{"id":2422,"date":"2013-05-22T21:22:13","date_gmt":"2013-05-22T19:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helensjoholm.nu\/_eng\/?page_id=2422"},"modified":"2022-05-15T18:38:46","modified_gmt":"2022-05-15T16:38:46","slug":"lice","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/helensjoholm.nu\/_eng\/2006-2010\/kristina-at-carnegie-hall\/lice\/","title":{"rendered":"Lice"},"content":{"rendered":"

Helen Sj\u00f6holm, Louise Pitre, Joy Hermalyn, David Hess, Ensemble<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kristina (to Ulrika) <\/strong>
\nIt’s you\u2026 You’ve infested us all with lice!<\/p>\n

Ulrika <\/strong>
\nWe’re going to settle this right now, Kristina from Korpamoen!<\/p>\n

Listen to this creature here
\nAlways so polite and nice
\nDares to tell me I’ve got lice
\nAsk my pardon on your knees<\/p>\n

Kristina <\/strong>
\nNot till Hell begins to freeze!
\nKneel to you \u2013 I’d sooner die
\nI’ll embrace the devil first!<\/p>\n

Ulrika <\/strong>
\nListen to your blasphemies
\nDon’t you care if you are cursed?<\/p>\n

Danjel <\/strong>
\nSilence, in the name of peace<\/p>\n

Ulrika <\/strong>
\nShe must take it back, I say
\nEvery lying word of it
\nOnce upon a time, perhaps
\nI was young and strayed a bit
\nJesus saved me from my shame<\/p>\n

Kristina<\/strong>
\nAnd \u201cThe happy one’s\u201d your name<\/p>\n

Ulrika <\/strong>
\nGonna show the lot of you
\nThere’s not a single louse on me
\nYou look me over all you like
\nAnd not a bloody louse you’ll see<\/p>\n

Kristina<\/strong>
\nWell, you are shaming every woman here
\nYou wanton woman, you are crazy<\/p>\n

Ulrika <\/strong>
\nYou’re the one who has accused me<\/p>\n

Ulrika & Kristina<\/strong>
\nMay the Lord above forgive you<\/p>\n

Ulrika <\/strong>
\nThen Inga-Lena shall be my witness!
\nCome with me and examine my clothes!<\/p>\n

Fina-Kajsa<\/strong>
\nSpeaking of lice\u2026 Do you know how the
\nlouse was created?<\/p>\n

Here’s that story now
\nLet me tell you how
\nOnce the Lord came
\ndown to Earth and was
\nharassed by a beggar in the street<\/p>\n

Emigrants <\/strong>
\nWhat did the Lord say?<\/p>\n

Fina-Kajsa <\/strong>
\n\u201cGet yourself a job!\u201d
\nSaid Almighty God
\n\u201cI’m afraid that’s not for me, good Sir
\nA krona oh please, I got to eat\u201d<\/p>\n

Emigrants <\/strong>
\nWhat did the Lord do?<\/p>\n

Fina-Kajsa<\/strong>
\nNever in the mood to carp or cavil
\nGod Almighty grabbed a fist of gravel
\nFlung all of it upon the sluggard
\nWho was stunned and shouted:
\n\u201cI’ll be buggered!\u201d<\/p>\n

Fina-Kajsa & Emigrants <\/strong>
\nEvery bit o’ gravel as it hit him
\nTurned into a little louse that bit him
\n\u201cScratch till you drop\u201d the good Lord stated
\nThat is how the louse was first created!<\/p>\n

Ulrika<\/strong>
\nTell \u2018em all I spoke the truth
\nDid you see a sign of lice
\nAnywhere upon my skin?
\nTell \u2018em all what you have seen<\/p>\n

Inga-Lena<\/strong>
\nShe is absolutely clean<\/p>\n

Ulrika<\/strong>
\nAbsolutely clean, you hear?
\nClean of lice and clean of flees
\n( Addressing Kristina )
\nNow you take back every word
\nSay you’re sorry if you please
\nSay you’re sorry on your knees<\/p>\n

Kristina <\/strong>
\nI would sooner rot in hell
\nSooner leap into the sea
\nKowtow to this Jezebel?
\nIt would be a blasphemy
\nDon’t you dare to talk to me!<\/p>\n

Ulrika <\/strong>
\nThank you for your kind advice<\/p>\n

Kristina <\/strong>
\nI still think you brought the lice<\/p>\n

Ulrika <\/strong>
\nDon’t you come the high and mighty
\nThinking you’re a better class
\nI ought to scratch your eyeballs out
\nAnd shove \u2018em up your bloody \u2013<\/p>\n

Kristina<\/strong>
\nNever will I ask your pardon
\nYou are cruel and hard ‘n you will never scare me<\/p>\n

Ulrika<\/strong>
\nYou’re the one who has accused me<\/p>\n

Ulrika & Kristina<\/strong>
\nMay the Lord above forgive you<\/p>\n

Fina-Kajsa<\/strong>
\nYou can put some lice in a sandwich
\nTo give to a child who is hungry
\nMakes a decent little snack
\nAnd he can chew it, a baby can do it
\nIt tastes a bit like toffee<\/p>\n

Emigrants<\/strong>
\nThat’s nice. Mmm mmm!<\/p>\n

Fina-Kajsa <\/strong>
\nRecommended with a cup of coffee<\/p>\n

Fina-Kajsa & Emigrants<\/strong>
\nEveryone in Sweden longs to get out
\nEven little lice can’t wait to set out
\nScratch till you’re raw
\nYou’ll never beat \u2018em
\nAny way you try
\nYou can’t defeat \u2018em
\nLittle parasites who love to chew you
\nPesky little mites, they’ll chew right through you
\nDrill through your skin and then start munchin’
\nHave you for their breakfast, tea and luncheon
\nCrasping and a-crawling
\nPestilential and appalling
\nLice!<\/p>\n

\u00a9 2010 Mono Music AB<\/p>\n

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