SWEDEN has won the 2023 Eurovision song contest and will host in 2024. That co-inside with the 50th anniversary of them winning in 1974 with ABBA.

For the next 50 days ESC Covers will post one song a day which is a Swedish song, either an actual entry, a selection song, or a song by a Eurovision artist covered in South Arica, either in Afrikaans or English.

Song 11 is a Swedish selection song from 2008. It is called TAKE MY BODY CLOSE and was performed by VELVET.

DAVID FOURIE covered it in Afrikaans as AS EK RAAK AAN JOU LYF.