Joulukertomus [English translation]

It's again the yule eve, it shows from the almanac

It's snowing, perhaps it'll start to freeze the next night

Somewhere, a happy family opens their yule gifts,

we with just the wife listen silently to the quietness

I still remember how the yule songs rang here before

how the yule spruce with its candles created the yule atmosphere

Who can knock on the door on the yule evening?

Santa Claus hasn't visited as at all in years...

It wasn't Santa Claus, white-beard, old geezer

as our daughter with a child in her lap surprised us

You've lost weight, too fragile, yule's miracle

Did the falling star bring you here from the sky

Yule bells ring

Our little daughter couldn't yet be a mother

yet she brought us an infant at the coming of yule

This miraculous gift rescued yule

The old swinging horse can come out from the attic

It wasn't Santa Claus, white-beard, old geezer

as our daughter with a child in her lap surprised us

You've lost weight, too fragile, yule's miracle

Did the falling star bring you here from the sky

Yule bells ring!