The lyrics are as follows:
Ja, må han/hon leva, yes may he/she live
Ja, må han/hon leva, yes may he/she live
Ja må han/hon leva ut i hundrade år yes may he/she live to be a hundred years old
Javisst ska han/hon leva, of course he/she will live
Javisst ska han/hon leva, of course he/she will live
Javisst ska han/hon leva ut i hundrade år. of course he/she will live to be a hundred years old
None of these lyrics will be any news to my Swedish readers, so for a bit of extra entertainment value (and for the benefit of those non-Swedes who have no idea what the song actually sounds like) here's a disastrous children's pop classic version of the bloody thing:
You often get subjected to this song multiple times a day, as you are traditionally woken up by family bringing breakfast while singing this song, then probably your friends or colleagues will sing it at you at work or school, some other friends or relatives will call you up on speakerphone to sing it at you and then when you get your cake you'll have it sung yet again.
The only thing I really wanna know is, what the fuck are you supposed to sing to someone on their 100th birthday? Awkward! Some suggestions for changes to the final line are "Javisst ska hon leva många lyckliga år" (of course she will live many wonderful years) and "Javisst ska du leva så länge du får" (of course you will live as long as you can) but in truth it was even hard to find those suggestions. I'm nowhere even close to being 100 and I'm already worrying about it, apparently not a lot of other people are doing the same.
After the song, everybody does the "trefaldig hurra" which means saying hooray 3 times, a bit like the seriously outdated "Hipp-hipp hooray" in England which I haven't heard anyone do for a goodly while, probably for goodly reason.
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