1. A Saturday evening brings various birch smells,
Feels your flushing face each and every their kiss,
And Sunday, born deep in your soul, just to you tells
That cuckoos afar are extolling your bliss.
Refrain A.
Oh spin her, and make her fly, that flaxen-haired lass
Whose eyes are emitting around flashes bright.
No place in the world ever made you so headless
Like this field of Saaremaa on a June night.
2. A bird-cherry, white in the twilight of snowing,
Is full of gay nightingales only for you.
Why else would your lips and your face sweetly glowing
Seem so much alike to an apple bloom true?
Refrain A.
3. Oh dews aromatic on Saaremaa grasses!
A mead in the silence is humming its song…
Above you each luminous cloud gently passes –
You feel the first taste of a kissing so long!..
Refrain A.
4. A feast in the hayfield... We are all delighted!
The twilight compounds with the dawn an alloy…
Our thoughts and our deeds are together united
By this summer day, full of chanting and joy.
Refrain B.
Oh golden star soldier, both youngish and headless!
While hearing a cuckoos mysterious tale,
You can’t chase and capture her, that flaxen-haired lass,
This night quickly throwing away its light veil.
One of the most popular Estonian songs. Music by Raimond Valgre. Lyrics by Debora Vaarandi. Translated by Basil Bucolic.
The audio recordings performed by Basil Bilocerkivsky (Bucolic):
In Estonian - https://soundcloud.com/basil-bucolic/the-saaremaa-waltz-original-estonian-version
In English - https://soundcloud.com/basil-bucolic/the-saaremaa-waltz-english-version