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Tuuti lasta kaakun eestä

Runosong type in the classification of SKVR, the Finnish Literature Society’s runosong corpus

In English: Rock the child for a cake (a translation; the archive names the type in Finnish only)

Filed underErilaisissa tilanteissa (songs for various occasions) › Kehtolaulut
Poems102
Verses465
Collection places73
Collected1880s to 1930s
CollectorsPerä-Pohjolan ja Lapin Kotiseutuyhdistys · Väinö Salminen · Samuli Paulaharju · Toini Kohvakka · Oskari Kuitunen · A. O. Väisänen · Ahti Rytkönen · Niilo Kallio · Anshelm Koskenjaakko · J. Kemilä

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The archive’s description

Written by the editors of the SKVR type index and quoted as it stands, in Finnish.

Lasta tuuditellaan pienen kakun (pullan, kakkaran, kahvin, limpun) toivossa, ja mikäli palkkaa ei kuulu, kehdon annetaan seistä.

Where it was collected

Collection places of the poems, with the number of poems of this type from each. A place may be where the song was written down or where the singer came from.

…and 13 more places

When it was collected

DecadePoems
1880s4
1890s8
1900s12
1910s49
1920s16
1930s13

Example poems

The opening verse of one poem from each of the ten places with the most poems of this type: the first such poem in the archive’s order. Each links to the whole poem. A poem can be filed under several types, so its opening verse may belong to another song.

Other types the same poems are filed under

The archive can file one poem under several types. These are the types most often given to poems of this type, with the number of poems they share.

TypePoems in common
Koska kotiin tullaan2

Content-based similar types

Several methods each rank the song types whose poems resemble this type's poems; the combined ranking merges their lists. The first 20 are listed here.

  1. Vehnäpulla (Wheat Bun)
  2. Makeaa velliä keitetään (Sweet porridge is being cooked)
  3. Aa aa Tuudituksia (Aa Aa Lullabies)
  4. Aa lullaa lasta, kissa vastaan (Aa lullaa, rock the child — the cat comes to meet us)
  5. Kiikun kaakun kissan jalka (Swing-swang cat's paw (nursery rhyme))
  6. Mikä lapsella lienee (What ails the child)
  7. Nuku nuku jotta kasvat suureks (Sleep, sleep, so you grow big)
  8. Turusta tullaan (Coming from Turku)
  9. Taas tullaan meidän tyttöjä naimaan (Again they come to marry our girls)
  10. Aa hussala heijaa, tule huomenna meille (Aa hussala heijaa, come to us tomorrow (lullaby))
  11. Paka, paka pullaa (Paka, paka, sweet bun (children's baking rhyme))
  12. Leivon leivon leipäsiä (The lark bakes little breads)
  13. Tule huomenna meille, saat sylttyä syödä (Come to us tomorrow, you'll eat brawn)
  14. Virpominen (Palm Sunday twig blessing)
  15. Tule surma vastaan (Come, Death, to meet us)
  16. Kalle paa suus alle - herra antaa rohtoo (Kalle, open your mouth - the lord gives medicine)
  17. Älä sijaas pissaa (Don't wet your bed)
  18. Aa aa allin lasta (Lullaby for the duck's child)
  19. Nuku nuku mamman kulta (Sleep, Sleep, Mother's Darling)
  20. Aa, tuuti lasta, vingerpori vastaa (Aa, rock the child, Vingerpori facing (lullaby))

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Sources: the type’s name, filing and description come from the SKVR type index of the Finnish Literature Society (SKS); the counts, places, decades and collectors are counted from the poems on RunoVerse.