Sailor in Swedish

[Stefan Diös]

About "Den suckande sjömannen" (Swedish version of Donald Duck's great hit 
"The Screaming Cowboy"):


> >>They
> >>sing it on the tune of Home on the range. (ranch?) - In Sweden the
> >>founders of Nafs(k) travelled to Calisota and found the lyrics for
>it.

I was very much involved in this project... I seem to remember writing at 
length about it on this list a couple of years ago. Maybe someone who knows 
how to dig it out can find that message, in case anyone is interested. But 
I will say right now that our version doesn't use any previously known 
tune. It was composed... I mean, we found it exclusively for this song.


> >And what is this? Are these lyrics available somewhere in the net?

>I should be able to find them in one of the first swedish fanzines from
>the donaldist club upthere.

That would be "NAFS(k)uriren" #4, December 1978. I think that "Der 
Hamburger Donaldist" also published the full Swedish lyrics around that 
time, taken from that source. I don't think they asked our permission, but 
I also don't think we minded very much.

NAFS(k) will celebrate its silver anniversary (25 years) in a few months' 
time. Maybe we shouldn't speculate, but perhaps that would be a fitting 
time to let the full song be heard again... let's hope there isn't any snow 
in Stockholm in September...


Stefan Dios
Malmo, Sweden