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The Western Logger

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Now here is the logger from the Western thickets.
I have travelled wherever it should be.
I have visited Butten,1 St. Louis,
Red Lodge,2 Miami.
I have travelled sea and continent,
and the mountains of Alaska.
And everywhere rascal girls remember
the western loggers.
 
And a logger is a logger, and takes also a girlfriend,
for instance someone else's wife.
And his eyes do not get watery,
when he breaks up with them,3
for in Butten there is a rose and in St. Louis a star,
and in Alaska doves.
And everybody whispers,
"Have you seen the tramp from the West?"
 
Where there is a Mexican love and a Honolulu virgin,
and a Philippine yellow girl,
there the logger has been together with them,4
but had it been a dad's girl?3
Where is the tramp's darling?
The heart strikes fire,
So beautiful their hair is.
When you hear the song, you think it's a bird,
again she falls in love with Jukka5 from the West.
 
He has been to San Francisco and seen Oregon,
where there is summer as well as snowy mountains.
In Dakota6 he has threshed grain,7
in Palm Beach8 he has swum,
and has been good old as well as young.
But to make a house of a Redwood9 stump,
in that you can feel the joy of the day.
While the storms of the world lull us,
freedom will certainly win.
 
While the storms of the world lull us,
freedom will certainly win.
 
  • 1. Small mining city.
  • 2. Red Lodge, Montana.
  • 3. a. b. Unsure about this particular line.
  • 4. lit. there logger has been them in-the-middle-of
  • 5. A very common Finnish name, both in Finland and in the US at the time.
  • 6. He probably speak of The Dakotas (North Dakota and South Dakota) as one region.
  • 7. Literally, just "threshed," but "grain" has been included here to ease the understanding for English speakers.
  • 8. Palm Beach, Florida
  • 9. Family of trees, Sequoioideae; including the famous Sequoia and Sequoiadendron of Oregon and California, known for their age and size.
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Lännen Lokari

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Comments
Stacy SiivonenStacy Siivonen    Sun, 24/01/2021 - 17:02

"iistin likka" = girl from the East.
No doves in Alaska, snow buntings.
"Butte" instead of "Butten"?

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