Quando l’uccello canta/When the Bird Sings

This is the first project where I didn’t upload an audio file to Suno.ai; it was generated from the sheet music I created using the free MuseScore software. I had to give Suno.ai instructions several times, with the program generating two new versions for each prompt. The section marked [Wordless singing] was intended to make Suno.ai hum using a syllable like “hmm,” but despite numerous attempts and various tags, I couldn’t get it to do that.

I don’t know if it bothers the listener that the humming was performed instrumentally instead. Perhaps that’s actually a better option. You can’t compare the two versions, of course, since you’re only hearing one. Still, you can let me know if the instrumental section worked well.

Please listen to me:

È mattina e sono felice

[Coro]
È mattina e sono felice.
Domani andrò nella foresta.
Darò l’uccello alla gente.
Anche se non so
Anche se non so
se la gente riesca a sentire
il canto dell’uccello.

Sentite, sentite,
quando l’uccello canta?
Canta con saggezza.

Canta con saggezza.
Canta con saggezza.

[Canto senza parole]

[Coro]
È mattina e sono felice.
Domani andrò nella foresta.
Darò l’uccello alla gente.
Anche se non so
Anche se non so

Anche se non so
se la gente riesca a sentire
il canto dell’uccello.

Sentite, sentite,
quando l’uccello canta?
Canta con saggezza.

Canta con saggezza.
Canta con saggezza.
© Yelling Rosa
2026-09-17

If you are wondering why the poem’s lines are divided irregularly—or do not follow the initial pattern—it is because the arrangement of the lines and the length of the line breaks influence the resulting melody.

It is Morning and I am Happy

[Chorus]
It is morning and I am happy.
Tomorrow I will go into the forest.
I will give the bird to the people.
Even though I do not know
Even though I do not know
if the people can hear
the bird’s song.

Do you hear, do you hear
when the bird sings?
It sings with wisdom.

It sings with wisdom.
It sings with wisdom.

[Wordless singing]

[Chorus]
It is morning and I am happy.
Tomorrow I will go into the forest.
I will give the bird to the people.
Even though I do not know
Even though I do not know

Even though I do not know
if the people can hear
the bird’s song.

Do you hear, do you hear
when the bird sings?
It sings with wisdom.

It sings with wisdom.
It sings with wisdom.
© Yelling Rosa
2026-09-17

I followed the same typographic structure for the English-language verse as for the Italian version. It should make the plot easier to follow.

Il mio cuore blu/My Blue Heart -song

Please listen to me:

Il mio cuore blu
Il mio cuore blu	La mia coccinella
è un enigma per te,	è il mio amico rosso
per le persone disoneste	per una bambina onesta
è una pietra pesante.	un grande miracolo.
C’è più dell’amore;	Posso toccare l’insetto?
le nuvole si stanno	delicatamente
allontanando.	solo una volta.
La domenica nera	La domenica nera
racconta bugie	racconta bugie
bianche.	bianche.
La domenica nera	La domenica nera
racconta bugie	racconta bugie
bianche.	bianche.
© Yelling Rosa 2026-08-08

My Blue Heart

My blue heart
Is an enigma to you,
To dishonest people
It’s a heavy stone.
Beyond love;
The clouds are
Moving away.
Black Sunday
Tells white
Lies.
© Yelling Rosa
2026-08-08

ABOUT THE SONG

This song was created using the principle that I introduce in the article To Make a Cover Song on Suno.ai. In a nutshell, the melody and lyrics are my own, and Suno.ai created the vocals and accompaniment. I had to give Suno.ai instructions several times before the version that is here now saw the light of day.

The ladybug (Coccinella) mentioned in the song is a living hero. When I was in my twenties, I was walking through the streets of Helsinki, and a ladybug landed on my knee. At first I thought of shooing it away, but then I decided to see how long it would spend its time with me. I walked about a kilometer to the Market Square, where I went to a tent for coffee. There, a young girl saw a ladybug and asked if she could touch it. I replied that of course, as long as you are careful. I mostly thought it would take flight. It didn’t. I already had time to think that it was dead. This thought doesn’t really sit well with me, because if it had died, it would have fallen off my feet. After drinking my coffee, I went to Esplanade Park and sat down on a park bench. Then the little hero moved and sat next to me on the bench, which had just been repainted green. After about half a minute on the bench, the insect took off.

