{{unreferenced, date=May 2018''Sang til Sandefjord'' was written to the town of
Sandefjord
Sandefjord () is a city and the most populous municipality in Vestfold og Telemark county, Norway. The municipality of Sandefjord was established on 1 January 1838. The municipality of Sandar was merged into Sandefjord on 1 January 1969. On 1 ...
by Thorleif Jacobsen in the 1930s. The original music was
composed
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by Baard Heradstveit. However, his
melody
A melody (from Greek language, Greek μελῳδία, ''melōidía'', "singing, chanting"), also tune, voice or line, is a Linearity#Music, linear succession of musical tones that the listener perceives as a single entity. In its most liter ...
was considered to be very difficult to sing. In order to revitalize the song, Rolf Hansen Stub composed an alternative melody in the early 1980s, which is the one in use today.
The melody has been played daily from the
carillon
A carillon ( , ) is a pitched percussion instrument that is played with a keyboard and consists of at least 23 cast-bronze bells. The bells are hung in fixed suspension and tuned in chromatic order so that they can be sounded harmoniou ...
Sandefjord, du by blandt alle
hvor vår vei så enn kan falle.
Deg vi elsker høyst i verden
i vårt liv og all vår ferden. :/: Vakre by ved fjordens bund
alltid ungdomsfrisk og sund. :/:
By med utferd, by med evne
til mot store mål å stevne.
By med fest og by med hygge
hvor vårt livsverk vi vil bygge. :/: Vinter, sommer, høst og vår
er du byen, byen vår. :/:
Fangstmann, se det når du kommer
hjem til Norges vår og sommer,
når du stevner inn ad fjorden
til den beste by på jorden. :/: Du er byen, byen vår
nu i dag og alle år. :/:
Sandefjord