Varttina (Finnish) --- "Oi Dai" with lyrics in English

[Michael Kelley]

I wish I was back home
In lands very own,

Oi Dai, lands very own
Back in lands very own.

A different song I'd do,
A different cuckoo call,

Oi Dai, a different coo
A different cuckoo call.

My spruces would hear all
And my pines tall heed me,

Oi Dai, and my pines tall
And my pines tall heed me.

But only strangers stand,
Nothing but foreign land,

Oi Dai, only foreign land,
Nothing but foreign land.

No bird my own flying,
Or a caw I know here,

Oi Dai, a caw of crow,
Nor a caw I know here.

Where will poor me yet be?
Lost is my flock of swans.

Oi Dai, my flock of swans,
Lost is my flock of swans.

Gone is my flock of geese,
Gone is my flock of geese.

Oi Dai, my flock of geese,
Gone is my flock of geese.


Go on would my bird song,
I'd sound a cuckoo call,

Oi Dai, I'd sound it on,
I'd sound a cuckoo call.