Stockholm i mitt hjärta [English translation]

Sunlight rises from the sea

Plays in rates and glasses

In rays of dawn

Stockholm was a gold vase

With assorted flowers of the sea beaches

Baltic oak room

Beauty on the crystalline bedrock shores

Chorus:

My dear Stockholm

Let me sing for you now

Aged in youthful verdure

You are the land of the islands

From all the countries of the world I know

You are the one that has everything

Through Mälaren's1love for the sea

A mixture of sweet and salty

Sunlight dances on the Bay

It brightens too much and too little

For the wooden shack up on the south

But even in the King's castle

Murmurs of fish rich streams

Roll into the arms of Mälaren

It darkens and gives us dreams

Chanting the Lake City's name

The dusk came in a caress

The trembling hand of the breeze

Now the sun blushes in the windows

In the Southern and Northern Mälaren Shore2

Tell me, do you hear the music and laughter

Of Djurgården3and Gröna Lund?4

A nightly hymn to Stockholm

From the Archipelago's bays and inlets

1. Otherwise known as "Lake Mälar" in English, it is the third largest lake in Sweden2. Norr Mälarstrand (Northern Mälaren Shore) is a street on Kungsholmen in central Stockholm, Sweden3. More officially known as Kungliga Djugården (The (Royal) Game Park) is an island in central Stockholm4. Literally translated as "The Green Grove" in English, it is an amusement park in Stockholm Sweden

• Artist:Lasse Berghagen