Gråt Fader Berg och spela
Song by the 18th century Swedish bard Carl Michael Bellman / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Gråt Fader Berg och spela (Cry, Father Berg, and Play) is No. 12 in the Swedish poet and performer Carl Michael Bellman's 1790 song collection, Fredman's Epistles. The epistle is subtitled "Elegi över Slagsmålet på Gröna Lund" ("Elegy on the Battle at Gröna Lund [Tavern]"). It is a lament over a pub brawl, caused by Fredman's drinking a soldier's beer and dancing with someone else's girlfriend. Set to the melody from the aria "The flocks shall leave the mountains" in George Frideric Handel's opera Acis and Galatea, it is the best-known of his poems describing the consequences of brandy-drinking. Bellman used the contrast between the romantic associations of the melody and the brutal reality of heavy drinking to humorous effect.
"Gråt Fader Berg och spela" | |
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Art song | |
English | Cry, Father Berg, and Play |
Written | 1770 |
Text | poem by Carl Michael Bellman |
Language | Swedish |
Melody | An aria from Acis and Galatea |
Composed | 1718 |
Published | 1790 in Fredman's Epistles |
Scoring | voice and cittern |