Matalan Torpan Balladi [English translation]

I was born in Finland

There in lovely Karelia ´

By a blue lake

In a low cottage

By the fireplace of the low cottage

I warmed my hands

The pretty girl of the low cottage

I wanted her to be mine.

On the fields of the low cottage

I ended up wandering there

The pretty girl of the cottage

I ended up tricking her

Nowhere can you find such clear water

As that of a forest spring

Nowhere can you find such a dear sweetheart

As someone else's leftovers

The station clock struck twelve times

And the train whistled

That's when the happy-go-lucky boy

Proposed to the cottage girl

The station clock struck three times

And the train left

That's when the happy-go-lucky boy

Abandoned the cottage girl

At the station bridge my sweetheart

Handed me a little letter

I guess the poor thing missed me

For she was crying quietly

• Artist:Olavi Virta