According to the calender summer in Denmark starts on June 1'st. The meteorologists in Denmark defines a summerday as a day where the temperature reaches 25° C. This year it seems that these two definitions will meet about the 1'st of June. Climate scientists promises one of the warmest summers ever. Thinking of global heating it is not a good sign, but anyway we will enjoy a summer with lots of sunshine.

The poet Thøger Larsen wrote in 1923 his "Summersong" which today by most danes is better known as "Summer in Denmark, I love you". Perhaps most people hasn't given it a thought, but two of the verses testify that also in 1923 naturists enjoyed good weather on the beach...

Summer in Denmark

Summer of Denmark, I love you.
Though you have ever so often decieved me.
Now sea and land are bleak
Now naked girls on every beach
More, more, more
I love you yet each time you laugh

In you mind you are capricious
though deep within is pure gold
A fairytale is your happy name
And flowers shine from your bosom.
Corn, corn, corn
in dreams grow under the crescent moon.

When your waves washed over the shore
intoxicated blue like the gaze of goddesses
A youth sang with joy a paean to you
dressed only in sunshine and tanned skin.
Down, down, down
To baptism in oblivion and eternity.

And when you reached with open mind
the bright night into the sky
while it smelled of elder and hay
We prayed: Please never let the dream die
Alas, alas, alas
Our hearts swelled with faith and gratitude.

Summer of Denmark, take my greeting
You bright night and you bright day
You often pass coldly over the country
Yet I know you come back hot
Yes, yes, yes
Yet I know your heart is gold.

Thøger Larsen, 1923

Do you want to hear the melody? Then listen to the midi-file on "DanskeSange". On the same site you can also find accords if you want to play it yourself.