Lyrics to Evert Taube
·) (, 1890-, 1976) was a Swedish author, artist, composer and singer. He was born in Gothenburg, and brought up on the island of Vinga, Västergötland, where his father, Carl Gunnar Taube, a ship's captain, was the lighthouse keeper. His mother was Julia Sofia Jacobsdotter. In 1925, he married Astri Linnéa Mathilda Bergman, a painter and sculptress. He died in Stockholm and is buried on the graveyard of Maria Magdalena Church on Södermalm. Having spent two years (1907-1909) sailing around the Red Sea, Ceylon and South Africa, Taube began his career as a...Read more »
