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Heritage Songbook Version
I'm a Svede from Nort' Dakota,
Vork on farm for half a year,
I vent down to Minneap'lis
All to see da big State Fair.
I vent down to Seven Corners
Vere Salvation Army play,
Dere a voman come up to me,
Dis is vat the voman say.
She say, "Vill you vork for Yesus?"
I say, "How much Yesus pay?"
She say, "Yesus don't pay notting."
I not vork for him today.
I voke up da very next morning,
In da town dey call Saint Paul;
I voke up vit' an awful headache;
Tink I got some alcohol.
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Elisabeth Skoglund's text
I ban a Swede from North Dakota
Work on da farm for about two years
Tank I will go to Minnesota
Take a look at the big state fair
Buy me a ticket, buy me a bottle
Dress me up, clean out of sight
Yump on Yim Hill's little red wagon
Feel so good, I feel like a fight
Waking up the very next morning
In the city they call St. Paul
Yump on the streetcar, go to Minneaplis
Tank I'll find some Swede mens dere
I go down to Seven Corners
Walk into saloon for fun
Dere I meet this great big Swede girl
Slap me on the shoulder, say 'Hello Sven!'
And we drink and we feel yolly
And we start to dance and sing
And I say to the other Swede fellows
"I will pay for the whole blame thing!"
Waking up in yale next morning
By this fellow they call da bull
And he says "Ten days or dollars -
Cause you ban so awful full"
I look through all my pockets
I can't find no money for bail
Nothing's left for this poor Swede man
But to spend ten days in yale
I'm going back to North Dakota
Get a yob on a farm somewhere
And all you people in Minnesota
Go yump in the lake with your big state fair!
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