Vastarannan valssi [English translation]

Here you are not allowed to laugh at things that you can laugh about in other places

Also keep the sad things closely to yourself

Work and work and tight belts

and on Sundays a clean set of clothes

Rest and warm broth are the pastimes here

From the shores of Lake Kaajärvi

if only singing could be heard

The clouds cannot sink any lower here

But there really is no need to raise your eyes from the ground anyway

Rocks, stumps, swampy shores, boots up to their shafts in loam

But if men sit idle, who will work for the bread

From the shores of Lake Kaajärvi

if only singing could be heard

From time to time in the dark of the night the thoughts start to fly

How could one become a man enough to leave this place

Because here you are not allowed to laugh at things that you can laugh about in other places

and actually when you look more closely there really is nothing to laugh about here

From the shores of Lake Kaajärvi

if only singing could be heard

From the shores of Lake Kaajärvi

if only singing could be heard