| abstract | - Sol och vår was Sweden's entry at the Eurovision Song Contest 1962 in Luxemboug, performed by Inger Berggren. The song is an up-tempo number in which Berggren recounts the sad tale of how she as a nineteen-year-old meets a charming man on the very first day of spring, as she is in town window shopping. The very good-looking and persuasive man invites her to have lunch at an expensive restaurant, to which she happily agrees. After a while the man tells her that he has to make an urgent telephone call - and shortly thereafter the head waiter informs her that her "husband" has left the restaurant, and he took "madam's purse and fur coat with him"; she has been "sun and spring"-ed by a con man. The lyrics end with the tragi-comic phrase; "when it's sun and spring all the little girls should be locked up....". In the final, the song was performed sixth, following Denmark and preceding Germany. The song received 4 points, placing seventh.
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