"Teddybjörnen Fredriksson" (''Fredriksson, the Teddy bear'') is a Swedish

children's song A children's song may be a nursery rhyme set to music, a song that children invent and share among themselves or a modern creation intended for entertainment, use in the home or education. Although children's songs have been recorded and studied ...

Lasse Berghagen Lars "Lasse" Nils Berghagen (born 13 May 1945) is a Sweden, Swedish singer, songwriter and actor. Berghagen is a well known singer-songwriter in Sweden. He released his first record in 1965, aged just 19. Four years later, in 1969, he released ...

who wrote it in 1969 for his 3-year-old daughter Malin. It's one of Berghagen's most famous songs. Many Swedish schools and pre-schools sing it and it has been voted as the most popular children's song. The song is about a person whose father gave him a

teddy bear A teddy bear is a stuffed toy in the form of a bear. Developed apparently simultaneously by toymakers Morris Michtom in the U.S. and Richard Steiff under his aunt Margarete Steiff's company in Germany in the early 20th century, the teddy bear, ...

as birthday present when he was four years old and when he was married and got a four-year-old daughter, he gave her a teddy bear, carrying a family tradition further. This song made Berghagen famous among children, and the real "Teddy bear Fredriksson" is locked in a booth at Leksaksmuseet in Stockholm. The song charted at '' Svensktoppen'' on 21–28 December 1969, with positions 9 and 10. A cover was made of the song by the swedish singer

Petra Marklund Petra Linnea Paula Marklund (; born 12 September 1984), known also by her previous stage name September, is a Swedish singer, songwriter, and television presenter. Marklund started recording in professional studios around the age of twelve, and f ...

for the scandinavium edition of the album Love CPR Carina Wessman recorded the song with lyrics in English by Björn Håkanson, as "Teddy Bears and Sunday School" on her 1980 album '' Don't Speak Bad About My Music''.

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