusing i bøssa min venn, tar deg til himmelen

Aya-Ayatollah Ay-Ay-Ay-Ay, Aya-Ayatollah Ay-Ay-Ay-Ay
Her kommer Hansemann
Herrens høyre hånd
Så kan jeg gå på vann
Amen

Ane Brun - All My Tears


Ane Brun - The Dancer

Søstrene Bjørklund - Du Ble Min Øyensten (1955)


Søstrene Bjørklund - Stjerneskudd (1954)


Søstrene Bjørklund - Rosen og Sommerfuglen (1955)

Den siste rosen, sto i kveldens blå, da hun den siste sommerfuglen så.
Og rosen sa: Nå er vår sommer slutt og mine kronblad strøs for stormen ut.
Bli her hos meg du vakre sommerfugl, når høsten raser hviler du skjul.
Men sommerfuglen enset ikke det, han løftet vingene og fløy av sted.
Han fløy og fløy, da nattens mørke kom, han angerfull til rosen vendte om.
Han ville be om hva han vraket nyss en seng av purpur og et dronningkyss.
For sent, for sent, for nu var rosen død, og kun en tistel han til hvile bød.
Slik endte det da sol i østen rant, at man en sommerfugl blant tistler fant.

The last rose, stood in the evening's blue, when she saw the last butterfly.
And the rose said: Now our summer is over and my petals are about to pour out in the storm.
Stay here with me, you beautiful butterfly, when the fall storm is raging, you'll rest sheltered.
But the butterfly didn't take notice, he lifted his wings and flew away.
He flew and flew, and when the darkness of the night came, he returned to the rose remorsefully.
He would ask for the offer he'd previously turned down, a bed of purpur and a queen's kiss.
Too late, too late, for now the rose was dead, and only a thistle was there for him to rest.
That's how it ended when the sun set in the east, they found a butterfly among the thistles.

Gåte - Grusomme Skjebne (2000)

Morten Jørgensen og Spekkhoggerne - En Sørgmodig Skillingsvise Om Solveigs Ferd til Hovedstaden (1990)

This song was banned on Norwegian radio. Critics led to canceled concerts, canceled interviews and several stores refused to sell the album. The German music magazine fm refered to the album as "the most boycotted LP in Norwegian history". Morten Jørgensen found parts of the lyrics for this song written on a toilet wall on Café Sjakk Matt (Café Checkmate). Later it emerged that it was Norwegian musician Michael Krohn (Raga Rockers) who had written it on the toilet wall, but he refused from co-crediting based on the philosophy that what is written on toilet walls is to be considered as public property. Sorry, but the lyrics are not available...

Knutsen og Ludvigsen - Señore Antonio Vivaldi (Aksjon Amnesty - 1984)

When I read that Category 3 Hurricane Ophelia is heading towards Ireland and Scotland, it made me think of this song. It's Nephilia instead of Ophelia, but... it made me think of it. It's probably the chanting of "Nephilia" in the song that sounded like "Ophelia" in my memory. Tonight will be the 30th anniversary of the Great Storm of 1987. I remember that storm, as Norway was affected too, and I was out driving in the storm, and saw lots of stuff including the whole roof of a house come flying by while I was driving. I hope Ophelia will not be too bad, but right now it seems like she might be quite wild and furious.


Seigmen - Nephilia (1994)

Seigmen - Pantheon (1994)

Vi er ikke lenger elsket her

Arbeidernes Musikkorps, Verdal - Karolinernes Dødsmarsj (The Carolean Death March)

Sivert Høyem - Long Slow Distance (Live NRK Lydverket 2011)

Sissel Kyrkjebø - Summertime (29 June 2017)

RIP Håkon Banken (19 Jan 1949 - 18 Mar 2018)!


Håkon Banken - Plåtslagerlärling


Håkon Banken - Chevan / Tømmer og Luksus

Alf Prøysen - i Bakvendtland (1959)

Katzenjammer - I En Sofa Fra IKEA (Live)

Katzenjammer - A Bar in Amsterdam (Live in Kristiansand, 08.03.2013)

Katzenjammer - My Own Tune


Katzenjammer - Tea With Cinnamon


Katzenjammer - Shine Like Neon Rays

Raga Rockers - Noen å Hate