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Finnish
Original lyrics
Punaorvon vala
On luonto jyljä, rajumyrskyt pauhaa
ja niin synkkä on toiveitteni maa
Nyt ryöstettynä ompi multa kaikki,
tätä kurjuutta kärsiä mä saan
Oli mulla ennen pieni kaunis koti,
jossa vanhempani mua hoiteli
Siellä äiti pikkusiskoani
kehdossansa hellin tuuditti
Mutta pommitus sen multa poies ryösti,
rajumyrskyt kaatoivat mun kotini
Lahtareitten luodit isän hengen riisti,
murhe hautaan vei mun rakkaan äitini
Mun isäin lepää sorakuopass' tuolla,
hän on tutkimatta teloitettuna
Ja äitiraukka nukkuu nurmen alla,
rauhallisna uinuu viime untansa
Heidän haudallensa istutan mä ruusun,
ja sen kostutan mä kyynelilläni
Sitä ruusua ei sortovalta kaada,
sen puolest' annan vaikka henkeni
Kerran vielä tulee toisenlainen aika,
kerran sortovalta vahva lannistuu
Kansa sorrettu rivinsä kun nostaa,
lahtarit ne silloin kauhistuu
Silloin köyhä kansa niiltä vallan ottaa,
silloin uusi aika koittaa työläisten
Silloin poistamme me sortovallan kahleet
ja punaorvon valan vannomme!
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Translation
The Oath of a Red Orphan
The nature is rugged, great storms bluster
and the land of my hopes is so gloomy.
Now I have been robbed of everything,
I have to suffer this misery.
I used to have a small, beautiful home,
where my parents took care of me.
There my mother
gently cradled my little sister.
But a bombing stole it all from me,
great storms pushed down my home.
The butchers'1 bullets took my father's life,
and grief took my dear mother to her grave.
My father rests in a gravel pit somewhere out there,
he was executed without a trial.
And my poor mother is sleeping under the grass,
peacefully having her last dream.
I shall plant a rose on their graves,
and moisten it with my tears.
That rose will not be pushed down by tyranny,
I would even give my life for that.
Once there will be a different era,
once the strong tyranny will be brought down.
When the oppressed people will rise again,
the butchers shall be terrified.
That is when the poor people will take over,
that is when a new era of workers will dawn.
That is when we shall remove the chains of oppression
and vow the oath of a Red orphan!
- 1. Lahtari is a term the Reds used about the Whites. It cannot be translated, but butcher is close enough.
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