Way back in 2018 Trump made his once famous, now forgotten comments about “Shithole Countries” which inspired this parody. Based on comments that have accumulated on the original posting since that time, it bears mentioning that those “three guys” are not Norwegian and the video wasn’t shot in Norway. Just more Parody Project visual trickery for your entertainment.
Executive Producers Don Caron and Jerry Pender
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Song of Roland – Traditional Norwegian Melody
Lyrics by Don Caron
We’re happy about our country, thanks
and its praises are well-sung now
We’re one of the richest on the globe
here we take care of old and young now
the finest care is for all of us
disregarding annual income
We have respect and we’re treated thus
we protect ourselves and then some
The poor and the wealthy blend quite well
education is for all, oh
the progeny of the plumber sits with
those of the CEOs, oh
we strive for equal opportunity
human rights and gender equality
Norway is the happiest country
with lives of the highest quality
You profit from the plight of your elderly
and spend the most on health care
but your system comes in last each time
things don’t seem to ever improve there.
You rob the young of their future pay
funneled into your corporations
they leave their schools on the final day
with indebted complications
We resisted Nazi Germany
we built a system based on people
We have no need for your racist creed
Or your neo-nazi sheeple
Just because we are mostly white
doesn’t mean you are our brother
We don’t fit in with your whitewash plan,
we’re accepting of all colors
But we know that you excel
at certain things in the the USA, now
It’s only fair to acknowledge these
So we’ve one last thing to say, now
We’re aware that you are number one
for . . . for . . . citizen incarceration
You also landed in first place
for. . .
the most breast augmentation
ABOUT THE SOURCE MUSIC
Roland og Magnus kongen literally “Roland and King Magnus,” also known under the English title “Roland at the Battle of Roncevaux” is a Norwegian ballad about the legendary hero Roland of Charlemagne’s court. In the ballad, Roland’s sword (known in Old French as Durendal) is compared to a sickle, its name corrupted to Dvælje=Dvolg (Dvelgedvolg, Dvergedolg, Dvelgedolgen), explained as meaning “dwarf-fiend” or “enemy of the dwarfs” Historians are of the opinion that the ballad could not be younger than the end of the 15th century, and it “must have been handed down orally since the late Middle Ages”.
A traditional melody for this ballad originating in Norway had been collected by Hans Seeberg and Olea Crøger in the 1840s from a singer in Seljord in the Telemark region, but it is seldom used; the Norwegians mostly sing the ballad to a Faroese dance melody which was introduced in 1934 by Klara Semb. This includes a Faroese refrain or “burden” translated into Norwegian by Hulda Garborg.
In the 19th century two recorded transcriptions were collected of the more or less full ballad. Fifty variants are counted in total, but most of these are only one, two or three stanzas long, and probably served as stev or “stave” strophes. In addition, early collectors printed their own reconstructed versions, pieced together using various recensions and the Old Norse saga.