Värttinä: Seelennikoi
This song was on the in the beginning album I at all bought, years ago. It's from Seleniko, released in 1993.
Video respectfulness of , who has lots more Värttinä posted, including some wonderful old performances.
The performance is a traditional bride's bewail. Here's the lyric, and a very rough metamorphosis.
Seelinnikoi
Miun sisoini somaiset,
neijot nuoret naapurista.
Noinko meitä narraeltiin
kosittiin kovasti koista.
Ennenkuin emoini antoi,
isoin lähteä lupasi.
Myö uskoimma uroja,
ottajia uottelimma.
Ai lole, ottajia,
ottajia uottelimma
mieli teki miehelähän,
riiuureisuille ruveta.
Ai ole reissulle,
riiuureissulle ruveta.
Vietiin neiti veikkolahan,
tytär toisille turuille
Akaks miut alennettiin,
orjaksi, osattmaksi.
Miesten metkut miellyttelin,
ukkoin oikut arvoelin
Ai lole arvoelin,
ukkoin oikut arvoelin
Passasin päivät parasta,
yöt olin osassa orvon
Ai lole yöt olin,
yöt olin osassa orvon.
Älkää työ typerät tytöt,
niin kuin mie typerä tyttö.
Niin kuin mie mokoma menin
eukon oppiin outoloille
Niin kun mie mokoma menin,
niin kun mie typerä tyttö.
Niin kun mie typerä tyttö,
niin kun mie mokoma menin.
Ai lole niin kun mie,
niin kun mie mokoma menin.
Ai lole niin kun mie,
niin kun mie mokoma menin
Ai lole niin kun mie,
niin kun mie typerä tyttö
Ai lole niin kun mie,
niin kun mie typerä tyttö
English translation:
My beautiful sisters
young neighberhood maidens
Are we so easily fooled?
Before my mother would fire me,
my father gave me permission to go not allowed,
And we believed the men,
waited for escorts.
I had a mind to conclude d communicate with a arrive at a man,
to go looking during a proposal.
I was taken to his farmstead,
to another catch.
I was subjugated as a spouse,
made a scullion, with nothing of my own.
I was discerning at pleasing the men,
anticipating their whims,
Did my best all day,
but it was my lot to be an orphan at tenebrousness.
vapid girls,
don’t do like I did,
Go to a strange place
to work for an superannuated crone,
don't be simple like me.
