Karjala takaisin [English translation]

Yo, yo

We got another moment at the top

Who cares if it was down to luck, we earned the gold medal1

The cars honk and the Finnish flags fly

For once everyone's raging with joy

Who cares if there's a depression, as long as we win

We make screaming calls to all our contacts

And we've never turned our coats

We've always been wrestling with the Swedes

Now the sun's finally shining here

I've never seen so many smiling Finns

A mastership for the young and the veterans

That night was epic

We'll reconquer Karelia2

Only for a moment, but anyways

We'll win, we'll reconquer Karelia

Oh yeah!

When a blue-and-white raises a glass on the town square3

He hugs his neighbour

Whom he hasn't greeted in sixteen years

The next day it's Saigon all over Finland

For a moment half of the population are my brothers

We've won conquests on wooden skis without ski wax

Though there may be chocolate inside the medal's gold wrapper

Let's play for the victory, not for ceded territories

Trees are not the only things we've brought down

Worked hard to give big things to a small people

Whatever your dialect may be, the feeling's the same

As if Karelia had been brought back to our Southern shore

We'll reconquer Karelia

Only for a moment, but anyways

We'll win, we'll reconquer Karelia

Oh yeah!

(JVG! JVG! JVG! JVG! JVG! JVG!)

I lost the marks4, despite doing my best

You can lose everything in a game

With grit we'll make that feeling rise for a moment, brother

We'll reconquer Karelia

Only for a moment, but anyways

We win, we'll reconquer Karelia (Oh yeah)

1. In 2019 Finland won the Ice Hockey World Championship2. Karelia is a region which Finland lost in WWII.3. When Finland won the Ice Hockey Championship, there were drunken parties in town squares.4. The "mark" was the Finnish currency before Finland joined the eurozone.

• Artist:JVG
• Album:jvg.fi