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  1. 06-22-2018, 06:41 #1
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    Default Trevlig Midsommar!

    Happy midsummer!
    In Sweden we selebrate this by singing a French soldier chant.

    https://youtu.be/YE70jrhOrjk

    We have another text we sing that was originally a taunt about the French but just about no one knows this anymore. It’s about small frogs...

    Now I’ll go back to pickled herring and schnapps.
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    Here are a few of our strange rites celebrating the Summer Solstice revolving mainly around Stonehenge Jonas.

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  3. 06-22-2018, 13:21 #3
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    Detsamma Jonas!

    I actually danced to that song today. I had no idea that the original version was a French soldier's chant and even less that the Swedish text was meant to be defrogatory...
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