Song for Fidel Castro

On the day that Castro died 
All the people cried and cried
Tears of Joy, tears of joy
Everybody lit cigars
Yes we'll finally get new cars
On the day that Castro died
They got washing machines 
They got medicine and jeans
All the things they had been denied
Oh the iron fist released 
As the dictator deceased
On the day that Castro died
They got freedom of speech 
And all kinds of books to teach
And the prisoners were all let go
The tourists gave their money 
To the people not the funny looking man
With the stupid beard
On the day that Castro died
All the people cried and cried
Tears of joy, tears of joy
The dictatorship went down
Lots of partying around
On the day that Castro died.


Castro

Umsjón útgáfu Arngrímur Viðar Ásgeirsson ; textaþýðingar Philip Vogler ; leikstjórn Hinrik Ólafsson ; leikgerð sagna Ásgrímur Ingi Arngrímsson ; leiklestur Ragnheiður Steindórsdóttir, Ólafur Egilsson, Esther T. Casey, Jóhanna Jónas, Valur Freyr Einarsson.
Borgarfjörður eystri : Kjarvalsstofa, 2005. 


Móðir mín í kví kví

An old Icelandic folk song my mother used to sing to me. 

The girl in the song is singing to her mother from her grave. The story behind the song is that the mother abandoned her child after birth in her favorite cloth. A few years later she is invited to a party of some sort, but complains to her friend that she has nothing to wear to the party, that’s when she hears her dead daughter singing this melody saying that she can borrow the cloth she was buried in. The mother went insane.

“Móðir mín í kví, kví,
kvíddu ekki því, því;
ég skal ljá þér duluna mína
duluna mína að dansa í."

Móðir mín í kví, kví

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Human - A song for North Korean defector and human rights activist Yeonmi Park.

LINDY VOPNFJÖRÐ- HUMAN
When you think you are free
 But you’re still not free to think 
When your mind is being read 
It’s hard to draw a blank

When everything is new
 It can change your whole world view
 And how do you see it  
When you know you’ve been lied to?

You’re learning to be
 Learning to be
 Learning to be human

You would die for the regime
When you’re born to love the king 
Like a puppet on a string 
Believing they could do anything to you

A fish is not aware of water 
And will drown out in the air 
In a world that is your prison 
They say it’s way worse way out there

If you learn to count your money 
You won’t need to go to school 
People pushed against a cage 
Will learn to bend the rules

If you start to speak your mind 
You’ll be target number one 
So become so famous you cannot be hurt 
To keep on keeping on

So follow that star to freedom 
Till you become that star
That leads to books, to songs, to news, to movies
To speak to who we are

Frozen in Time

Human

Lag eftir Gunnar Þórðarson
Texti eftir Hallgrím Helgason
Söngur Stefanía Svavarsdóttir
Söngtríó Fanny Kristín Tryggvadóttir
                Þórdís Sævarsdóttir
                Gísli Magna

Útgefandi Arco ehf.

Við Höfum Hátt

My mother in the pen, pen
don't you worry for, for

I shall loan you these rags of mine
rags of mine to dance in

I shall loan you these rags of mine
rags of mine to dance in


Móðír Mín Í Kví, Kví

The first single from the album You Will Know When It's Right by Lindy Vopnfjord.
www.lindymusic.com
Artist: LINDY VOPNFJÖRÐ
Album: YOU WILL KNOW WHEN IT’S RIGHT
Lindy Vopnfjord - Vocals and Acoustic Guitar
With Nýdönsk
Daníel Ágúst Haraldsson - Vocals, Björn Jörundur Friðbjörnsson - Bass, Ólafur Hólm Einarsson - Drums and Vocals, Jón Ólafsson - Keyboards and Vocals, Stefán Hjörleifsson - Electric Guitar. 
Recorded by Addi 800 at Hljóðriti Studio, Hafnarfjörður, Iceland and Jón Ólafsson at Eyrad Studio, Reykjavik, Iceland
Mixed at by Addi 800 at Room 313, Reykjavik Mastered by Steve Fallone at Sterling NYC

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Lindy Vopnfjörð Heard Quiet Riot Before He Heard Woody Guthrie

Look, Lindy Vopnfjörð and I both grew up in the ‘80s and in this interview we both admit we were into Quiet Riot long before we had even heard Woody Guthrie. But don’t worry: Lindy Vopnfjörð has caught up. The Manitoba-born Vopnfjörð, who got his start playing in his Icelandic parents’ band The Hekla Singers, moved west to Victoria in the the '90s with his brother and started the beloved band Northern Junk. Although Vopnfjörð also played in the band Major Maker, who had a smash hit with “Rollercoaster,” his string of critically-acclaimed solo albums established him as a songwriter of tremendous sensitivity and grace. In this conversation Vopnfjörð tells me about his Icelandic lineage, writing songs while his kids nap and why he thought he needed to go back to school for songwriting. He also talks about how he receives criticism, why he was drawn to Judas Priest, the history of Icelandic hockey players in Canada and his new album You Will Know When It’s Right.

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I just wrote this song for Greta.  Just recorded on my phone.
Hope you like it.

You can take your cause to the United Nations
And they will hear you roar
You can be the voice of a generation
Like no one who has ever come before

Make sure to sing your truth
And we can all sing along
And don’t let them twist your words
To make it sound like you are wrong

There is no time to waste
There’s nothing to debate
The results are all in
And we can’t hesitate

Day will turn to night
Night will turn to day
The waters will rise
The ice will melt away

The forests will be gone
And there’ll be nothing left to save
And there’ll be nothing left to save
And there’ll be nothing left to save

Cuz we all see it coming
The whole world is on fire
The end to the earth is inevitable now
There will be no survivors

And the damage cannot be reversed
If we want to save the human race
The earth will dry up we’ll all die of thirst
If we keep running at this pace
If we keep running at this pace

The science is so alarming
Mother Nature just wants to cry
So when I start shouting
You better look me in the eye
You better look me in the eye
Look me in the eye

The rapture is upon us
But there’s no second coming this time
This is the existential crisis of our era
So don’t even say what else is on your mind

It’s a dire doomsday warning
It’s the end of all times
The battle outside is raging 
There will be no compromise

If you say you don’t believe it
We’ll make an example out of you
If you’re not with us you’re against us
And we have the power, the power of the youth

We’ll come to your door
We’ll stop you where you stand
You won’t get in the way
Of what we’ve got planned

We represent the future 
And we have the world at our command
We’ve got the focus to follow through
Don’t doubt what this will do to you

The science is so alarming
Mother Nature just wants to cry
So when I start shouting
You better look me in the eye
You better look me in the eye
Look me in the eye

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Lindy Vopnfjörd is a Canadian-Icelandic musician with the rare ability to capture poetically in lyric and sound such profound nuance in modern stories. Humble and heroic human dramas seldom sang so spectacularly as this. Vopnfjörd is a proficient storyteller who distills human experience into the vital emotions that define a moment so crisply, and memorably. Hope, despair, triumph and loss, are feelings framed by Vopnfjörd’s sixth album, Frozen In Time, cast as a melodious folk soundtrack with a retro feel.

Castro

LINDY VOPNFJÖRÐ

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