page_title: Ge rum i Bröllopsgåln din hund!
section_title: Song
hierarchical_section_title: Ge rum i Bröllopsgåln din hund! / Song
caption_attribution_description: English: Music for Fredmans epistel no. 40, "Ge rum..." by Carl Michael Bellman, 1790, here in the 1920 Bonniers edition.
context_page_description: Ge rum i Bröllopsgåln din hund!, is one of the Swedish poet and performer Carl Michael Bellman's best-known and best-loved songs, from his 1790 collection, Fredman's Epistles, where it is No. 40. The song describes an utterly chaotic wedding at a venue with soldiers mixed up with musicians and the wedding-party; the chimney catches fire, and even the priest robs the collection.
  The epistle is subtitled "Angående Bröllopet hos Bensvarfvars".
context_section_description: The song has 9 verses, each of 14 lines. The verses have a complex pattern of stresses and rhyming pattern, ABCCABBDDEFFEE, contributing to the humorously chaotic effect. The music is in  time, and is marked Vivace. The Epistle is dated 10 October 1771. The source of the melody has not been identified.
  The song describes an utterly chaotic wedding at a venue with soldiers mixed up with musicians and the wedding-party; the chimney catches fire, and even the priest robs the collection.
caption: Bellman's musical score for the Epistle, here in the 1920 Bonniers edition
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