Fru Robertsson

Ingemar wrote both words and music in 2018, especially for this record. The challenge was to build a melody on the same chords as the English-language song that opened the LP “Livs levande” in 1970. The first idea was to translate Paul Simon’s “Mrs Robinson” into Swedish, staying as close to the original thought as possible. When the Swedish publisher would not allow it, Ingemar instead wrote an entirely new song about an imagined childhood friend, someone life has knocked about and who carries her secrets.

The whole album is Janne Schaffer’s debut as a studio musician, and this track is dominated by his electric guitars and his ideas. Ingemar doubles some of the bass lines on piano. It is all reinforced now, 49 years later, by Frank Ådahl’s backing vocals.