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androl wrote:What's that?

http://dojo.fi/~rancid/loituma__.swf

COOL!!

Poutsi wrote:Here's the lyrics in Finnish and English:
http://lirama.net/song/107178/107369+107370

Can someone tell me what the're actually singing about? If there's a translation possible

A co-worker played this original song at work today, it was on repeat for several hours. For me, this link: http://lirama.net/song/107178/107369+107370 worked fine. If you have a crappy browser, like IE6 or Firefox, it just might not be capable of showing it.

Here's the translation to English:

The sound of a polka drifted from my neighbor's
and set my feet a-tapping oh!
Ieva's mother had her eye on her daughter but
Ieva she managed to fool her, you know.
'Cause who's going to listen to mother saying no
when we're all busy dancing to and fro!

Ieva was smiling, the fiddle it was wailing
as people crowded round to wish her luck.
Everyone was hot but it didn't seem to bother
the handsome young man, the dashing buck.
'Cause who's going to mind a drop of sweat
when he's all busy dancing to and fro!

Ieva's mother she shut herself away
in her own quiet room to hum a hymn.
Leaving our hero to have a spot of fun
in a neighbor's house when the lights are dim.
'Cause what does it matter what the old folks say
when you're all busy dancing to and fro!

When the music stopped then the real fun began
and that's when the laddie fooled around.
When he took her home, when the dancing was over
her mother angrily waiting they found.
But I said to her, Ieva, now don't you weep
and we'll soon be dancing to and fro!

I said to her mother now stop that noise
or I won't be responsible for what I do.
If you go quietly and stay in your room
you won't get hurt while your daughter I woo.
'Cause this fine laddie is a wild sort of guy
when he's all busy dancing to and fro!

One thing I tell you is you won't trap me,
no, you won't find me an easy catch.
Travel to the east and travel to the west but
Ieva and I are going to make a match.
'Cause this fine laddie ain't the bashful sort
when he's all busy dancing to and fro.

Link works fine now...

This is nice too:

It's a video of them, singing the same song

http://blogdon.net/2006/04/29/loituma-l ... lka-video/

Fons wrote:This is nice too:

It's a video of them, singing the same song

http://blogdon.net/2006/04/29/loituma-l ... lka-video/

OK, now this song is even longer stuck in my head

[quote="Viperazzi"]A co-worker played this original song at work today, it was on repeat for several hours. For me, this link: http://lirama.net/song/107178/107369+107370 worked fine. If you have a crappy browser, like IE6 or Firefox, it just might not be capable of showing it.
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But that must be a véry free translation then yes...cause there somewhere stands "kun tämä poika naapurissa" but i can't see a sentence with when this boy and neighbours somewhere And more things like that but still funny to see anyways, cause how they sing it doesn't actually sound finnish at all :O when i wouldn't have known some words, i definetly wouldn't have recognized it!

Check this out!

Zé da Silva wrote:Check this out!

I think the moon is not the only thing that is high in that song...

This is just great!: Now I can't get Levan Polkka out of my head!

today I saw a bus with the word OLMENA on it, so I had to think of Olen Omena

Funny, there is an English bustravel company called 'gta' and a Belgian called "de Zwerver Tours" which is like "homeless Tours" if you translate is to English

Here's Loituma! I wonder if they're gonna perform in the ESC '07 in Finland.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=yss9zTjlbXE&search=Loituma

And I also wonder if they know about this recent Internet phenomenon including their song...

http://swgalaxies.datastart.hu/modules/ ... oituma.swf

I am the monkey
http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/m ... ywhere.php