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Best song with someone's name in the title (with new liberal rules)


sage

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i don't feel up to checking the whole thread for what has been posted and what not, so i am posting something no one else here ever would.  It is a song by an Icelandic musician and lyricist Megas from his first album about one of our most esteemed poets of olden days Jónas Hallgrímsson, a particular favorite of the then and often after ruling conservative party members.  They were so offended by this song and others on this album that they had the album banned from radio and that stood for over a decade.  This of course was anticipated by clever Megas and sales of the record took off in a major way.

i went to the trouble of translating the lyrics, without rhyme, for i am lazy today.

 

Of Poet Jónas

 

Piss drunk in a lava field lay poet Jónas
And snored like a timber mill in Brazil
Mama don't approach with your delicate nose
He stinks like he's dead, you might get nauseous

He wrote about beautiful things, it is laughable
Then spilled beer over the paper and the words
Watch out mama, the man he has syphilis
Remember when he leaves to clear the table

Yes, truthfully Jónas's carcass drifted ashore
Drifted ashore the beaches of the golden coast
Look mama, the man is ill
He mumbles something of collapse and grabs his pouch

 

 

 

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