Hujedamej, sånt barn han var [English translation]

Now listen, dear friends

And I shall tell you

What a boy did

It was a long time ago

But surely the memory remains

Among the lovely valleys of Småland

Katthult, in Lönneberga

Was the boy's home

Oh Jesus, what a child he was

You can't think of anyone that's worse

And he carried the name of Emil

Yes, his name was Emil

Sing-dudel-dej sing-dudel-dej

sing-dudel-dudel-dej,

sing-dudel-dej sing-dudel-dej

hu-jeda-jeda-mej

Now listen, dear friends

And I shall tell you

What our Emil did

One day in the lovely month of May

Up in the flagpole of Katthult he raised

His little sister

And then he calmly observed her

Hanging there tilted

Oh Jesus, what a child he was

But Ida was pretty pleased

Because no one else has been floating

On an high altitude like this

His next frolic was when

He shoved his head

Into the vegetable soup and

Then got firmly stuck

In his mother's soup bowl

Because his ears were too big

There was nothing else to do but to travel

To doctor with haste

Oh Jesus, what a child he was

Don't you also think

That the one who's only belonging is a soup bowl

Doesn't want any boys in in it

Now listen, dear friends

Surely I can't tell you about

All the awful frolics that

Our Emil was up to

But he got to sit in the carpenter shed

For all his days

Think about that, children, if

You hear this song

Oh Jesus, what a child he was

In all of Småland there wasn't

Anyone as wild as Emil

And nowhere else

Sing-dudel-dej sing-dudel-dej

sing-dudel-dudel-dej,

sing-dudel-dej sing-dudel-dej

hu-jeda-jeda-mej

Sing-dudel-dej sing-dudel-dej

sing-dudel-dudel-dej,

sing-dudel-dej sing-dudel-dej

hu-jeda-jeda-mej

• Artist:Astrid Lindgren