Blood, Corpses & Tears

Various Artists

Chapbook songs and ballads produced the mass media information of t earlier times. In Sweden these texts were distributed in small booklets since the 16th century and did not disappear completely until the 1930s.

Chapbook songs, Skillingryck acted both as the mass media information and popular songs of the past; peddlers and hawkers, selling ballads dispersed news of the sinking of the Titanic, the murder of Abraham Lincoln, and the latest royal love affair, much like the billboards of our days.

Listen to the Ballad of Elvira Madigan, the Säivis Mail Robbery, the Lagerlunda Train Disaster and many others – all recorded by the Swedish Centre for Folk Song and Folk Music Research (Svenskt Visarkiv) in the homes of those who themselves had learnt the songs from older relatives and carried the tradition on.

Show playlist

- 1.
  
  I Västergyllan där står ett slott Music: Trad
  
  2'37
- 2.
  
  Klagovisa över tvenne unga skolpojkar
  
  5'33
- 3.
  
  Sinclairsvisan
  
  6'32
- 4.
  
  Med sorgsen ton jag sjunga vill (Pigan som ...)
  
  7'41
- 5.
  
  Lilla vackra Anna om du vill
  
  2'32
- 6.
  
  Lloyd-visan
  
  3'47
- 7.
  
  Vid foten av alpen
  
  3'00
- 8.
  
  Förgäves uppå stigen (Lantflickans klagan)
  
  1'21
- 9.
  
  Licolnvisan
  
  1'50
- 10.
  
  Järnvägsolyckan vid Lagerlunda
  
  3'44
- 11.
  
  Den blomsterprydda gondolen gled (Älvsborgsvisan)
  
  2'30
- 12.
  
  Elvira Madigan
  
  4'54
- 13.
  
  Hon satt på klippan av den öde stranden
  
  8'55
- 14.
  
  I året artonhundra ja det var nittiotre
  
  5'51
- 15.
  
  Det doftar av blommor i sommarklädd skog
  
  4'24
- 16.
  
  Postrånet i Säivis
  
  2'15
- 17.
  
  Visa om Titanics undergång
  
  4'15
Total playtime 72'54

Compact Disc // CAP 21542 // Musica Sveciae/Folk Music in Sweden // Folk music // Releasedate: 1 January, 1997