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--from the Walter Ehresman album "The Feral Rugby Team Must GO!" (2003).

Purchase download of whole album here: walterehresman.bandcamp.com/album/the-feral-rugby-team-must-go

See the video here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOc7EIbIiAg

Ehresman (in 2003) relates the international diplomacy that led to the creation of this track:

"Not long ago, someone e-mailed me a link to an intriguing website: www.ladonia.org. I was fascinated by the ideas found there (to whit):

--Ladonia is a new-ish nation, seized from Sweden in 1980 along the rocky south shore by an absurdist collective of anarchists and artists. After the seizure, three large structures were erected on the site.

--Omfalos was a one-ton monument constructed by Ladonians to mark the center of the world, named after a pillar at Delphi in ancient Greece. After a lengthy court battle the Swedish government ordered its removal and, upon hearing that the artist was going to blow it up with dynamite on the 100th anniversary of the Nobel Prize (a fine provocative gesture, to be sure, given what Mr. Nobel is most known for.....), a Swedish navy crane boat snuck into shore in the wee hours of the day before the explosion and removed Omfalos. It now resides in the Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm.

-the remaining structures in Ladonia now are Nimis and Arx, which remain proudly standing.

-the capital of Ladonia is Wotan City.

-the only word in the language of Ladonia is "waaaall." Its meaning is obscure.

-the currency of Ladonia is the "oertug"

After reading all this, I contacted the Lardonian Sec. of State of and offered to write a SLNA (Slightly Longer National Anthem) if they'd make me a minister in the cabinet (the existing national anthem was the sound of a stone being thrown in the water). Upon the completion of this anthem, I was named Minister of Dubious Anthems for the great nation of Ladonia. Musically, I am excited about this song because I got to dust off the old beer bong from my bachelor party in '93 and use it for the intro, plus I got to insert many hand-farts through a delay box for the outro, which I have to say is a first for me in using that particular studio technique."

NOTE: Some years later, Ehresman was elevated to the title of Eternal Minister of Chilis and Dubious Anthems by the government of Ladonia.

lyrics

Ladonia--For Thee I Fling
(© 2002 Walter Ehresman)

Waaaall!

My spleen yearns for Wotan City;
My spleen yearns for Wotan City;
Omfalos esta' kaput;
Nimis, Arx endure!

My liver calls to Wotan City;
My liver calls to Wotan City;
Omfalos esta' kaput;
Nimis, Arx endure!

Omfalos.....
No oertug at the center of the world;
Omfalos.....

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from The Best of​.​.​.​.​.​.​.​Electronic Rockers, track released August 1, 2003
--Walter Ehresman: Ladonian vocals, beer bong, keyboards & key percussion, groove box programming, hand-farting, ministerial gravitas.

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Called "the quintessential Austin DIY artist" by famed local disc jockey Charlie Martin , Walter Ehresman was an eccentric presence in the Austin music scene from the '80s until his 2015 move to Mexico. A prolific songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and recording artist...and a restless musical spirit, always looking for something new, expressed with fearlessly honest, socially-conscious lyrics. ... more

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