--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.