AI Summit:

Ladybugs release a foul-smelling, toxic yellowish fluid from their leg joints when threatened. This defense mechanism is called reflex bleeding, where their blood (hemolymph) seeps out to taste and smell terrible to predators. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]

How the Defense Works

• Reflex Bleeding: Fluid oozes from the joints of their legs.
• Toxic Alkaloids: The liquid contains foul chemical compounds that are toxic to small animals and birds.
• Warning Colors: Their bright red or orange shells warn predators beforehand that they taste bad.
• Playing Dead: They often tuck in their legs and stay still while using this chemical defense. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]

Effects on Humans

• Not Dangerous: The fluid is not poisonous or harmful to humans.
• Stains and Smells: It can leave a yellow stain or a musky odor on surfaces or skin if you crush them.
• Allergies: Some people might get mild skin irritation or allergic reactions if they touch them. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

To Stay Lying down in the Gunfire; Kun ovi sulkeutuu

Kun ovi sulkeutuu
on avattava uusi ovi
ettei unohdu tuleen
makaamaan.
© Yelling Rosa
2026-07-25

When the door finally closes,
a new one must be opened
or stay lying down
in the gunfire.
© Yelling Rosa
2026-07-25

The Finnish saying

The Finnish saying jäädä tuleen makaamaan literally translates to “to stay lying down in the gunfire”. Idiomatically, it means to give up, freeze up, or stay passively paralyzed after running into a setback or crisis instead of keeping moving forward and taking action. [1, 2, 3]

Origin and Context

• Military roots: The phrase comes from military vocabulary and was famously popularized by Väinö Linna in his classic 1954 war novel Tuntematon sotilas (The Unknown Soldier), where an officer orders troops not to freeze or lie down under fire. [1]
• Modern usage: Today, it is used broadly in everyday life—often in the negative (ei saa jäädä tuleen makaamaan / “you mustn’t stay lying in the fire”)—to encourage someone to get back up, face adversity, and fix a difficult situation rather than surrender to despair. [1, 2, 3]

2026-06-13 The Finnish Movie Named “Katariina and the Count of Munkkiniemi” from 1943

This film and its theme song are among the most popular ones in Finland. Naturally, the younger generations don’t find the film and song as close as we old farts. Still, everyone recognizes the song “Romanssi”, and on many occasions it has even been considered the best Finnish love song ever. The Finnish title of the film is “Katariina ja Munkkivuoren kreivi”.

All Material are from Wikipedia.org

Katariina ja Munkkiniemen kreivi (Katariina and the Count of Munkkiniemi) is a 1943 Finnish film directed by Ossi Elstelä [fi].^[1][2] It is based on the novel Katariina ja Munkkiniemen kreivi by Kaarina Viitainoja [fi]. The film stars Regina Linnanheimo, Leif Wager, Elsa Rantalainen, Ester Toivonen and Eino Kaipainen. This film was Wager’s first major feature film, and as a result he became one of the most popular Finnish male actors of the 1940s.

The film is set in Helsinki in 1860. The plot is about the love between Katariina, a farmhand’s daughter, and Count Mauritz Armborg of Munkkiniemi. The film’s most famous scene features the “Romance [fi]”, which Count Mauritz sings in a park by the pond to Katariina, with music by Nils-Eric Fougstedt and lyrics by Reino Hirviseppä.

The film was first aired on Finnish television on 1 October 1965, attracting approximately half a million viewers. A screening in July of the following year drew about 1.36 million viewers. The film has been released on both VHS and DVD.

Romanssi (Romance)

Romanssi is a musical piece composed and arranged by Nils-Eric Fougstedt and written by Reino Palmroth (Reino Hirvisepän) for the 1943 Finnish film Katariina ja Munkkiniemi kreivi. The film is set in the 1860s and tells the love story of a landowner’s daughter, Katariina, and the young Count Mauritz Armborg. The old countess, who disapproves of the illicit relationship, tries to prevent the young couple from marrying. The film’s male lead, 20-year-old Leif Wager, a Norwegian citizen at the time, sings the song “Romanssi” in the film’s final scene, as Count Mauritz Armborg sings a love song by a park pond, unaware that Katariina is nearby.

The film Leif Wager and the love song Romanssi became very popular in wartime Finland. The film was the most-watched film of 1943, and the Romance song was one of the most-played songs on the radio during the war years, where it was played on an instant disc made by Yleisradio from the film’s soundtrack. The Romance also remained a standard song on the radio’s Saturday Wished Discs program for years.

