Name: Soft Heart
Duration: P00H04M44S
Description: Just as they had been in the "old country", many Finns became farmers. The love-smitten miner in this ballad has been laid-off at the mines and forced to work the land. Mesaba Park near Hibbing was founded as a Finnish socialist cooperative camp. It is one of a few across the U.S. still surviving.

Soft Heart

from Songs of Mesabi by Greg Tiburzi

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Just as they had been in the "old country", many Finns became farmers. The love-smitten miner in this ballad has been laid-off at the mines and forced to work the land. Mesaba Park near Hibbing was founded as a Finnish socialist cooperative camp. It is one of a few across the U.S. still surviving.

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Soft Heart

(intro.)
They laid me off at the mine, and I moved out to Cherry
Year was 1933, I lived on fish and berries
Planted me a garden, spent the winter chopping wood
Ran into town to shop some and my life changed to the good!
Our eyes met at the Co-Op store, peeking through the Mason jars
You told me you pickled everything that you planted in your yard
It was love at first sight, I would learn to pickle too,
until Mister Roosevelt gave us other jobs to do

(chorus)
In these hard times, we all need a soft heart
We all got to take heart, in everything we do
Darling in these hard times, we all need a soft heart,
and I found my soft heart in you

It was during Suomi Festival, at Mesaba Lake,
after the culla mojakka, kaffia and cardamom cake,
that we polka'd around the maypole, I kissed her then proposed,
now we walk hand in hand, down the rough and rocky road

(chorus)

(bridge)
We haven't got a pot to piss in
But with you in my arms, there ain't much missin'

(chorus)

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from Songs of Mesabi, released June 14, 2022

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Greg Tiburzi Duluth, Minnesota

Inspired by pop radio, the American songbook, folk and world music, and rock from Chuck Berry on, Greg Tiburzi blends guitar and harmonica to back his compositions of loss, redemption, and fragility of the human condition. He reveres the healing quality of music, the ability to lift and better connect us to each other, our surroundings, and ourselves. ... more

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