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Tiet​ä​v​ä​inen (The Seer - Der Seher)

from Viena by Värttinä

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Music. L. Logrén - Lyrics. S. Aho

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Tietäväinen (The Seer)
engl. translation by Donald Adamson (with thanks also to Pekka Kytömäki)

The seer is brewing coffee.
She’s casting love spells:
maybe there’ll be good fortune,
the good luck that she sees in coffee grounds.

There’s much she can tell the young folk.
She can see what’s in store for them
when she stares, stares hard at the future.
She’ll reveal the secret soon.

The whole village is waiting to hear
who’ll be lucky this Whitsun.
Good news, will it be? Of love, maybe a wedding
in the family? This year, any year?

The seer is brewing coffee.
The local lads are waiting once again
to find out if happiness will be theirs
and if they’ll walk the lass they long for home.

The seer smiles silently,
she looks into the boy’s eyes, says nothing.
The grounds can stay in the cup now.
This time it seems the lad is lucky.

The whole village is waiting to hear
who’ll be lucky this Whitsun.
Good news, will it be? Of love, maybe a wedding
in the family? This year, any year?

Will there be wedding dances, wedding veils
in the summer? All those whispers
from the gossips, all those eager listeners.

Will there be wedding dances, wedding veils
in the summer? The seer knows
of the words heard in every generation:
the wedding vows, the same words, wedding vows.

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from Viena, released January 8, 2016

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