Työmiehen haudalla [English translation]

There's an empty croft, a "low hut"1

The grey logs miss their sculptor

Inside the strong scent of tobacco

It hosts the deeep silence alone

With willpower2 through the life

He cleared even the heaviest obstacles from his way

Father gave the most important advice

With your work you reclaim your own value

Didn't ask for much, didn't blame anyone

Kept sorrows inside him, learnt to endure the pain

The thanking songs don't ring, the lords don't fawn

It's very quiet on a workman's grave

But the powers of even a strong man will end

When the night of living sets to it's lands

A monument of an everyday hero

A wooden cross under a birch tree

Didn't ask for much, didn't blame anyone

Kept sorrows inside him, learnt to endure the pain

The thanking songs don't ring, the lords don't fawn

It's very quiet on a workman's grave

1. a phrase, like a "humble estate"2. sisu is willpower, especially of what is thought to be of Finnish kind. Some Finns prefer this word without a translate because iit can be seen that only Finnish people have the "sisu".

• Artist:Ruoska
• Album:Riisu