You can find the rest of the article here.
Unfortunately, there is no English translation of this article. I translated the text, which you can watch here right now.

Pepe Willberg sings the song “Romanssi” on the FinnHits compilation album in 1976

Pepe Willberg

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Pertti “Pepe” Willberg (formerly Toivo Pertti Uolevi Willberg,^[1] till 1955 Kaukonen;^[2] born 17 December 1946) is a Finnish singer, songwriter and guitarist.

Read the rest of the article here.

Lullaby named I Lull My Child – Kannan tunturilla

I wrote this lullaby in the early 1990s. I was on tour as a troubadour in Finnish Lapland. During that trip, I had several gigs that also featured Sámi songwriters. They sang their own songs and traditional yoiks. One morning after waking up in a motel, I grabbed my guitar, and the song, with its lyrics, was born from that sitting. At some point, I was shown a video of reindeer herds being released from their pens into the wild. At that time, the light was on its side because the sun had barely risen above the horizon and was quickly disappearing from view. There is a season in Lapland when the sun does not rise at all, but that phase was behind us. Other elements came from my dream, where I carried my son in my arms on the fells. When he was a baby and a toddler, I was a stay-at-home dad when I was not on gigs.

In 1996, we made the album “Silent Songs” with the musician Jouni Juola from Tornio. “Kannan tunturilla” is one of the 13 songs on that album, 9 of which were my own and 4 were Jouni’s. Jouni sings, plays guitar, and handles all the solos. I wrote the basis for my own songs. Jouni’s were entirely his own. We intended to make “Silent Songs II”, which would have more of Jouni’s songs than mine. This album was never made. Jouni was hit by a car on a pedestrian crossing in Helsinki a few years after the album was released. He didn’t die right away, but had time to be in the hospital for a while before passing away.

You can listen to our version first, then Suno.ai version, which features the lullaby sung in English. Suno.ai singers are phrasing the melody quite a bit, but fortunately not too much.

Kannan tunturilla (Y. Rosa)

I Lull My Child (Y. Rosa)

Please watch this video on YouTube, as watching an embedded video does not increase views. I would appreciate a thumbs-up from the bottom of my heart. Thank You ❤️

You can watch the video of “I Lull My Child” at https://youtu.be/_uhaXyS1o1w

To Make a Cover Song on Suno.ai

As strange as it sounds, a cover song on Suno.ai means a personal, user-generated melody.
Please, listen to this song first, and I will explain how I have proceeded.

First, I played the melody in the music program (Cakewalk by BandLab) and saved the melody in MIDI format. Then I opened the MIDI file in the notation program MuseScore (free), which converted it to MP3 format.

After that, I uploaded the MP3 file to Suno. I gave Suno.ai the following instructions.

[Intro]

[Instrumental Intro, soft piano]

(Let it play for a few seconds)

[Verse 1]

You know I am c,
and you must be d,
a, a, g, e, f,
g, e, d, e, c.
Where is hiding that note b?
Now we have met her.

[Solo]

[Verse 2]

I am also do,
when your name is re,
la, la, so, mi, fa,
so, mi, re, mi, do.
Have we lost one called ti?
Yes, but we found her.

C = Do
D = Re
E = Mi
F = Fa
G = Sol (tai So)
A = La
B = Si (tai Ti)
C = Do (oktaavia ylempänä)

Below is the ‘I Am C Major Song’ notated (MuseScore)

Suno.ai accepts in square brackets:

Here are the types of words and commands Suno.ai accepts in square brackets:

1. Song Structure & Sections

These tags help organize the flow of the song. 

• [Intro] / [Instrumental Intro]
• [Verse] / [Verse 1], [Verse 2]
• [Chorus] / [Chorus 1]
• [Pre-Chorus]
• [Bridge]
• [Chorus: Interlude]
• [Drop] / [Epic Drop] / [Beat Drop]
• [Solo] / [Guitar Solo] / [Saxophone Solo]
• [Outro] / [Fade Out] / [End]
• [Interlude] 

2. Vocal Styles & Techniques

These instruct the AI on how to deliver the vocals. 

