Sofia Karlsson ft. Martin Hederos – “Julkortet” (The Christmas Card).

   Hey people! 🙂 

   On the second day of Christmas, I want to share with you another Christmas song that I have no clue why I never remembered to share it on previous Christmases on here, because I’ve liked it for years. Except unlike yesterday’s and Christmas Eve’s songs, this one is not a carol, not even a traditional song, though sung by a folk singer. I truly love this song as such, and Sofia’s beautiful vocal is always a pleasure to listen to as well. She is accompanied by Martin Hederos on the piano, and I decided to share a live version. The translation below is written by Bibiels. In case someone is curious/confused about the falleri fallera fallerej thing and what it means, it’s just, what do they call it? Non-lexical vocables? lol, well, anyway, each language has some of their own, and a fair amount of Scandinavian and apparently German music as well has “falleri fallera” in it. I actually tried to find out if it still might mean something more that I was not aware of but it doesn’t seem to be the case. And here it fits because it’s about the falling snow so it is similar to the word falling (faller). Ironically, here it is rain that is falling right now and has been falling for a few hours. 😀 

   I’m writing a Christmas card to you now 

I hope you are feeling better 

That the snow is falling coolly over your worries 

That you have found home 

I am writing with pen on paper 

Just like I did before 

The cold snow is falling at my window 

Against cobblestone and at the door 

It’s falling white, fallera, falleri

We have a thousand memories left, falleri fallera 

And we fell with the snow and the night that time 

And I will never forget you, fallerej 

 

I am writing a Christmas card to you now 

And I send you a thousand little angels 

Who shall watch over the children’s beds 

And stroke your worry to rest 

I am writing without ink and without pen 

On lines that no one has seen 

There are thousands of cards that were never sent 

This is one of those 

 

It’s falling white, fallera, falleri 

We have a thousand memories left, falleri, fallera 

And we fell with the snow and the night that time 

And I will never forget you, fallerej 

It’s falling white, fallera, falleri 

We have a thousand memories left, falleri, fallera 

And we fell with the snow and the night that time 

And I will never forget you, fallerej