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This is an old Finnish immigrants songs from the USA recorded in the New York at .. In fact Hiski Salomaa wasn't the most famous singer at Finns ballrooms, but he is one of those few, whose songs has been recorded and recordings has survived through these years. These songs are mainly stories about hard work, homesick and clever notices about their new home country. Finnish immigrants were known as “quiet people“, they were hard workers working mainly as loggers and miners. At free time they gathered together at their Halls where this kind of travelling musicians were entertaining them. In some songs they are using Fingelska, an language including some words from English. I hope owners of the rights want to see this as an honor to artist, which it really is ! And same goes to these random photos, which I have found from net. My hope is , that everyone can just listen to these songs and think some minutes of those hard times, which these brave men
