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Tuuti lasta nukkumaan, lapsenpiika torkkumaan

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

In English: Rock the child to sleep, the nursemaid to doze (a translation; the archive names the type in Finnish only)

Filed underErilaisissa tilanteissa (songs for various occasions) › Kehtolaulut
Poems182
Verses1,227
Collection places83
Collected1850s to 1930s
CollectorsEemeli Vihervaara · Aukusti Salo · Vilho Saariluoma · Esko Aaltonen · V. J. Kallio · T. Renlund · Jenny Maria Tallgren · Laina Hänninen · Eemil Saarimaa · Iina Seppänen

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The archive’s description

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

Tuuti lasta nukkumaan, lapsen piika torkkumaan. Kukas sitten kiikuttaa? Kyllä kissa (Jeesus, kettu, äiti jne) kiikuttaa. Kukas kissan palkan maksaa? Kissan palkaksi mainitaan esim. Turun sonni, Hämeen härkä, piispan paras paistilammas, riikin iso kukko ja palkan maksajaksi esimerkiksi Turun suuri herra tai laulaja itse.

* Vain ensimmäinen säepari. Tähän ei ole erikseen poimittu niitä numeroita, joissa Tuuti lasta nukkumaan, lapsenpiika torkkumaan -säepari toimii alkukliseenä, vrt. Tule uni uunin päältä.

Usein ketjuuntunut >Tuu tuu tupakkirullan kanssa.

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 23 more places

When it was collected

DecadePoems
1850s2
1880s7
1890s4
1900s29
1910s111
1920s10
1930s19

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
Tuu, tuu, tupakkirulla23
Tuuti lasta Tuonelaan4
Tule uni uunin päältä3
Aa lullaa lasta, muori, isä vastaan3
Tuuti lasta turvakseni2

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. Tule uni uunin päältä (Come sleep from atop the stove)
  2. Uni ulkoa kysyy (Sleep asks from outside)
  3. Tule uni ulkoa (Come, sleep, from outside)
  4. Sauhua pakoon, aidan rakoon (Fleeing the smoke, into the fence gap)
  5. Aa lullaa lasta, kissa vastaan (Aa lullaa, rock the child — the cat comes to meet us)
  6. Aa lullaa lasta, muori, isä vastaan (Aa lullaa, rock the child — granny and father come to meet us)
  7. Tuuti lasta tuomariksi (Lull the child to be a judge)
  8. Tuuti lasta, laita toista (Rock one child, tend another (lullaby))
  9. Tuuti lasta - kuuset kukkimaan (Lull the child, spruces into bloom)
  10. Uuvutan unen rekehen (Into the sleigh of sleep)
  11. Lasten sukupuolen määrääminen (Determining a child's sex)
  12. Isä on talvella tukkitöissä (Father at the Winter Logging Camp)
  13. Nukku lapsen amma (Nurse of the sleeping child)
  14. Iso härkä (The great ox)
  15. Tuu, tuu, tupakkirulla (Tuu, tuu, tobacco roll (lullaby))
  16. Aa vauva vakussa (Lullaby: baby in the cradle)
  17. Karitsan sukupuolen määrääminen (Determining the lamb's sex)
  18. Herrat nosti hattuansa, talonpojat lakkiansa (The lords raised their hats, the peasants their caps)
  19. Tuuti lasta nukkumaan, suuren vuoren kukkulaan (Rock the child to sleep, onto the great mountain's crest)
  20. Tuuti lasta Tuonelaan (Rock the child to Tuonela)

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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.