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The Heikki Lunta Snow Dance Song by David Riutta
Heikki Lunta, Go Away by David Riutta
“Guess Who’s Coming?” by Conga Se Menne
“Look Who’s Sitting (in the Sauna)” by Conga Se Menne
Make it Snow by Conga Se Menne
The Heikki Lunta Snow Dance Song
Written by David Riutta
(P) 1970 WMPL Radio
Hancock, Michigan
Here it is, ladies and gentlemen! The original “Heikki Lunta Snow Dance Song!”
Now I’ll sing my song
To make the snow come down
And I’ll do my snow dance
Whoops! I almost lost my pants
I’ll holler and yell,
And really give it---
It’s Heikki’s snow dance song,
Heikki’s snow dance song
We gotta have some snow by the 4th of December
“Heikki Lunta, make it snow!” say all the Range Club members
The races are only three weeks away
And if I don’t make it snow, I’ll go back to making hay
It’s Heikki Lunta’s snow dance song,
Heikki Lunta’s snow dance song.
Snow, snow, snow!
Now I’ll dance some more,
And I’ll really know the score
How to make it snow,
Come on, man, go, go, go!
Don’t even slow down
till the snow starts falling down
It’s Heikki Lunta’s snow dance song,
Heikki Lunta’s snow dance song.
Snow, snow, come on, snow!
Heikki Lunta, Go Away
Written by David Riutta
(P) 1970 WMPL Radio
Hancock, Michigan
Oh, I sang my song,
And I made the snow come down
And I did my dance,
Now I’m gonna lose my pants
If I don’t make it stop-
Look out! Here comes a snowball filled wit’ rocks!
Heikki Lunta, Go Away,
That’s all I hear them say.
I didn’t expect this lot,
I’m so fright’d to my you-know-what
And I’m really in a jam
Things really got out o’ hand
And they’re throwing beer cans
And they swear and I hear them say,
Heikki Lunta, go away,
Heikki Lunta, go away.
So I really overdid it
And I can’t make it stop
Look out, here comes another snowball-
Really filled with big rocks!
Heikki Lunta, go away,
Heikki Lunta, go away.
I’d do a little bragging,
If the roof on my shack weren’t sagging,
Next time my dance won’t be free,
There’ll be a two-dollar fee
They won’t hire me for nothing
It ain’t working, all the kicking and punching!
Heikki Lunta, go away,
Heikki Lunta, go away.
Heikki Lunta, go away, go away, go away!
Heikki Lunta
Written by Jim DeCaire and Joe Potila
Performed by Da Yoopers
Yoopy do Wah
(Also featured on: Diehards II)
(P) Yah Hey Music 1991
I remember back in ’58 when I was a lad,
I went up to the Copper Country hunting with my dad
The ground was bare and frozen so we couldn’t track no deer
So my old man got his knapsack out and filled it up with beer
He said we gotta take a hike way out into the woods
There’s this guy named Heikki Lunta, he’s crazy, but he’s good
We’ll let him drink a couple beers and when he starts to glow
He’ll do the Heikki Lunta dance and then watch it snow
Dance, dance, dance, Heikki Lunta, dance
Make it snow, snow, snow, Heikki Lunta, snow
Dance, dance, dance, Heikki Lunta, dance
I remember Christmas Eve fifteen years ago
All the kids were crying; they didn’t have no snow
According to the weatherman, they didn’t have a chance
The weatherman don’t know about the Heikki Lunta dance
Heikki put his snowshoes on and grabbed a can of beer
Put on his giant partridge wings and antlers from a deer
Then he grabbed a cedar branch and danced around the yard
Everybody said they never seen it snow so hard
Dance, dance, dance, Heikki Lunta, dance
Make it snow, snow, snow, Heikki Lunta, snow
Dance, dance, dance, Heikki Lunta, dance
I recall a tournament out at Suicide
All the snow was melting and we couldn’t get a ride
One crazy Finn came down the hill and landed on the rocks
They sent him back to Finland in a homemade cedar box
We looked for Heikki Lunta but he was nowhere to be found
We couldn’t do no jumping with no snow on the ground
It was Carl Pellonpaa who finally saved the day
We did the Heikki Lunta dance, I think it snowed till May
Dance, dance, dance, Heikki Lunta, dance,
Make it snow, snow, snow, Heikki Lunta, snow
Dance, dance, dance, Heikki Lunta, dance
“Guess Who’s Coming?”
