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This song, "Myrskyn jälkeen" (1995), is one I've been humming for a few weeks, because they sing it frequently at karaoke, but it was only yesterday that I managed to go look at the screen while someone was singing and catch the title. (I also hadn't caught what the words to the hook were. Our karaoke club's singers are not hugely into enunciating clearly, and the best male one sounds, as previously mentioned, rather like Bob Dylan. The others can't really carrry a tune in a bucket, bless their hearts. I still have a lot of fun listening to them.)

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Anyway, this song is a jaunty and peppy folksy Finnish country song, with an old-fashioned flavor and a brisk beat, and it has the mournful minor chord progressions that I love along with a pretty sweet bridge into some major ones. It's about seeing the light again after depression, or considering the artist and lyricist Kari Tapio's life, probably after alcoholism, and it's a fun bop.

Allow Wikipedia to introduce this extremely famous, late and much-lamented dude:

Kari Tapani Jalkanen (22 November 1945 – 7 December 2010),[1] better known by his stage name Kari Tapio, was a Finnish schlager and country & western singer. During his career, he was one of the most popular singers in Finland for decades; having sold over 830,000 certified records (during his career and posthumously), he is the best-selling soloist in the country.