9. Reppurin laulu
(Merikanto-Larson)

'Pedlar's Song.' One of the dearest folk songs to many Finns, which turns out not to be a folk song but by Oskar Merikanto (music) and Larin Kyösti (a.k.a Kyösti Larson) (lyrics). It's written in old carelian dialect which is quite hard to understand and I will not try to do a translation here, but it's a lament of a pedlar guy who wishes to be back on the area he was born at the Lake of Ladoga in Carelia, where there still are his mother and his loved one, where there are golden cuckoos, an accordion calls people together at the evenings and where you can hear the gentle sounds of kantele; but alas, he must be on the road... --Jore

A lovely little song in which the sound of the music tells you someone is sad and would rather be somewhere else. 'Death Of A Salesman' for 18th century pedlars. --Davy

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1. Luadogan meren randamil
mie kazvoin kaugopriha,
siel mie paimoivirzie lauloin,
nyt eis on mieron piha.
Karjalan mail kuldakägözet kukkuu,
kirikön ristat kiildelöö,
taljankka illoin tantshuloih kutshuu,
kannel hembieh helisöö.

2. Siel on kallis kandajain,
siel mielitiettoni tshoma,
kyläh kegri-illatsuis on
mutshoi otettu oma.
Karjalan mail kuldakägözet kukkuu,
kirikön ristat kiildelöö,
taljankka illoin tantshuloih kutshuu,
kannel hembieh helisöö.

3. Kierdelin da kierdelin,
on selga sumptshan painos.
Mieroh matkamielenibä
Omah kodih on ainos.
Karjalan mail kuldakägözet kukkuu,
kirikön ristat kiildelöö,
taljankka illoin tantshuloih kutshuu,
kannel hembieh helisöö.