This song is very strongly influenced by a poem called "Metsän poika" written by a Finnish author Aleksis Kivi. It goes something like this: "Metsän poika tahdon olla, sankar' jylhän kuusiston." = "I want to be the son of the forest, the hero of the mighty spruce woods".
This song is very strongly influenced by a poem called "Metsän poika" written by a Finnish author Aleksis Kivi. It goes something like this: "Metsän poika tahdon olla, sankar' jylhän kuusiston." = "I want to be the son of the forest, the hero of the mighty spruce woods".