Ida's Sommarvisa [English translation]

You shouldn't believe that summer will come

Unless someone gets a move on

in the summer and makes it a little summer-like

because then the flowers will come soon.

I make the flowers blossom

the entire cow pen green

and now the summer has come

because I have just got rid of the snow

I make a lot of water in the creek

like when it swirls and rushes

I make plenty of swallows that flies

and mosquitoes that the swallows take

I make the leaves new on the trees

and small birds nests here and there

I make the sky beautiful in the evening

because I make it all pinkish

And wild strawberries, I'll make for the children

Because I think that they should have it

and other small funny things

that suits when the children are little

And I make such funny places

where the children can run about

then the children will get full of summer

and legs that will joyfully run

• Artist:Astrid Lindgren