Ella ja Aleksi – Yöjuna Rovaniemelle

Luc Latulippe | September 30th, 2009

I know nothing about this, other than having found it on my friend JvB’s Facebook page and being utterly smitten by its adorableness. The voice of the kid singing: priceless! And I can’t stand kids!

If you know any details about it, please add them to the comments below.

UPDATE: I just found this on Last.fm:

Ella ja Aleksi is a Finnish duo consisting of two children. The project was founded in 2004 by Markus Koskinen of the band Teleks and Sampo Haapaniemi of Egotrippi. It released an album named Lenni Lokinpoikanen (Lenni the Baby Seagull) which went platinum (30,000 sold copies) and stayed on the top four of the Finnish charts for four weeks. The latest album is Kolme muskettisopulia (The three musketeer lemmings) 2005.

The band’s lyrics are about human relations, family, and close surroundings. For example, the lyrics of the radio hit MC Koppakuoriainen (MC Beetle) are about the importance of parenting and not bullying others.

UPDATE #2: Well, five minutes of Googling, and I found the animation studio which produced this: Anima Boutique.

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  • I made a bit more accurate translation based on Manly's translation.

    The beds are made to us
    This night train goes to Lapland
    Lower bed for you, upper bed for me
    Now is the time for elves (=time to play the fool)
    Up toys, paper and markers
    The train is better than the cars and buses
    Here you can play with. Let's make a hut.
    Also the dad is smiling when he is not driving.
    (Also the dad is smiling when he is not driving.)

    So let's go to Rovaniemi
    This is the night train 865
    Here we are, a group of elves (=fools)
    The conductor takes care of us
    (2x)

    Could we move to live in a night train
    The home would always move
    The conductor guards our sleep
    It is a new place in the morning
    We found a jar with the words that
    This is the Helsinki tap water
    When you press the pedal to the toilet
    The piss is soon after on the rails

    So let's go to Rovaniemi
    This is the night train 865
    Here we are, group of elves (=fools)
    The conductor takes care of us
    (4x)
  • What a fun song!

    I'm not sure if this will add to anyone's experience, but I have a VERY rough translation of the lyrics here:

    Beds for us pedattuna
    Night train to Lapland from Tää
    Alasänky you, me yläsänky
    Now is the time to tonttuilulle
    Up toys, paper and markers
    The train is better than the cars and buses
    Here you can play with, a rooming
    Isäkin smiles when it does not drive
    (Isäkin smiles when it does not drive)

    Let's go to Rovaniemi, therefore,
    This is a night train 865
    We have been here, goblins kööri
    Keep us care of the conductor
    (2x)

    Voisko yöjunaan goes to live in
    You move house or her home, but
    Konnari guard our sleep
    It is a new place in the morning
    We found a jar with the words that
    This is the Helsinki tap water
    When you press the pedal to the toilet
    So point is already pissat rails
    (So pissat point is already on rails)

    Let's go to Rovaniemi, therefore,
    This is a night train 865
    We have been here, goblins kööri
    Keep us care of the conductor
  • KingSaku
    This was a commercial for VR (finnish railroad company) and every time I saw it wanted to rip my ears out. I just can't stand the song, sry guys.

    Oh and they're singing about taking a night train to Rovaniemi and how the conductor is going to make sure that everything goes alright.
  • Mike C
    I have no idea what they were saying so the fox scene in the middle was all the more interesting (hehe)

    I'm a fan of the dancing Walrus too.

    Nice vid ;)
  • I know eh? And it's funny that I posted about Jamie aka Hobo Divine yesterday, because this is very much in the same vein as his animation. I'm SURE he saw this and started dancing along to it. :)
  • If cute could kill, this'd cause an extinction.
  • I love this!
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