Vihreän joen rannalla [English translation]

I am sitting in a rocking chair

and remembering you

With the dull skates of my memory

I am skating to you

Into that summer which turned to autumn

A long, long time ago

And to my own figure languishing

In the burning of first love

There by the green river

Telling about my love

I said that the flowers ain't blooming in vain

Now we'll pick up our first one

Where have you been all these years

Have you remembered how I loved you then

When our path led to the river and to the river I said: hey

Where are you going, where did you take the tears

That I cried a long time ago

When I am walking alone along your shore, hey hey

A salty tear in my eye

I guess my memory brought it

When always in my memories

I lay down next to you

There by the green river

Telling about my love

I said that the flowers ain't blooming in vain

Now we'll pick up

our first one

Where have you been all these years

Have you remembered how I loved you then

When our path led to the river

and to the river I said hey, where are you going,

where did you take the tears

That I cried a long time ago

When I am walking alone along your shore, hey hey