- Year of composition: Dated 9 May 1923
- Work category: Mixed choir a cappella
- Text author: Herding song
- Dedication: To Leksands hembygdskör
- Arrangement/revision: Arranged for soprano solo and mixed choir by Hugo Alfvén in 1923
- Duration: 2 min
- Detailed duration: 1,5 minutes
Solo voices/choir
Soprano solo (alt. the entire soprano part), A.T.B.
Examples of printed editions
Folkkörboken, part 1, no. 15. EC 411, 1923
- Location autograph: Uppsala Universitetsbibliotek
- Possible call no. and autograph comment: UUB VMhs 185:23
Literature
Ternhag, Gunnar: Folkvisearrangemangen, in Hugo Alfvén − en vägvisare. Hedemora (2003) pp. 156−166.
Description of work
F minor 2/4
Work comment
Limu, limu, lima is a well-known little herding song, well known also when Hugo Alfvén wrote his arrangement for soprano soloist and mixed choir in 1923. He dedicated it to the Leksand Home …
Libretto/text
Limu, limu lima, Gud låt solen skina
över bergena blå, över kullorna små,
som i skogen ska’ gå om sommaren.
In English:
Limu, limu, lima
Lord, may sunshine glimmer,
o'er the mountains so blue,
o'er the …