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….the holy night, when the child was born to the world. That night when everybody wanted to sing, everybody at two, everybody at four. Yes, even the birds. And the trees. Everybody wanted to tell about the great wonder that the child was born, and the star lit over the Taiga….. The star is a free tale about the Christmas gospel and the escape with the newborn King. The history from the Bible has been moved to the Nordic landscape with the Taiga’s timeless snow and pine woods. Geirr Lystrup has let himself be inspired and thus made eighteen new Christmas songs to Russian folk tunes. 1. VIRGIN MAJA’S SPRING. (Jomfru Majas vår) Virgin Virgin Maja During thousand years Through the dark Taiga walks Virgin Maja’s spring Virgin Virgin Maja Naked foot freezes But in the open hand Virgin Maja caries light Virgin Virgin Maja During thousand years Through the dark Taiga walks Virgin Maja’s spring 2. WHY ME (Kvifor meg) Why me and this big light Why me in the angels’ glow These words to me from the Heaven were sent Sounding in the ear without stop Why me, so small and so young Why me, so tender and slender Why me of all women around I was never close to a man White trees are standing so silently in ring White trees, what do they think? And when Joseph home from the forest comes What will poor Joseph say? Why me, a poor girl from the taiga Here where I am freezing in old snow All alone under the sky Why me and this grain? Heaven grain that grows in my stomach To a child that I will have God in Heaven wanted it like that God in Heaven will find advice 3. MAJA’S WINTER CHILD (Majas vinterbån) Virgin Maja stamps in snow so heavy Virgin Maja small and young Dear Joseph gives Our Maja life and shelter Virgin Maja in snow so heavy Virgin Maja shakes so wet and so cold Joseph, you have warmth so hold Hold your wistful arm Make Virgin Mary warm Virgin Maja so wet and so cold The forest dangerously dark, but a star is standing Lights up the path we are walking Lights high and new There where we can find shelter The forest dark, but a star is standing Virgin Mary soon you are loosened and free Soon is woe and walking ended When our Heaven son Mother Maja’s winter child Tells about spring in our dark time 4. MOTHER MAJA VIRGIN (Jomfru Maja mor) Mother Maja Virgin Mother Maja Virgin Under straw and hay Under straw and hay Between calf and Ox In his voice You can rest In an invisible dance Forget the hard pain Angles are stepping in Inside your stomach They are singing cheek against cheek With such a soft chops Cheek against cheek in unison The child sent from God Mother Maja Virgin Mother Maja Virgin Mother Maja Virgin Under straw and hay Under straw and hay Close your eyes Between calf and Ox Safe you are tonight You can rest Joseph holds his hand Forget the hard pain Around your back so slender Inside your stomach Mumbles mild words With such a soft chops Mother Maja Virgin The child sent from God 5. WONDERFUL NIGHT (Underbare natt) Wonderful night at the Taiga Wonderful night on earth Heaven lifts the big star Because Virgin Mary has become mother Wonderful night at the Taiga Wonderful new love God has given himself as gift A child has been born at dawn Wonderful night at the Taiga Wonderful birthday The spruce tolls with silver in the bell And fox and hare sing together Wonderful night at the Taiga Come and see how good he is Round in the cheeks with dimples And on the fine foot small toes 6. SLEEP NOW MAJA MOTHER (Sov no Maja mor) Sleep now Maja mother The snow falls white Hides our tracks Never shall they get here The child at your breast The child sucks warm Fills you with lust Oh, blessed bosom Joseph stares far away In embers and fire Joseph sees many things Beyond the quiet evening Snow, mother Maja, snow Big Sower’s hand Sows the white grains Over your promised land 7. THREE SMALL KINGS Three small kings bore to the cradle Expensive gifts they wanted to give to the Child The first king gave a bawl with rise So that it never more shall starve on the earth Three small kings bore to the cradle Expensive gifts they wanted to give to the Child The second gave away his gun So that it never more shall be war on earth Three small kings bore to the cradle Expensive gifts they wanted to give to the Child The third king gave away his flute So that love can dance across the earth Three small kings travelled happily home A gift they each received from the Child Each their own gift, a mystery That the Heavenly King whispered in their ear. 8. MAJA’S FLOWER BED (Majas blomeseng) Yellow, red, vio lio light Buds that sprout in Maja’s childbed We are flowers, grains in the winter hay Unfolds a summer field White anemones spread out their sheet Softest sky to rest the back Shy twinflower cools with its cushion Virgin Maja’s hard pain The poor kid cried itself into the world Wrinkled jaw and cheeks wet with tears Now so clean by dew on the silky straw Blow-waved hair by bumblebee wind Sister hip, brother peppermint Waves its cup in Christmas mass garb Over the cradle bells are chiming: Be welcome, child of God 9. HEAVENLY CHILD (Himmel-Onge) Virgin Maja, mother pitching swan The bosom overflows by honey and cream Heaven-child, behind motherly wing Can you suck, and see paradise Little you know about poverty and winter About the ice that runs through the world But you suspects that spring will come With a sap as relieving weeping Heaven-child, then you step towards the light To see, to separate the darkness On a bridge over doubt, over tear You shall lead us faithfully by hand But tonight you shall suck and sleep Under glares from a good-hearted star Virgin Maja is (a) swan-white cushion Heaven-child, for our pleasant dream 10. VIRGIN MAJA’S WONDER (Jomfru Majas under) The taiga sings about Virgin Maja’s Wonder Silent pine even voices Great things and unbelievable miracle Everything can happen where Virgin Maja passes She can get the lame one to dance The broken-hearted she makes laughing