I Will Stand for a Child

 

I have written the words to the tune of the Finnish folk song "Niin minä neitonen sinulle laulan kuin omalle kullalleni." The song's name is impossible to translate literally, but it means, "I am singing to you, my young one (maiden), like you were my darling."

Verse 01

I'm singing from the bottom of my heart to make the world a peaceful heaven. Please, Mother Earth, release your angels from the woods we've fully disregarded.

Verse 02

Let your supernatural creatures tell us there is one unbiased God. He gives every living being a spirit and redeems it when the time's up.

Verse 03

Please give me a sign that it is the worst of sins to steal the life of a child so that I have the strength to defend God's gift whatever books are telling. 

 

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Tapio Rautavaara sings the folk song “Niin minä neitonen sinulle laulan”