Nikolina
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Norwegian Folk Song

[Verse 1]
When you're in love you're in an awful torture;
whoever tried it will not disagree;
I was so very fond of Nikolina,
and Nikolina just as fond of me.

[Verse 2]
I asked her dad about her hand in marriage
and got the answer in the strangest way.
I never yet have left from any doorstep
in such a hurry as I did that day.

[Verse 3]
So I went home and wrote to Nikolina,
"Oh, Nikolina won't you meet me soon?
Oh meet me in the woods on Wednesday evening,
and be there with the rising of the moon."

[Chorus 1]
"Oh, Nikolina, Oh, Nikolina!
And be there with the rising of the moon."

[Instrumental Interlude]

[Verse 4]
And there I met a figure disconcerting
(the moon no greater glory could attain);
the one I met was Nikolina's papa,
armed with the meanest, most disturbing cane.

[Verse 5]
And then my knees, how they began to tremble;
I tried to run but there was not a chance.
For in the woods while o'er my knees I stumbled,
the cane began to do a polka dance!

[Verse 6]
So I went home and wrote to Nikolina,
"There's not the slightest bit of hope in me!
If you don't end me all this awful torture,
I'll end it all by jumping in the sea!"

[Chorus 2]
"Oh, Nikolina, oh, Nikolina!
I'll end it all by jumping in the sea."

[Verse 7]
And Nikolina answered in a hurry,
"Oh, darling Karl, don't be so unwise!
A suicide is nothing but a dumbell.
Why don't you wait until the old man dies?"

[Verse 8]
And now I wait, and so does Nikolina,
to see the old man kick the bucket soon.
And on his grave we're planting for remembrance
the cane he used upon me 'neath the moon.

[Chorus 3]
Oh, Nikolina, oh Nikolina!
The cane he used upon me 'neath the moon.