Having rolled through the Icelandic cover of Jona Lewie's "Stop the Cavalry" in my random walk through seasonal music, I had the misfortune of hitting a cover of "Merry Xmas Everybody" done by the Smurfs, in Icelandic.
My ears are now bleeding.
PS interestingly, "dub-i-dub-i-dum-dum" translates to "bomborombombombom"
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Thanks to Chad I will now be humming this for the next two weeks.
Stop the Cavalry! With added bonus inadvertent political symbolism!
Jona Lewie
Ah well, maybe it will flush "Silver Bells" from my brain for a while.
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