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Pursi - The Rowing Song
05:15
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(English translation from Finnish):
So I row my father’s boat
As if flying a leaf
I’m rowing a strange boat
Oh brother, my brother
Oh sister, my sister
There the wind was lulling
The sea-wave stirred
I know the wind, I know the calm
Oh yes, myself I know them
I am in a strange country
Suddenly among strange doorways
I climbed a rock
To feel every wind,
To know the sky
Oh sea, carry my little boat
In your arms carry it
Rock it gently
Rock it gently
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(English translation of the Finnish lyrics)
Cradle, oh wind
My little boat
So that sorrow will depart
Far from my heart
Cradle it thither
To where the storm is
To where the waves are roaring
And there is no land to see
I’ll tell how I was
Betrayed by my sweetheart
And how the sorrow filled
My heart for ever
If love was not
Created at all
So many a young maiden
Could feel peace in her heart
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Rauta - Iron
03:15
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Poor iron, poor iron
You were not so mighty
When you lay as milk
In a young maiden’s breasts
Poor iron, poor iron
You were not so mighty
When you were taken from the moss
Taken from the moss
Iron would not be so bad
If not for the snakes
And yellow ant’s poison
Mixed with iron’s seeds
From that iron became graceless
Wanting to bite its smith
And eat even the innocent
Eat the innocent
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(English translation of Finnish lyrics)
The American land, it’s a warm land
And Finland is chilling cold
Do you still walk those cold roads?
I have already moved onward to other lands
The land of America, it’s a wide land
And maiden-Finland is rather skinny
I need to roam the wide roads
So I might never return home
And my steps are taking me forward
Even though I’m heading to the edge of the world
You’ll recognise the real wanderer
With a backpack that’s not too heavy
I roam other lands
I roam other lands
You may go beside me
If your legs still carry you
Will I still be beside you tomorrow?
That is a promise I cannot give
To the shore of the sky I’m roaming
To the horizon I’m carrying the burden
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(English translation of Finnish lyrics)
I thought it was the wind coming
The stormy wind blowing
Who are those people coming
In the straits of Germany?
Who are those people coming
In the straits of Germany?
The people are the bridegroom’s people
The people are the bridegroom’s people
How did you know them as his?
I know from the wood, I know from the land
I know from the strange branch
Take your steps, bridegroom’s stallion
Along the golden lane
Take your steps, bridegroom’s stallion
Along the silvery road
Six are the golden cuckoos
Cuckooing on the bow shaft
Two are the thrushes of the shore
Singing on the horse harness
Seven are the blue creatures
Standing on its collar
Step carefully
The bridegroom will not step inside the cottage
Without touching the door
The bridegroom will not step inside the cottage
Without breaking the back wall
Without touching the front wall
Without moving the side wall
The front wall is wolverine-boned
The corner wall duck-boned
The back wall deer-boned
The side wall bunting-boned
Step carefully
And the bridegroom came into the cottage
Without touching the door
And the bridegroom came into the cottage
Without needing to make the door higher
Without breaking the back wall
Without moving the side wall
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Kazvatti – Four Sorrows
03:19
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(English translation of Karelian lyrics)
My mother raised me
I got to sit in the garden
Sit in the garden, yes
Drinking lemonade
There came bridegrooms
From a strange country
I did not want to go
But my mother gave me
When living abroad
I have four sorrows
One sorrow is
The sisters of the husband
The second sorrow is
The mother-in-law
The third sorrow is
The alcoholic husband
The fourth sorrow is
To live abroad.
Oh swallow, dear bird
Take me to my own land
Take me to the garden
Mother of mine raised me
Mother of mine raised me, yes
Gave me lemonade to drink
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I forgot all joy
Stopped singing all the songs
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Andrew Cronshaw London, UK
Andrew Cronshaw is a British multi-instrumentalist and producer, soloist and also leader of the Finnish/Armenian/British band SANS, who also has a long career as a writer on roots musics, particularly those of the Nordic, Baltic, eastern and central European and Iberian regions, for fRoots, The Rough Guide to World Music etc. ... more
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