Track #10 of the album “Return to Snoose Boulevard: More Songs from the Scandinavian Emigrant Heritage.” Performed by Anne-Charlotte Harvey, E. Craig Ruble, and Stephen Gammell.
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From the album:
"sung in Norwegian. The J. P. Danks tune familiar as 'Silver Threads Among the Gold' (1873) was given several sets of Scandinavian lyrics. This text was taken from a recording and songbook by Slim Jim and the Vagabond Kid (Ernest and Clarence Iverson). Born in North Dakota into a Norwegian-speaking family, they were later cowpunchers in Texas and popular entertainers and broadcasters in the Upper Midwest. They drew their repertoire from both Scandinavian-American and Anglo-American sources. They always performed in cowboy dresses, yet even their cowboy songs were sung with a Scandinavian lilt. (Slim died in 1958; The Kid, who left the act in the 1940's, lives in retirement in North Dakota). These nostalgic lyrics may refer to a farm in the Midwest or one in Norway: 'Dear sweet home of youthful memories / Makes my thoughts go there again / Where my cradle once did stand / And my childhood songs I sang.' --Craig, fiddles; Stephen, bass and guitars; Anne-Charlotte Harvey sings a second voice."
Courtesy of the Augsburg University Archives; available for non-commercial use. Digitized from a vinyl record in 2017-2018.
Identifier: SC.05.1.5.020.10
