En kort text på engelska hämtad från Projekt Runeberg

Birger Sjöberg was born in 1885 in Vänersborg, a nice little town in west Sweden, and died in 1929 in Växjö. He worked as a hardware store assistant from 1902 to 1906, as a journalist for Stockholms-Tidningen 1906 to 1907, and then for Helsingborgs-Posten, where he was an editor secretary in 1909. Playing the guitar and singing his own songs, he went touring in 1923. In 1926 he left his job at the newspaper.