Varpunen jouluaamuna

(An old and beloved Finnish Christmas carol composed by Otto Kotilainen 1913 to the poem by Zacharias Topelius, 1859)

The snow has covered the flowers in the valley,
the wave of the lake frozen in the winter cold.
A little sparrow, eaten it's summer food,
the wave of the lake frozen in the winter cold.

On the stairs of a little cottage sits a dear girl:
come, sparrow, happily, take a seed from me!
It is Christmas, my poor homeless sparrow,
come here happily, take a seed from me!

To the girl now happily flew the dear sparrow:
thankfully a seed I will take from you.
God will want to reward you one day.
Thankfully a seed I will take from you!

I am not, my child, a bird of this earth,
I am your little brother, I came from heaven.
The little seed, that you gave to the poor,
got your little brother from the land of angels.

Gone Lyrics
written and performed by Ioanna Gika

Dark the stars and dark the moon,
Hush the night and the morning loon,
Tell the horses and beat on your drum,
Gone their master, gone their son,

Dark the oceans, dark the sky,
Hush the whales and the ocean tide,
Tell the salt marsh and beat on your drum,
Gone their master, gone their son,

Dark to light and light to dark,
Three black carriages, three white carts,
What brings us together is what pulls us apart,
Gone our brother, gone our heart.
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