Ievan Polkka (Medieval Cover)

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This is the story of a lonely sheep who sneaks away to where everyone is dancing to a polka...
Enjoy in Medieval style!
Original: Ievan Polkka - Traditional Finnish song.

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[MiddleAgesMusic]

'Ievan Polkka' and many other folk songs are already available for streaming in the brand new 'Ice and Fire - Medieval Folk Collection' album!

[bernardrednix]

still waiting for medieval carameldasen

[harms]

For anyone wondering, this song is talking about a boy who takes a girl, Ieva, to a dance. Ieva's mother doesn't want her to go, but eventually, she and the boy sneak out. After the dancing, they hook up. They go back home and Ieva's mother is mad and Ieva starts crying. The song ends basically with the boy telling the mom he loves Ieva and will not give her up. I basically stole this comment from someone who basically stole this comment from another Ievan Polka video in which the comment writer basically stole the comment from another Ieva Polka video

[Alley]

As keeper o’ th’ local tavern, I oft hear th’ strange tales carried by wanderers who travel distant lands. I hath heard of recent a story from a lad who sailed to an isle in the distant eastern orient. The people thither spoke tales of a spectral bard with hair o’ blue who haunteth their townes at night with a leek in hande. ‘Tis said that the lady oft performs this very song.

[saucegodjon]

Imagine being a medieval lord and some traveling musicians come to your castle and play this absolute BANGER for you

[SohanDsouza]

When thy crops have failed, but for thy field of leeks.

[greenevvo]

Me realizing that the poisonous fruit from the new world, tomato was never poisonous.

[imthecoolestguyalive]

God, you cannot imagine, what a trip it was for six year-old me...
Back in, like, two thousand and six we were learning this song for, essentially, our kindergarten graduation. Not this revamp, and not the Hatsune Miku version. The original acapella thingy. So, after the kindergarten "graduation", and a few years into first grade, I would hum this song to myself. For years. So imagine my confusion, when a girl heard me humming it, and asked if I was a Vocaloid fan. It's been a downward spiral from there, and I am to this day tormented by people, insisting that this is a Japanese song, much like with Caramelldansen. Sigh.

[EmmanuelGoldsteinINGSOC]

So let me get that straight... you took the modern techno remix of an old Finnish Polka and essentially remixed it back into what it was originally?

[megakillerx]

What Swedish Crusaders first heard when stepping the heathen lands of Finland.

[المرتدالفخور]

Sounds like something you’d actually hear during the Middle Ages

[jcpennys]

A Scottish-ish remake of a Japanese remix of a Finnish folk song.

[spicyman]

"Doth thou know? There art a spirit of a girl, her hair long and blue. She spineth the leek to this very day."

[YuriDokiDoki]

When you're a Finnish peasant and you see a blue-haired girl dancing with a leek in the local tavern.

[blackknightz]

Why is that peasant dancing with a leek in both hands?

[lartisteautravail]

Whanne the only vegitable ye haves for thy soupe is leke

[renoloficial]

my son in a few years: hey dad what music did you listen to in your adolescence
Me: It's complicated...

[silverflight]

Some speak of a band of bards singing and laughing away in the fields.

Some speak of a quartet of singers in a far away tavern

Some speak of a lone blue haired girl with a leak dancing away while singing in the mystical forest.

Others speak of a man with a cat in a village drumming away.

[marielcarey]

Loituma: You took everything from me.

Miku: I don't even know you.

[rachelcape]

Original finnish lyrics: Nuapurista kuulu se polokan tahti
Jalakani pohjii kutkutti
Ievan äiti se tyttöösä vahti
Vaan kyllähän Ieva sen jutkutti,
Sillä ei meitä silloin kiellot haittaa
Kun myö tanssimme laiasta laitaan
Salivili hipput tupput täppyt
Äppyt tipput hilijalleen
Ievan suu oli vehnäsellä
Ko immeiset onnee toevotti
Peä oli märkänä jokaisella
Ja viulu se vinku ja voevotti
Ei tätä poikoo märkyys haittaa
Sillon ko laskoo laiasta laitaan
Salivili hipput tupput täppyt
Äppyt tipput hilijalleen
Ievan äiti se kammarissa
Virsiä veisata huijjuutti,
Kun tämä poika naapurissa
Ämmän tyttöä nuijjuutti
Eikä tätä poikoo ämmät haittaa
Sillon ko laskoo laiasta laitaan
Salivili hipput tupput täppyt
Äppyt tipput hilijalleen
Hilipati hilipati hilipati hillaa,
Hilipati hilipati hilipampaa
Jalituli jallaa talituli jallaa
Tilitali tilitali tilitantaa
Halituli jallaa tilituli tallaa
Tilitili tilitili tilitili tallaa
Halituli tilitali jallati jallan,
Tilitali talitali helevantaa
Rimpatirallaa ripirapirallaa
Rumpatiruppa ripirampuu
Jakkarittaa rippari lapalan
Tulituli lallan tipiran tuu
Jatsu tsappari dikkari dallan
Tittari tillan titstan dullaa,
Dipidapi dallaa ruppati rupiran
Kurikan kukka ja kirikan kuu
Ratsatsaa ja ripidabi dilla
Beritstan dillan dellan doo
A baribbattaa baribbariiba
Ribiribi distan dellan doo
Ja barillas dillan deia dooa
Daba daba daba daba daba duvja vuu
Baristal dillas dillan duu ba daga
Daiga daida duu duu deiga dou
Siellä oli lystiä soiton jäläkeen
Sain minä kerran sytkyyttee
Kottiin ko mäntii ni ämmä se riitelj
Ja Ieva jo alako nyyhkyytteek
Minä sanon Ievalle mitäpä se haittaa
Laskemma vielähi laiasta laitaa
Salivili hipput tupput täppyt
Äppyt tipput hilijalleen
Muorille sanon jotta tukkee suusi
En ruppee sun terveyttäs takkoomaa
Terveenä peäset ku korjoot luusi
Ja määt siitä murjuus makkoomaa
Ei tätä poikoo hellyys haittaa
Ko akkoja huhkii laiasta laitaan
Salivili hipput tupput täppyt
Äppyt tipput hilijalleen
Sen minä sanon jotta purra pittää
Ei mua niin voan nielasta
Suat männä ite vaikka lännestä ittään
Vaan minä en luovu Ievasta,
Sillä ei tätä poikoo kainous haittaa
Sillon ko tanssii laiasta laitaan
Salivili hipput tupput täppyt
Äppyt tipput hilijalleen
You’re welcome, and torilla tavataan!