Loituma website: www.loituma.fi.

There is an extra letter L in about 6:10. I'm sorry about this!

Dear all! So many of you have told me that you want to learn Finnish or that you have already learned this song in Finnish. It's an honour to me, and to help you with your aims I decided to make some new videos. This is the first clip in a series of tutorial videos for learning Ieva's polka in Finnish. I hope you find it useful! I will make a similar clip for every verse.

The language in this song is not literary language, but the Eastern dialect from Savo district. So this is not the kind of language you would learn in "Finnish for beginners" course. :)

I have made the whole thing by myself and I'm aware of the fact, that it's not professional quality in any way. But I'm learning new things all the time and hope you are too. Have fun and let me know how you are doing with your Finnish studies! :)

EDIT!
OK, here's the story of the first verse. My translations are not exhaustive, but give a rough idea of the meaning of the words. The text is written in dialect, so there are words that can't be translated unambiguously. But I hope you get the idea of the story, which is told in a humorous and down to earth style. Lyrics by Eino Kettunen.

FIRST VERSE:
There is a dancing night going on in a barn in a small village. The boy hears the drifting sound of polka and he wants to go dancing. Now, Ieva is the one he wants to take dancing, but her mother is keeping an eye on Ieva. She fools her and gets to dance with our lad anyway. The boy says that Ieva and he just ignore restrictions and they dance from one side of the dance floor to the other. Probably for hours. :) Then comes the chorus which doesn't mean anything except the last word would be something like slowly or little by little.

5:50 The whole verse

Music: Traditional
Lyrics: Eino Kettunen
Arrangement & new lyric parts by LOITUMA (Hanni Autere, Sari Kauranen, Anita LehtolaTollin, Timo Väänänen)
Publisher: Warner Chappell Music Finland

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