Worst miser and ugliest skinflient Turns out their pockets to give Does she stir in poor mother’s pot The pea’s soup bubbles from a stone From a pine which obediently bows its neck Maja plucks an apple from a branch The dragon escapes, the troll sinks in the mountain The darkness gives way where Maja lights Master Bruin gets the splint out of the paw The wolf itself gets warmth when it freezes Virgin Maja has a golden key During thousands of years she can walk Hope for everyone when the heart catches the lock Then Maja comes here and knocks on 11. GIVE FROM THE HEART (Gje av hjartet) By the gold-gilded cathedral In the pale godforsaken sun A poor wife is sitting by the portal Give from the heart for a blessed Christmas The bell tolls, a dove flies from the tower Up the wife looks, peers in a vision The dove becomes a child, the heavenly born In a radiance of white lightning Says the child: Com, now we shall sail Against God Father’s high heavenly chair Ascend from the snow, forget your hoarse rigmarole Give from the heart for a blessed Christmas Gone is the wife, left is this riddle Where did she disappear from her poor abode? Down from the tower a dove will weep: Give from the heart for a blessed Christmas 12 DANCE VIRGIN MAJA (Dans Jomfru Maja) Dance Virgin Maja until the heaven laughs Dance Virgin Maja, God Father sits and sees The Northern Lights ascend from your shimmering body Shimmering heart up towards the stars Dance Virgin Maja until the Northern Lights beat Out from the colourful hair of the whole soul Dance Virgin Maja with the kid against the cheek Tear of the whole world into Heaven 13 VIRGIN MAJA’S BOSOM (Jomfru Majas bryst) A waltz I will sing off heart and lust Tell about Our Mother and Virgin Maja’s bosom So round as the nest where the lapwing has its house So round are those tits two cup-formed mugs So full as the moon which floats on the water So full are those breasts and whiter than snow Yeah soft as clouds against the blue sky Two silky cushions Joseph can rest his eye on And there in the middle of this cushion the wine trickles And Heaven shall know that vintage was fine Inexhaustible is that source for the thirsty one But the kid only the kid will suck last and first So quiet, so quiet at Maja’s bosom So quiet that it can silence the entire world’s wild noise A waltz I will sing off heart and lust Tell if you know more about Virgin Maja’s bosom 14 JOSEPH SINGS (Josef syng) When you like the star got out of the darkness With a cooling hand for my hot cheeks When you like rain for doubt and drought Gave love a name and baptised it as mine The time of grace far beyond prayer and psalm That day when we became one in soul and mind At a chilly foot the two of us must wander Where hunger and thirst are fruits of my stick But the light we carry for each other When the fugitive’s path must endure drifting snow and dense snowfall Look at me when (the) hope will sink One look is enough I will ascend like an island up from the sea When you like the star get out of the darkness With a cooling hand for my hot cheeks When you like rain for doubt and drought Gave love a name and baptised it as mine The time of grace far beyond prayer and psalm That day when we became one in soul and mind 15 SPIDER SPIDER (Edderkopp edderkopp) Spider spider harvest spider you Lend me of wisdom and lend me of faith The faiths that you have for the exact thread you are weaving Is important because it is yours Spider spider, put up a loom Show that energetic strive is of use The thread is thin, yeah but long as a night Before it is day it can be that It is you who in stitch and web Entraps from the sky pure and simple The star from the East with its secret shimmering And proves that she really existed The Star from the East, now the kid shall be happy The Star from the East that one the kid shall keep The kid shall play with God Father’s ball Finger and fumble with a thousand crystals Spider spider harvest spider you See what you created in wisdom and faith From Virgin Maja and Maja’s finger As reward you will get a surprising thing The cross on your back forever You receive for eagerness and harvest spider’s diligence Thanks ‘cause the kid a happy while Tasted Heaven with laughter in (his) mouth 16 THAT TEAR (Den tåra) The tear you shed is our tear The smile that you smile is our smile The sad road you have to walk We all walk with you mile after mile And the child, that shines high by the cheek That child is also our kid By belief, hope, and love Which is born in pain year after year So go Virgin Maja our way this night Let the star be on fire over the Taiga And twinkle as the hope of the refugee About peace and freedom behind the skyline See the light, VirginMaja, the light turns It trickles in the dark shallows of the heart It predicts the truth as a swallow’s wing A summer shall come in a (little) while 17 FROM HEAVEN AN ANGEL CAME (Frå himlen kom ein engel) From Heaven an angel came at the trench of the war So strange the light was standing that the fights came to a stop Now to us a Saviour is born, the Child we waited for The Child speaks with a tongue the entire world can understand The Child bans the war, blesses the world with peace His language is called Love – God’s Love without words Prince stood up against prince with hatred in words and speech Forward the angel brought the light into the courtroom of peace Now to us a Saviour is born, the Child we waited for The Child speaks with a tongue the entire world can understand A thousand tongues the hatred has had to wage wars The Child is the Word itself for Pravda, peace and fred [=peace] Wonderful silence which stepped into our heart It sounded in praise and went from gate to gate Now to us a Saviour is born, the Child we waited for The Child speaks with a tongue the entire world can understand The Peace surrounds the World, an Angel shiningly free The Child smiles from the cradle, God’s smile for evermore |
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