Ostrobothnia Lullaby
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Ostrobothnia Lullaby Lyrics. An original lullaby inspired by Ostrobothnia, Finland’s flat coastal region known for its wooden churches and rising shoreline. Ostrobothnia’s coastline is still slowly rising out of the sea, a phenomenon called post-glacial rebound that adds new land at a rate of about a centimeter a year, and the Kvarken Archipelago just offshore was named a UNESCO World Heritage Site specifically to protect and study this rare, ongoing process. Here you will find the lyrics, meaning, and chords.
Lyrics & chords
An original arrangement, with guitar & piano chords above each line.
Verse
What the words mean
Chords — guitar & piano
What “Ostrobothnia Lullaby” Means
Ostrobothnia’s flat coastal plains are dotted with tall wooden churches, and the land itself is still slowly rising from the sea after the last ice age. This original lullaby draws on those wooden-church and coastal-plain images of Ostrobothnian heritage.
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- An original lullaby by Relax In No Time, inspired by the musical traditions of its region. The words, melody, arrangement and recording are ours.
- Recording and arrangement: real instruments played by hand, no AI music, by Relax In No Time.
- Chords: written by us for guitar and piano.
- Translation: our own meaning-for-meaning translation, written for understanding. The sung words stay in the original language.
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