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Saturday our Swedish group here in St. Louis had our annual Santa Lucia festival, and the Lucia queen wore the traditional costume, the white gown and the candle crown, etc. Yesterday morning, on Lucia Day itself, my daughter brought me breakfast on a tray, in keeping with the custom. So all that got me thinking, and just for fun I have composed this little ditty that I think my daughter will enjoy. Maybe you will too! Click the link and you can sing along!

SANTA LUCIA, I DON'T WANT TO BE YA
Tune: "Santa Lucia"

Santa Lucia,
I don't want to be ya;
Walking on frozen lakes
Is not my idea.

Wearing a thin white gown--
It's 15 and going down!
Santa Lucia,
I don't want to be ya.

Wearing a thin white gown--
It's 15 and going down!
Santa Lucia,
I don't want to be ya!

Santa Lucia,
I don't want to be ya;
Putting fire near my hair
Is not my idea.

Wearing a candle crown,
Wax melting, dripping down;
Santa Lucia,
I don't want to be ya.

Wearing a candle crown,
Wax melting, dripping down;
Santa Lucia,
I don't want to be ya!

Santa Lucia,
It's no panacea,
But there is one good thing,
I like your idea:

Make sure I'm good and fed,
Breakfast while in my bed;
Santa Lucia,
I'm real glad to see ya.

Make sure I'm good and fed,
Breakfast while in my bed;
Santa Lucia,
I'm real glad to see ya!

Charlie Henrickson
The wag tailoring the doggerel

Alas! I missed it! I keep trying to convince my youngest flaxen haired daughter to get up and cook just one, one breakfast a year for her parents...

Here is a site with all kinds of links to info on St. Lucy.

http://www.serve.com/shea/germusa/lucia.htm

I went to a college where most of the students were from Scandinavian back grounds. Every year a Santa Lucia Queen was elected. She would go and serve food in the cafeteria!

The Gellivare website had until just a couple months ago a beautiful video of the Santa Lucia mass from 2004. It was a compilation but was 10 or 15 minutes long. The choir's version of Silent Night was stunning.

I think Folk singer Sofia Jannnok - a Gellivare native - was in the choir, or it might have been a relative. It sure looked like her though.

Sadly they removed the video a couple of months ago. I saved it but haven't been able to find it. If I do I'll post it.

They still have a couple of nicely done tourism videos under the "Filmtajm" tab as well as an article about this year's "Julkonsert med Con Amore."

God Jul!

prisoner6