Hi r/Estonia,
I had the chance to see the Jaanipäev celebration at Eesti Vabaõhumuuseum this year. And I heard a lot of nice folk music there and these two songs kept stuck in my head. Unfortunately I am not able to find their names, because I don’t speak the language and don’t know what to look for. So maybe someone on here can help me out. That would be great!
https://old.reddit.com/r/Eesti/comments/1dua1wa/looking_for_two_estonian_folk_songs/
Posted by Zasma
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Second one: [https://www.laulud.ee/laul/me_lahme_rukist_loikama-646.aspx](https://www.laulud.ee/laul/me_lahme_rukist_loikama-646.aspx)
EDIT: couldn’t find a one with video for the first, but it’s this song: [https://regilaulik.folklore.ee/pohjatartumaa/regilaulud-kooliprogrammis/3-3/](https://regilaulik.folklore.ee/pohjatartumaa/regilaulud-kooliprogrammis/3-3/)
The first one is a folk song called “Kiik tahab kindaid” (“The swing wants gloves”). This song has many versions and I was unable to find this particular combination of lyrics, but your recording captures the end of one verse and the beginning of the second, which in my short research come from different versions of the song.
The song also has no other recordings of the same version you recorded, as far as I can tell.
[https://www.folklore.ee/pubte/eraamat/rahvamuusika/ee/022-Kiik-tahab-kindaid](https://www.folklore.ee/pubte/eraamat/rahvamuusika/ee/022-Kiik-tahab-kindaid) <- here are two versions of the same song, they are quite different from each other
[https://www.folklore.ee/~maris/work/paidelaulud.pdf](https://www.folklore.ee/~maris/work/paidelaulud.pdf) <- Song nr 70. (page 181) is the same song with two more versions, second of which is in my opinion the closest to the version you heard.
There is a modernized and heavily modified version of the song available on YouTube: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUnzFRqI5CI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUnzFRqI5CI)
Hope this helps!