Nåjaa!
Well then!
Klockon slår, nu ere dags
All bekymber försvinder strax
Bästa båoti för kropp och själ
Fyra väggar i träpanel
The clock strikes, now it’s time
All troubles will soon go away
The best cure for body and soul*
Four wood-panelled walls
Ooooh oooh – Vedin vår värmer lika bra
Ooooh oooh – Som tango me Arja Saijonmaa
Ooooh oooh – Our wood heats just as well
Ooooh oooh – As a tango with Arja Saijonmaa**
Yksi kaksi kolme sauna
One two three sauna***
Vi ska bada bastu bastu ångon åpp och släpp all stress idag
Bastubröder e je vi som glöder 100 grader nåjaa
Bara bada bastu bastu heittää på så sveittin bara yr
Ohhhhh bara bada bastu jåå
We’re going to have a sauna sauna, steam up and release all stress today
Sauna brothers, we’re the ones who glow, 100 degrees well then
Just have a sauna sauna, throw it on so that the sweat starts whirling around you
Ohhhhh have a sauna yeah
SAUNA! SAUNA!
SAUNA! SAUNA!
Ja jyst ja!
Häll på vattn och meir ångo nu
Tick tick tack hur läng orkar du
90 grader vi e nästan där
Perkele, e va på värman jär
That’s right!
Now pour on more water and more steam
Tick tick tock how long can you stand it?
90 degrees we’re almost there
Hell, it’s heating up now
Ooooh oooh – sveittin lackar, ja ja
Ooooh oooh – Yksi kaksi kolme sauna
Ooooh oooh – the sweat is dripping, yes yes
Ooooh oooh – One two three sauna
Vi ska bada bastu bastu ångon åpp och släpp all stress idag
Bastubröder e je vi som glöder 100 grader nåjaa
Bara bada bastu bastu heittää på så sveittin bara yr
Ohhhhh bara bada bastu jåå
SAUNA!
We’re going to have a sauna sauna, steam up and release all stress today
Sauna brothers, we’re the ones who glow, 100 degrees well then
Just have a sauna sauna, throw it on so that the sweat starts whirling around you
Ohhhhh have a sauna yeah
SAUNA!
Bara bada bastu, bara bada bastu
Bara bada, bara bada, bara bada bastu
Bara bada bastu, bara bada bastu
Bara bada, bara bada, bara bada bastu
Just have a sauna, just have a sauna
Just have, just have, just have a sauna
Just have a sauna, just have a sauna
Just have, just have, just have a sauna
Ei saa peittää
Do not cover****
Bara bada bastu, bara bada bastu
Bara bada, bara bada, bara bada bastu
Bara bada bastu, bara bada bastu
Bara bada, bara bada, bara bada bastu
Just have a sauna, just have a sauna
Just have, just have, just have a sauna
Just have a sauna, just have a sauna
Just have, just have, just have a sauna
Vi ska bada bastu bastu ångon åpp och släpp all stress idag
Bastubröder e je vi som glöder 100 grader nåjaa
Bara bada bastu bastu heittää på så sveittin bara yr
Ohhhhh bara bada bastu jåå
We’re going to have a sauna sauna, steam up and release all stress today
Sauna brothers, we’re the ones who glow, 100 degrees well then
Just have a sauna sauna, throw it on so that the sweat starts whirling
Ohhhhh have a sauna yeah
SAUNA!
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Bara bada bastu, bara bada bastu
Bara bada, bara bada, bara bada bastu
SAUNA!
Just have a sauna, just have a sauna
Just have, just have, just have a sauna
Just have a sauna, just have a sauna
Just have, just have, just have a sauna
SAUNA!
* Bara bada bastu is sung in Finland Swedish, the language of the Swedish-speaking minority population in Finland, which means that although nearly all of it is the same as standard Swedish, it contains a few dialect words such as båoti. In Swedish, this would read botet.
** Arja Saijonmaa is a Finnish singer who's most known for her hits in Swedish and for bringing the Finnish tango to Sweden. She came in second in Sweden's Eurovision trials, Melodifestivalen, in 1987 with the later cult hit Högt över havet ("High Above the Sea"). Saijonmaa belongs to the Finnish minority in Sweden, rather than (like the members of Kaj) the Finland-Swedish speaking minority in Finland.
*** Most Swedes for unknown reason know how to count to four in Finnish. Yksi, kaksi, kolme, neljä.
**** A Finnish phrase many Swedes learned from growing up seeing it on stickers on bathroom radiators. Swedes love showing off their Finnish skills by shouting it in conversation the first time they meet a Finnish speaker. We haven't asked the Finns how they feel about it.
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