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lyrics by Anna Maria Lenngren, music by Eva Toller

This is a satire about the habit of writing "shepherd's songs" in the 18th century; it had started
much earlier (for example, there are many Elizabethan songs with that theme) but perhaps people
(including Anna Maria Lenngren) had become rather tired of it by then. The song describes a "recipe"
for writing a shepherd's song (rather like popular "mainstream" love song in our own time).

The poem contains many archaic words, which are sometimes a bit hard to find modern equivalents for;
however, I hope my translation will give you the gist of the song.