Savonmuan Hilima [English translation]

(Are there any people going to Mikkeli? The train has just left!)

The train had just whistled out of Kouvola

and it chuffed towards Kuopio

I had time, so I stayed to talk with a girl

in the vestibule of the train/car1

The pearls were so shiny around that neck of hers

And that redness on her lips was natural

Chorus:

The weather was so beautiful

but more beautiful was Hilma

So sweetly did the tail of her skirt

flutter in the wind

Oh if only I could feel those

thousands of feelings

that then shifted in my soul

When the train arrived in the Kuopio station

we decided so

that we will meet in the park under a big birch

tomorrow evening

But Hilma, that Hilma, she didn't come

I was left to wait by myself

Chorus.

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