Merry July to Everybody

I have heard that Finns are grave people who don’t know how to make fun, but let me show the other side of the coin.

The Merry July to Everybody looks like this:

The Funny Finnish Folk Song

Violinist Pekka Kuusisto brings his homeland to the Prinsengracht with the Finnish folk song ‘Piupali Paupali, Piupali Paupali’, where everyone can sing along.

Violist Pekka Kuusisto brengt zijn thuisland naar de Prinsengracht met het Finse volksliedje ‘Piupali Paupali, Piupali Paupali’, waarbij iedereen mag meezingen.

Piupali Paupali Music Sheet

Please enlarge the music sheet by clicking.

Hoedown feat J.Karjalainen & Dirk Powell – Piupali Paupali

And if you get wild, you can perform the song like this

J. Karjalainen sings the song.

My analysis of the song

If we look at our song a little more closely, I notice that it contains much more than what Pekka Kuusisto says in his introduction in…