Terve vaan ja onnea [English translation]

A skiing trip was headed to the remotest corners of Lapland

The president, with his spouse, was roasting in a sauna

When a cry for help reached the fells

And it took the parliamentarily chosen breath away

The train of world peace is leaving

Who is late from that, the president is no-good

So the Finland's Lion's ski flew on the open,

Every lost moment weakened our neutrality

"Don't you mess up, or they'll kill us",

The president cries out to the helicopter men

"If I don't make it to the train of peace in time

I'll screw up the line of Paasikivi and Kekkonen1"

But he doesn't make it in time, the train has gone

The fate of the people of Finland is very hopeless

Aa-ah, the potentates of the world decide together

To use their nuclear arsenal against bellicose Finland

"Wait up a bit boys, I'm just Mauno2

it's not nice to go to sauna in a bomb shelter"

Well the explanations didn't help

The Finns got roasted like rusks on oven trays

Didn't the geezer learn, that you don't fool around with the train of peace!

1. Both have been presidents of Finland.2. Mauno Koivisto was also a president.