Can Anyone Help with a Finnish Song That Sounds Like, “Bimboli bamboli piemen boika”?

Heidi Reischuck wrote asking for help with a Finnish song:

“I am trying to find the words to a beloved Finnish song my grandmother Alli Heinonen taught me, about a Shepherd Boy.

Although I am using Duolingo to learn a bit of Finnish, I can’t even spell the song in Finnish properly, so it’s been hard to translate. My daughter is 20 and it was her favorite song when I taught it to her a kid.

Bimboli bamboli piemen boika
aye tell ya met tala
morrius
aye aye aye
Aye tala met talia Morrius

Any help in translating it would be appreciated. Kiitos! Kind regards!”

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If anyone can help with the Finnish lyrics of the song and/or a translation, please comment below.

Thanks in advance! -Mama Lisa

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One Response to “Can Anyone Help with a Finnish Song That Sounds Like, “Bimboli bamboli piemen boika”?”

  1. Shelby Albert Says:

    Mama Lisa, my paternal grandmother used to sing this to us all the time…I really wish I had looked up the lyrics/translation while she was still living. I’m sorry I don’t have any useful info to help us locate the lyrics/translation for this song but if I find them I’ll post them here. The only word of this song I can correctly spell in Finnish is poika which doesn’t help very much in finding lyrics, unfortunately.
    ~Shelby

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