Flickan och kråkan

Girls rescuing a crow, by Nadezhda Aleksandrovna Lukhmanova
"Flickan och kråkan"
Song by Mikael Wiehe from the album Kråksånger
Released 1981
Genre Progg
Length 3:46
Writer(s) Mikael Wiehe
Language Swedish

The Girl and the Crow (in Swedish: Flickan och kråkan) is a song composed by Mikael Wiehe, originally published on his album "Kråksånger" in 1981.

Wiehe wrote the text inspired by an image by the Swedish cartoonist Oscar Cleve: Little girl rushes to vet with wounded crow".[1][2]

Several covers have been made including versions by Dia Psalma (1994), Strömkarlen (2009), and Timbuktu (2012).[3] According to Wiehe, Anni-Frid Lyngstad from ABBA wanted to release a cover in the beginning of the 1980s to one of her albums, but he declined, one of the major reasons being that she earlier had appeared in a campaign "Prioritise yourself". It was included in Sofia Karlsson's successful 2007 studio album Visor från vinden, which also featured songs by the poets Charles Baudelaire, Inger Hagerup and Dan Andersson.[4]

Charts

Timbuktu version

Chart (2011–2012) Peak position
 Sweden 7[5]

References

  1. ↑ Wiehe, Mikael. "Ägd av Wiehe". Mikael Wiehe. Retrieved 11 March 2016.
  2. ↑ "Oscar Cleve 1906-1991". SatirArkivet.se. Retrieved 11 March 2016.
  3. ↑ "Versions Flickan och kråkan written by Mikael Wiehe". Second Hand Songs. Retrieved 11 March 2016.
  4. ↑ "Visor från vinden". Sonloco.com. Retrieved 13 May 2012.
  5. ↑ "Listplacering". Hitparad.se. Retrieved 8 February 2012.
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