Текст и перевод песни Sigvart Dagsland - Hendt I Dag

Hendt I Dag

Hu va'kje ei av di som lot seg jage.
Men hu va pene, bygdå's mannfolk di låg strage.
Nå va hu blitt gravid, det blei til slutt et slid,
å motstå presse.

Bare sytten år sa folk, det er for gale.
Ingen bygd som vår er sånn ein stor skandale.
Å Venke fekk sin dom, i blikkå kor hu kom,
Sto dommen skreve.

For at ein må mobbast å ein må svi,
Så me kan tomme sjøl gå fri, fra skammen.
Det har hendt i dag, det har hendt i går.
Den svake ligge me andre står omkring,
å nyde oss sjøl.

Han var fremmed å aleina her i lande.
Han hadde rynker i ein mørke brune panne.
Han jobba på fabrikk, nesten heila lønnå gikk,
Med post til Kairo.

Men han var dyktige,
Snart var han bland di beste i faget.
Han blei ein trussel mot di andre i arbeidslaget.
Mohammad blei fryst ut, for språk kultur å hud,
Va vondt å skjula.

For når ein blir utstøtt å gjort til skam,
Kam me andre trenga oss langre fram i køen.
Det har hendt i dag, det har hendt i går.
Den svake lykke me andre står omkring,
å nyde oss sjøl.

Der va ein som sa at det er di små så er di største.
Di som nå er sist skal ein gong bli di fusste.
Ein merkelige fyr, så folk han er på styr, det meinte mange.

Han sa di som brukkes ner skal få Guds rike.
Sjøl om han visste det ville di mektige ikkje lige.
Han blei så rar å traus, då mobben slepptes laus,
å skreik "korsfest han."

Han stod heilt aleina, me lot han dø.
Så me kan leva einede for adle.
Det har hendt i dag, det har hendt i går.
Den svake lykke me andre står, omkring.
Å nyde oss sjøl.

Hendt I Dag

She wasn't the one to be chased.
But, my, she was pretty, the men of the village were laying flat.
Now, she had become pregnant, it finally became an ordeal,
to withstand the pressure.

Barely seventeen years old, people said, that's too crazy.
No village like ours has such a big scandal.
And, Venke received her sentence, in the gazes in which she arrived,
The sentence was there in writing.

Because one must be bullied and one must suffer,
So, that we ourselves can go free from the shame.
It has happened today, it has happened yesterday.
The weak, we others stand around,
To enjoy ourselves.

He was a foreigner and lonely here in this country.
He had wrinkles in a dark brown forehead.
He worked at the factory, almost his whole salary was spent,
With mail to Cairo.

But he was skilled,
He was soon among the best in the field.
He became a threat to the others in the work team.
Mohammad was shut out, because language, culture, and skin,
Were hard to hide.

Because when one is rejected and put to shame,
And we others need to advance ourselves further in the queue.
It has happened today, it has happened yesterday.
The weak, we all stand around,
To enjoy ourselves.

There was one who said that it is the small who are the greatest.
Those who are last now, shall one day be the first.
A strange man, people thought him a rebel, that many thought.

He said those who are trampled down shall receive the Kingdom of God.
Even though he knew that the powerful would not like it.
He became so strange and withdrawn, when the mob was released,
And cried "crucify him."

He stood completely alone, we let him die.
So that we could live alone for all.
It has happened today, it has happened yesterday.
The weak, we others stand, around.
To enjoy ourselves.