Brev från kolonien [English translation]

Hello mom hello dad!

Here's a letter from your favorite guy.

We're having fun in the colony,

there's 28 gangster boys in a...

... big barrack with a lot of beds.

Could you send more money?

It would be a good deed

I have gambled away everything

else.

I want to promise that it's fun here

even-though it's a little bit hard to sleep

the guy in the bunk above me

he never wakes up when he needs to.

I have lost two front teeth

because I was going to walk on my hands

when we were playing charades,

so when mommy now sees me she will freak out.

Out in the forest there is bacilli

but my friend he has pills

that he bought from some shady man,

and if you eat them you become really funny.

The manager has left

he will never be the same again,

because the police came and took him

last week when we played forest fire.

Out in the forrest there is deer,

in the barracks there are small animals

and my best friend Tage

he has a little pocket knife in his stomach.

They will do surgery on him,

yeah now I don't know anything more

hugs and kisses and also many thanks,

but now we are going to burn the neighboring barrack!

• Artist:Cornelis Vreeswijk
• Album:Visor och oförskämdheter