You didn´t understand the swedish text, but still got emotional. That was lucky. If you had understood the text, too, you would probably have drowned in your own tears. Because it´s a very sad, melancholic text about a lonely man waiting for his dream women who never appears. Quite much in Sweden is melancholic, by the way. The weather in the autumn, the nature itself in most places. If you like the melancholic feeling, Sweden is a perfect place to live in. Me myself live in a little cottage in the dark pine forest with no other houses in sight. And I love it! The song is actually not a pure "folk song", I mean such a song that nobody really knows who created it, and sometime could be as old as from the middle ages. The song was written by a quite well known (I mean in Sweden, less so abroad) writer with the name of Dan Andersson. He died in the 1920-ies.
I'm Waiting by Sofia Karlsson I wait by my log fire while the hours tick by, while the stars wander and the nights pass. I'm waiting for a woman from faraway paths - the dearest, the dearest with blue eyes. I imagined a wandering snow-covered flower, and dreamed of a trembling, evasive laugh, I thought I saw the most beloved coming through the woods, over the moors on a snowy night. Gladly I wanted to carry my dream on my hands through the thicket to where my hut stands, and raise a jubilant cry to the dear: Welcome you, who has been waited for lonely years! I wait by my mile while the hours suffer while the forest sings and the clouds walk. I am waiting for a wanderer from far-away paths - the dearest, the dearest with blue eyes. I am waiting for a wanderer from far-away paths - the dearest, the dearest with blue eyes.
