LEAVINGS ORKESTERI: TEUVO MAANTEIDEN KUNINGAS - PORI KIRVATSIN JYTÄ 31.07.24
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- Опубліковано 6 лют 2025
- My hometown street was a sandy road
There I turned my Ford Anglia on its roof
The road sign was still twisted (by a steering error)
After flying through the glass from the front seat
I had been rolling along the verge
At the bottom of the ditch while spitting my teeth
I vomited blood and cried
On this face the scar would look good.
And teeth can be redone
But the driver's license and the plates of Anglia were taken away by the police
Police: hinders my hobby
I cherish my hopes of becoming a rally driver
There is no point in advising the heroic sons of mothers
You can't win a rally if you are afraid
At the finish line, we celebrate our winning son Teuvo
While looking for a car for the weekend
I borrowed our neighbours Ford Sierra
On the expressway, I collided with a truck
Maybe I crashed for the last time
Teuvo, pick us up
Teuvo, your Ford Anglia was sold
This is one of the national songs of modern Finland. The lyrics are superb. All Finns will already know them off by heart, but to my English viewers, here they are, but do put your coffee cup down first
My hometown street was a sandy road
There I turned my Ford Anglia on its roof
The road sign was still twisted (by a steering error)
After flying through the glass from the front seat
I had been rolling along the verge
At the bottom of the ditch while spitting my teeth
I vomited blood and cried
On this face the scar would look good.
And teeth can be redone
But the driver's license and the plates of Anglia were taken away by the police
Police: hinders my hobby
I cherish my hopes of becoming a rally driver
There is no point in advising the heroic sons of mothers
You can't win a rally if you are afraid
At the finish line, we celebrate our winning son Teuvo
While looking for a car for the weekend
I borrowed our neighbours Ford Sierra
On the expressway, I collided with a truck
Maybe I crashed for the last time
Teuvo, pick us up
Teuvo, your Ford Anglia was sold
Thanks Nigel...loved it. xxxx
Did you check out the lyrics?
Amazing Nigel, thank you for sharing and have a good and happy day 😊❤
Kiitos samoin, Maria
@@nigelwatson2750 kiitos ja ole hyvä Nigel, you are the most Welcome, I enjoy your videos,, thanks 😊🇬🇧❤🇫🇮
As a Swede living in the uk, I can soo relate to how you feel about Finland. The walk abouts are home from home. Now the sad part politics! Sweden have always been the arrogant dogooders in the north . I’ve lost faith with my own country but Finland! Why these insane outburst from presidents? Do they really feel so powerful by joining nato to pick a fight? It’s so sad to see how little people understand of previous history between our countries and Russia. Everything bad in the world today has USA government behind it.
"Tikapuut taivaaseen" and "Pohjois-Karjala" are also among their best ones.
Kyllää
Gösta was simply brilliant!
I'm so glad that I went to see them !
Their really good. Like a Finnish version of the Pixies. Mad lyrics, good musicianship. Big guy in the middle even looks like Black Francis.
The original band Leevi and the Leavings, whom made this song and 16 albums in total of great, legendary and timeless finnish pop rock was established even before the Pixies. Leevi and the Leavings was established 1978, the Pixies were established 8 years later in 1986. This band we saw in this video is Leavings orkesteri, a band that was formed by the former members of Leevi and the Leavings with some additional musicians in 2011, 8 years after the original singer and songwriter of Leevi and the Leavings, Gösta Sundqvist had died in 2003.
Leevi and the Leavings was and is a very popular and legendary band in Finland. They made amazing and catchy songs through out their recording career that like Nigel also says, are really a major part of the Finnish ethos.
The weirdest fact about the original band is that they became very popular, loved and well known in Finland even though they only played live one time during their whole career in 1981 in the national Eurovision song contest preliminary round in Finland.
Their songs really are that amazing, they achieved legendary status even without ever performing live after the one time they did.
@@-psykonaut- There should have been many more bands like Rammstein [ i'm a fan ] singing in there native tongue, and not just English. Leavings rock.
Great lyrics 😂
Agreed. Check this one out ua-cam.com/video/FZk_lkMbQ1U/v-deo.html
Thanks Nige. But Trump! 😆
Good comedy act - that's all.
With my extensive knowledge of Finnish language and culture I have been able to translate with great accuracy and without recourse to Google, Go Go Ducky or anything else:
This is what they are singing:
Pine tree in eternal sunlight,
I see your blonde plaits in the shimmer,
The reindeer says 'Love! Young love!'
Reindeer in the forest, running free,
Running free!
Pine tree!
Pine tree!
Pony trekking with reindeer!
Vodka in the sauna!
Pine tree! Pine tree!
Ancester with blonde plaits!
Just like you today!
Soul of ancester!
Soul! Vodka! Sauna!
Reindeer in the pine tree!
Soul of reindeer in summer midnight sun!
The Swedish are autistic,
The Russians are worse!
Nuclear antlers,
On Russian reindeer!
Running free!
Pine tree!
Midnight sunlight!
Ancesters,
Vodka!
Reindeer,
Souls throughout eternity,
Young love in the pine forest!
It's very difficult to get across the true meaning and the use of idiom might be a bit off but that's basically it.
Click on the video description to see the translation, but do put your coffee cup down first.
What?! 😂😂😂
@@nigelwatson2750I WAS NOT READY FOR THAT!
Missa on ABBA
Better lyrics than ABBA, surely!