[Intro: solo kantele, then frame drum] [Spoken, low] Vaka vanha Väinämöinen... kuulkaa. Tulkohonpa kuulemahan. [Verse 1] On the stone of joy I settled, with the pike-bone harp in hand I called to all who'd never heard the songs of Kalev's land And from the forest, sea and sky they came to hear me play From more than forty lands they came, upon a single day [Pre-Chorus] Once the iron hail closed the roads Now the roads are full of hands [Chorus] Riemu riemulle! Joy upon joy in the hall! Riemu riemulle! Hands from forest and from shore! Jo kävi ilo ilolle, the kantele calls them all Kiitos teille, and the forges ring once more! [Verse 2] The fourteenth day of the tenth moon, the ledgers turned their page More boxes than in any day since twenty-ten's first age They took the M-one-thousands by the score, and Dragons, one and all The householder laughed: "Now put them all to work and flood the hall!" [Pre-Chorus] Once the iron hail closed the roads Now the roads are full of hands [Chorus] Riemu riemulle! Joy upon joy in the hall! Riemu riemulle! Hands from forest and from shore! Jo kävi ilo ilolle, the kantele calls them all Kiitos teille, and the forges ring once more! [Bridge: half-time, call and response] Seventeen-fifty? (Counted!) Two thousand? (Reached!) Five thousand a month? (Lit!) Eight thousand given away? (Given!) A hundred and fifty friends brought in by friends? (Here!) Who filled the hall? (You filled the hall!) [Verse 3] I opened up the aitta, two hundred forged once only Three terabytes in each, a trophy for the many The smith said "Light more forges now, the iron costs more dear" And the forges ring the louder, ringing because you are here [Final Chorus: key change, full choir] Riemu riemulle! Joy upon joy in the hall! Riemu riemulle! Hands from forest and from shore! Jo kävi ilo ilolle, the kantele calls them all Kiitos teille, and the forges ring once more! [Outro: kantele alone, spoken] Seitsemänsataa. Rautarakeet. Riemu riemulle. We are not going anywhere. Kiitos.
