Oleanna (song)
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Oleanna is a Norwegian folk song which was translated into English and popularized in the United States by Weavers member Pete Seeger.
The song concerns the singer's desire to leave Norway, at the time of the song's composition a possession of Sweden, and escape to the title location, a land where "wheat and corn just plant themselves/Then grow a good four feet a day/While on your bed you rest yourself"; compare the song "Big Rock Candy Mountain".
The Kingston Trio recorded a version of the song with a rewritten lyric on their 1959 album "Here We Go Again!". That group also rerecorded a shortened version of the song with another set of lyrics as a radio advertisement for 7-up.
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