"Då lyser en sol" is a Swedish language

Swedish language

Swedish is a North Germanic language, spoken by approximately 10 million people, predominantly in Sweden and parts of Finland, especially along its coast and on the Åland islands. It is largely mutually intelligible with Norwegian and Danish...

 ballad

Ballad

A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music. Ballads were particularly characteristic of British and Irish popular poetry and song from the later medieval period until the 19th century and used extensively across Europe and later the Americas, Australia and North Africa. Many...

, written in 1981 by Lasse Holm

Lasse Holm

Lars-Eric Gustav "Lasse" Holm, born 9 December 1943 in Stockholm, Sweden, is known as a composer, lyricist and singer.Since childhood, he was interested in music and was a member of a lot of pop music and rock music groups in the 1960s: Doug and the Millsmen, The Spacemen and The Moonlighters...

. In 1981, Elisabeth Andreasson

Elisabeth Andreassen

Elisabeth Gunilla Andreassen - also known as just "Bettan" - is a Swedish-Norwegian singer who has finished both first and second in the Eurovision Song Contest....

 recorded the song. The song text is, in an astronomical

Astronomy

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 aspect, about the Sun

Sun

The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System. It is almost perfectly spherical and consists of hot plasma interwoven with magnetic fields...

 and what it the Sun means for the life

Life

Life is a characteristic that distinguishes objects that have signaling and self-sustaining processes from those that do not, either because such functions have ceased , or else because they lack such functions and are classified as inanimate...

 on Earth

Earth

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. The song text also describes how the dusk

Dusk

Dusk is the beginning of darkness in the evening, and occurs after twilight, when the sky generally remains bright and blue. Civil dusk is when the earth has rotated enough that the center of the sun is at 6° below the local horizon...

 falls and the night

Night

Night or nighttime is the period of time when the sun is below the horizon. This occurs after dusk. The opposite of night is day...

 arrives to the town

Town

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. But it's also a love

Love

Love is an emotion of strong affection and personal attachment. In philosophical context, love is a virtue representing all of human kindness, compassion, and affection. Love is central to many religions, as in the Christian phrase, "God is love" or Agape in the Canonical gospels...

 song about making a darling happy. The song is on the singer Elisabeth Andreassons

Elisabeth Andreassen

Elisabeth Gunilla Andreassen - also known as just "Bettan" - is a Swedish-Norwegian singer who has finished both first and second in the Eurovision Song Contest....

 1981 album

Album

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 "Angel of the Morning

Angel of the Morning (Elisabeth Andreassen album)

Angel of the Morning, released in 1981, is the debut album of Norwegian singer Elisabeth Andreassen, and the first of several solo albums. Previously, she sang with Mats Rådberg on his album I'm the Singer, You're the Song...

". The song has later been sung by many artists, sometimes with a changed text. In 1986 Trygve Hoff

Trygve Hoff

Trygve J. B. Hoff was a Norwegian businessman, writer and editor of the Farmand business magazine.Hoff is most well known for his role as editor of the Farmand in Norway until his death...

 wrote a Norwegian language

Norwegian language

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 text: Det skal lyse en sol, which Sissel Kyrkjebø

Sissel Kyrkjebø

Sissel Kyrkjebø , also simply known as Sissel, is a Norwegian soprano.Sissel is considered one of the world's top crossover sopranos. Sissel's musical style runs the gamut from pop recordings and folk songs, to classical vocals and operatic arias...

 sang. The Sissel Kyrkjebø version was on the Sveriges Radio

Sveriges Radio

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 hitlist Svensktoppen

Svensktoppen

Svensktoppen is a record chart at Sveriges Radio. Until January 2003, the songs had to be in the Swedish language. Svensktoppen has aired since 1962, except for the years 1982-1985. Svensktoppen airs once a week...

for 17 rounds, during the period 8 November 1987-6 March 1988, with 4th place as best result there.