Oleanna (song)

Oleanna is a Norwegian folk song which was translated into English and popularized in the United States by Weavers member Pete Seeger.

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Norwegian - Folk song - English - United States - Weavers - Pete Seeger

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The song concerns the singer's desire to leave Norway, at the time of the song's composition a posession of Sweden, and escape to the title location, a land where "wheat and corn just plant themselves/Then grow a good four feet a day/While on your bed you rest yourself"; compare the song "Big Rock Candy Mountain".

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Norway - Sweden - Big Rock Candy Mountain

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The Kingston Trio recorded a version of the song with a rewritten lyric on their 1959 album "Here We Go Again!". That group also rerecorded a shortened version of the song with another set of lyrics as a radio advertisement for 7-up.

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Kingston Trio - 1959 - Here We Go Again! - Radio - Advertisement - 7-up

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