Allt under himmelens fäste
Swedish traditional


This is a "typical Swedish folk song", about unrequited love. There is a third verse that 
isn't included in my arrangement; you'll find it (and an English translation) on 
http://www.pcisys.net/~don_erickson/allt.htm

The only thing I don't like about this song is how the girl/woman behaves in the second verse: 
she seems to be a whining, self-pitying ninny who thinks she has no control over her
feelings and actions; a person to be pitied, perhaps, but not very likeable.

So I made another interpretation, and tried to express this in the arrangement of 
the second verse. This person is now even less likeable, but not a whiner; she thinks it is
self-evident that she always will get anything she wants, including a man's love, and is 
really ANGRY when she doesn't get her way. (I can almost see her with a smoking gun after 
she has shot her lover, because he was cheating on her).

According to this interpretation of the song, there are some instructions written in Swedish 
on page 3:

Fyrtaktsdelen av vers 2 kan sjungas ganska aggresivt och rått. Tretaktsdelen kan sjungas 
snyggare men "lidande".
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The 4/4 time signature part of verse 2 can be sung in a rather aggressive and "rough" way;
the 3/4 time signature part can be sung more nicely and prettily, but some "suffering" 
should also be put into it.