Värttinä Finnish/Karelian
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"Where are you going?" "Where am I going? - Sinä Petroskoi, minä Petroskoi - you Petroskoi, me Petroskoi." (then the fiddle) Petroskoi is the old name for Petrozavodsk, Äänislinna in Finnish, as all the land up to Lake Onega was occupied by Karelian Finns until the Slavs slowly took over control. The people living there have lost their language and many are trying to learn it again.
Eta Pravda: "Käytiinpä kerran Tuutarissa, siel' paistettiin emäkissa, Eta Pravda, Eta Pravda, Eta Pravda Sopila. Sit' siel' tuli jakajaiset, tuli sinne miehet sekä naiset, eta pravda, eta pravda, eta pravda sopila." Translation: once we went to Tuutari. (20 km southeast of St. Petersburg, in Inkeri) There they were roasting a mother cat. (In Russian: Eta Pravda) It's true, It's true, It's certainly true. Then they started to share the cat, the men came and women came..." The rest of the song states who got what of the cat depending on who they were or their behavior. Those who were foul mouthed got bare ribs. "Tuli kissaa jaketuks'" The refrain is in Russian; only in Russia do European people have to resort to eating their pet cats.
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