Written by Derrell Syria
Performed by Conga Se Menne
Finnish Reggae…and Other Sauna Beats
1994 Conga Records, Negaunee, Michigan
Guess who’s coming to sauna? Heikki Lunta
Guess who’s coming to sauna? Heikki Lunta
He’s got some Oulu Hotshots tapes
We get down to the raatikka aerobica
We suck down the ice cold beers
Fill our guts full of makaraa
Guess who’s coming to sauna? Heikki Lunta
Guess who’s coming to sauna? Heikki Lunta
He brings his wife, Aili
And a friend for me
We sing songs from Da Yoopers
Pass the viilia, please
Guess who’s coming to sauna? Heikki Lunta
Guess who’s coming to sauna? Heikki Lunta
He’s an old-time U.P. man
He peels the pulp with his bare hands
He’s willing to share his Trenary Toast
He’s a hardtack man from the Ontonagon coast
Guess who’s coming to sauna? Heikki Lunta
Guess who’s coming to sauna? Heikki Lunta
[saxophone solo]
He’s an old-time U.P. man
He peels the pulp with his bare hands
He’s willing to share his Trenary Toast
He’s a hardtack man from the Ontonagon coast
Guess who’s coming to sauna? Heikki Lunta
Guess who’s coming to sauna? Heikki Lunta
“Look Who’s Sitting (in the Sauna)”
Written by Derrell Syria
Performed by Conga Se Menne
Land of the Conga Boys
1996 Conga Records
Look who’s sitting in the sauna- Heikki Lunta
Look who’s steaming up the window- Heikki Lunta
Look who’s drinking all the kalja- Heikki Lunta
Look who’s stoking up the woodstove- Heikki Lunta
Lace up the stompers
Strap on the snowshoes
Do a little snowdance
Sing a Finn reggae, mon.
Suck down a cool one
Shoot it with a shotgun
Shaking on a git box
Jamming on a steel drum
Look who’s sitting in the sauna- Heikki Lunta
Look who’s steaming up the window- Heikki Lunta
Look who’s drinking all the kalja- Heikki Lunta
Look who’s stoking up the woodstove- Heikki Lunta
Back from vacation
Been to Jamaica
Throw away the coconut
Eat the kalamojakka
Pray for the snowstorm
Heikki Lunta samba
Sweating in the sauna
Do the reggae rumba
(chorus)
Make It Snow
By Derrell Syria
Performed by Conga Se Menne
On the album, Living Inna Northern Paradise.
Copyright 2001 Porky Pine Records.
Make it snow, make it snow.
Come on, Heikki Lunta, do a little dance in the ten below.
Miss La Niña, let the cold wind blow.
Together with Heikki Lunta, lay down a blanket white with snow.
Firelight fishing chanting for winter.
Come on, Heikki, ready to go.
Time to scrape the frost off the window.
Make it snow, make it snow.
Come on, Heikki Lunta, do a little dance in the ten below.
Miss La Niña, let the cold wind blow.
Together with Heikki Lunta, lay down a blanket white with snow.
Making an angel, building a snowman.
There’s a blizzard no school today.
Snowflakes are falling, taking a sleigh ride.
Make it snow, make it snow.
Come on, Heikki Lunta, do a little dance in the ten below.
Miss La Niña, let the cold wind blow.
Together with Heikki Lunta, lay down a blanket white with snow.
Make it snow, Heikki Lunta.
The t-sound in “that’s” and “them” is pronounced as a softened d-sound: “dat’s” and “dem.” GO BACK
A ski jump hill in Ishpeming. GO BACK
Carl Pellonpaa is the host of the local Finnish-American television program, Suomi Kutsuu [Finland Calling]. He has also served as the Honorary Consul to Finland for the Upper Peninsula. GO BACK
Sauna (pronounced correctly sow’-na) is a Finnish traditional steam/heat bath. GO BACK
Oulu Hotshots are a Finnish-American band from Oulu, Wisconsin. Oulu was named after a city in northern Finland. GO BACK
Raatikka is a type of dance. GO BACK
Makaraa is the Finnish word for sausage.GO BACK
Aili is a common Finnish woman’s name.GO BACK
Da Yoopers are a popular regional band who also have their own Heikki Lunta song.GO BACK
Viilia is a clabbered milk product of Finnish origin. GO BACK
Trenary Toast is a commercially produced dried cinnamon toast product commonly called hardtack. It is exported from the region for expatriate Yoopers to purchase. GO BACK
kalja: A Finnish homemade alcoholic beverage, often a low-alcohol beer. GO BACK
stompers: Upper Michigan term for large winter boots. GO BACK
kalamojakka: An American Finnish term for fish stew. GO BACK