Three words Lyrics

The blind and crippled shepherd

Stood beside the death-land river

Guarding Tuonela's waters

waiting for a long, long coming

Finally he hears footsteps beyond

From the death-stream sends a serpent

like an arrow from a cross-bow

To the heart of the hero

Ah! That I acted recklessly

That I did not heed my mother

Did not learn her magic words

Oh, only three to remember

Come, I pray thee, where I linger

Come, I pray thee, faithful mother

Come deliver me from torture

From the death-jaws of Tuoni

Helpless falls upon the waters

Floating down the coal-black current

Through the cataract and rapids

To the tombs of Tuonela

Ah! That I acted recklessly

That I did not heed my mother

Did not learn her magic words

Oh, only three to remember

There the blood-stained son of death-land

There Tuoni's son and hero

Cuts in pieces Lemminkainen

Chops him with his mighty hatchet

Till the sharpened axe strikes flint-sparks