Grål - deLillos

Vi hadde kjørt tredve mil i den gamle Cortinaen

Og Sod klaget som faen

Ikke no' å si på det

Basstromma på fanget knuste nesten kneet

Akkurat sånn er det i Canada

Sa Benny, han hadde sett et bilde i et blad

Javel sa vi vi humpet avsted

I tredve på en kjerrevei

Litt opp og ned

Da vi ankom snørra spurte vi noen folk

Jo Grål det er rett fram

Og Jonny var tolk

Vi slutta ikke å le

Før vi punkterte nære ved

I et gjørmehull i Tuftene

Omsider i en lysning inni skogen et sted

Der lå låven og et gammelt hus i le

Femti mil unna et menneske

Så her hadde han valgt å slå seg ned

Herregud besøk jublet Unni og Kjell

Som var vant til å være helt for seg selv

De disket opp og vi spiste og drakk

Det ble middag og kveld og Kjell ble skakk

Han løp ut i låven etter kontrabassen sin

Halte’n inn i stua den var like fin

Brølte: Nå er det bare å sette i gang

Og vi visste alle denne natta blir lang

Det stemte det jeg hadde mistanke om

De var uten inntekt og kassa var tom

Så det tok ikke no' tid å overtale dem

Om at jazzen va’kke død den var redningen

Så vi dro inn til byen for å tjene noen penger

Med kontrabass og Kjell plassert på en henger

Det var Benny på trommer og Sod på brett

Med Jonny på sax ble vi Gråls kvintett

Jeg hadde snakka med en kar han sa:

Jeg vet hva dere har

Dere var de største og bare dere tar

En session sammen og øver igjen

Er det ingen her som kan hamle opp med menn som dere

Han ordna fire jobber i København

To i Finland og to i Rotterdam

Vi spilte inn en plate drakk oss fulle hver kveld

Og alt var fryd og gammen sa Kjell

Han var lykkelig da jeg var lykkelig selv

Så lykkelig som et barn kan bli

Vi spilte rundt på klubber hele resten av det året

Og Jonny ble erstatta av en som het Kåre

Men en dag ble det stille vi så han felte en tåre

Det var det felles mavesåret

Senere forsvant Kjell nedi Oscarshamn

Med en Zulu-prinsesse uten navn

Og Sod ble innlagt han så syner han

Hadde drukket alt mulig bare aldri vann

Så Benny og jeg vi avlyste og dro

Tilbake til Oslo for å holde oss i ro

Men etter en stund var vi enige

Vi måtte se å samle noen musikere igjen

Igjen

We had driven thirty miles in the old Cortina

And Sod complained like hell

Not something to say about it

The bass drum on his lap almost broke his knee

That's just the way it is in Canada

Said Benny, he had seen a picture in a magazine

Well, we said we hopped off

Thirty on a cart road

A little up and down

When we arrived at Snørra we asked some people

Jo Grål it's straight ahead

And Jonny was the interpreter

We did not stop laughing

Before we punctured close by

In a mud hole in Tuftene

Finally in a clearing inside the forest somewhere

There lay the barn and an old house sheltering

Fifty miles away from a human

So here he had chosen to settle down

Oh my God, Unni and Kjell cheered

Who was used to being completely to himself

They washed up and we ate and drank

It was dinner and evening and Kjell was shaken

He ran out into the barn for his double bass

Halte’n into the living room it was just as nice

Roared: Now just get started

And we all knew this night was going to be long

That was what I suspected

They were without income and the coffers were empty

So it did not take long to persuade them

That jazz was dead was the rescue

So we went into town to make some money

With double bass and Kjell placed on a trailer

It was Benny on drums and Sod on board

With Jonny on sax, we became Grål's quintet

I had talked to a guy he said:

I know what you have

You were the greatest and only you take

A session together and practice again

Is there no one here who can catch up with men like you?

He arranged four jobs in Copenhagen

Two in Finland and two in Rotterdam

We recorded a record, got drunk every night

And everything was joy and the old man said Kjell

He was happy when I was happy myself

As happy as a child can be

We played around clubs all the rest of that year

And Jonny was replaced by someone named Kåre

But one day we were quiet so he shed a tear

It was the common stomach ulcer

Later, Kjell disappeared down Oscarshamn

With an unnamed Zulu princess

And Sod was admitted he so he sees

Had drunk everything possible just never water

So Benny and I we canceled and left

Back to Oslo to keep us calm

But after a while we agreed

We had to see to gather some musicians again

Again