NÅ

When I wrote to Agnete, my friend of so many years, that I had been exposed to Danish and that I had discovered that there are two words that are used incessantly in my mothertongue..NEJ and NÅ...she informed me that there is a song in Danish, a cabaret song if you will, using the latter word in all its multiple meanings and thanks to modern technology, I found it on Youtube and listened to it and loved all over again.
The artist, a Miss Liva Weel, born in 1897 and making her debut at 18, is a treasure. By the time she hit fame but not necessarily fortune, she was a stout woman with a wonderful sensibility and unlimited capacity for making a song a special event. She died a pauper in a hospital and reading that I could not help but think of singers of today. Few have the talent she had but many, too many, have endless millions and will surely never be left to die in a public hospital.....talent lacking females like Britney Spears come to mind..but then it isn't the thing to make a song mean something anymore.
Oh gosh     I am such a dinosaur...