Värttinä - Emoni ennen

very beautiful song "a capella", only singing without instruments

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Music

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• Värttinä
• Finland

[TAKENnameARGH]

So sang my mother before (in the old days)

So sang many before and my mother (too)

Sang a maiden to a child

Sang with skill

Sing while you are alone, while your man is elsewhere

Sing maiden, when you are young. You'll get worry about men later.

Song others, please. Im too tired. And it's not worthy singing to THESE boys. (Hehe)

Translating is pretty fun. :D

[sfoez]

it's beautiful! Also with the background.. lots of singers!

[EneriGiilaan]

@brendanmcooney They seem to have changed their activities to Facebook, but the lyrics (and translations) can still be found in their (old) web page:

varttina . com (without the spaced)

select: "Discography"

select: "Kokko (1996)"

select: "lyrics page" (at the bottom of the page)

Lyrics for "Emoni ennen" are the last entry.

HTH

HTH

[brendanmcooney]

anyone able to provide the words (not the translation) to this?

[EitherEndofAugust]

@jozco Many songs do sound even better with tabla. Hope you're having fun.

[kranionable1]

Афигенна девки пляшут)

[jozco]

i will accompany this song with tabla! :D

[Subspindle]

Yes, but the verb 'maksaa' = cost, as in 'This T shirt costs 10 euros', is a homonym, looks completely same while it's a different word. Here it means 'isn't worth the trouble'.

[cornemusa]

I like cattle. They swell me.

[Kickingit06]

I can't support cattle on stage

[socooldogs1]

so doesint maksa mean liver?

[Flylittle]

Varttina rocks !!

They are so cool and funny... I´ve seen them twice performing live and must say that they´re amazing.

This choral version is really wonderful. Only voices and - Tachan !!... What a miracle !!

I´m a member of a little choir and one of my crazy dreams is to sing this with them, but now they´re complaining about a little german, so I´m afraid that lightspeed finnish is going to be too much for them, lol.

But I´m still a great daydreamer soooooo....