Maria [English translation]

I love you so dearly Maria,

yeah, only for your pretty, sweet name.

Yes, many beautiful girls have that name,

that's why I've drowned in many embraces.

Sometimes you're blond Maria.

Kind of often you're dark, sometimes brunette,

yeah, you have to really get into it and propose

and play your cards right.

Yes, mother-in-law after mother-in-law I've got,

of that there has never been any shortage.

The police have caught me many times

and blamed me for being bigamist.

I love you so dearly Maria,

yeah, only for your pretty, sweet name.

Yes, many beautiful girls have that name,

that's why I've drowned in many embraces.

Sometimes you're blond Maria.

Kind of often you're dark, sometimes brunette,

yeah, you have to really get into it and propose

and play your cards right.

A psychologist said to me the other day:

Now try to fall in love with a Sophie!

Now I'm fighting so I get stomach ache

to get free from the Marias.

I love you so dearly Maria,

yeah, only for your pretty, sweet name.

Yes, many beautiful girls have that name,

that's why I've drowned in many embraces.

• Artist:Alexander Rybak
• Album:Visa vid vindens ängar (2011)