• [Whispered] / [Whispered Intro]
• [Spoken] / [Spoken Word] / [Conversational]
• [Shouted] / [Gang Shouts] (common in punk/rock)
• [Screamed] / [Harsh Vocals]
• [Ad-libs] / [Vocal Ad-libs]
• [Harmony] / [Layered Vocals]
• [Female Vocal] / [Male Vocal] (to switch singers)

3. Instrumentation & Vibe

These define the musical accompaniment for specific sections. 

• [Acoustic] / [Piano Only]
• [Heavy Guitar] / [Distorted]
• [Drum Break]
• [Bass Drop]
• [Atmospheric]
• [Fast Tempo] / [Slow]

4. Advanced/Combined Tags

You can combine instructions for more precise control. 

• [Verse 2 - Emotional, soft]
• [Chorus - High energy, piano]
• [Bridge - Distorted spoken]

Best Practices for Brackets

• Keep it simple: Too many words can confuse the AI or cause it to sing the instructions.
• Structure vs. Style: Use brackets [ ] for structure/instrumentation, and parentheses ( ) for vocal delivery or background vocals.
• Placement: Place tags on their own line before the lyrics they apply to. 

Note: While Suno often obeys these tags, they are not guaranteed to work 100% of the time, functioning more as suggestions to the AI model. 

God Doesn’t Write The Books, the Song

Looking at this world, it is impossible to understand how incapable Western governments are of solving the Middle East problem. One factor that confuses decision-makers is Christianity, or more precisely, the deliberate distortion of religion. My late grandmother said that the Bible can be read in many ways. A good person finds the instructions to love his neighbor as himself, and a bad person finds ways to manipulate his fellow man and pursue his own interests.

The accompanying song tells the story of how God has not written the first book, which is why common sense is not merely permissible but necessary. Each of us must ask ourselves what kind of God we want to worship. A God who loves people or one who gives permission to kill certain groups of people.

Suno.ai has created a song titled “God Do Not Write the Books” based on my notes. I noticed that one passage says ‘God Do Not Write’, which should, of course, be ‘God Does’. Fixing the error seems like such a big task that I’m not revising it.

God Does Not Write The Books

I was watching the dunes
When the sun went behind
Flaming horizon.

I was watching the dunes
When the sun went behind
Flaming horizon.

I did not need to past through
The desert because the spirit
Of the sand had revealed
The truth.

God does not write the books.
God does not write the books.
God does not write the books.
God does not write the books.
© Yelling Rosa
2025-05-19

Winnie-the-Pooh translated in Ido by Brian E. Drake

Winnie-the-Pooh translated in Ido by Brian E. Drake

Today, I talk a little about the Winnie-the-Pooh book that Brian E. Drake has translated into Ido. Those who have read my articles know that Brian’s talented translations are not new here. Personally, I have used them in learning Ido. Because of my dyslexia, I often put some text from Brian’s translation with the English text. In this way, it is easier for me to compare the text. Of course, this procedure is not necessary for people without learning challenges.

Title page

Here’s an excerpt for you

In Ido	in English
Winnie-la-Pu	Winnie-the-Pooh
Yen, Edward Urso nun decensas l’eskalero, bum, bum, bum an la kapo-dorso, dop Christopher Robin. To esas, segun lua savo, l’unika maniero decensar l’eskalero, ma lu ulfoye opinionas ke advere esas altra maniero, se lu nur povus cesar bum-ar dum instanto e ponderar. Pose lu opinionas ke forsan ne esas altra maniero. Omnakaze, yen, lu esas ye la bazo, e pronta esar introduktata a tu. Winnie-la-Pu	Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it. And then he feels that perhaps there isn’t. Anyhow, here he is at the bottom, and ready to be introduced to you. Winnie-the-Pooh.
© Brian E. Drake, Browse Winnie the Pooh in Ido, here	Project Gutenberg, Read and download Winnie the Pooh by A. A. Milne here

As we know, translations are not verbatim. This is how we, at least I, need to know the verbatim translation of an Ido word. Now there is a convenient solution for that: I converted the dictionary edited by Dyer in 1924, updated by Brian E. Drake in 2024, into PDF format. You can read it here and, if necessary, open the dictionary in a browser for easier browsing.

A few examples

decensar	to go down, descend
segun	segun: (prep.) according to, agreeably to, in conformity with; pursuant to, after
savo	knowledge
pose	afterward
Pose: I didn’t find the exact tranlastion for the word ‘pose’. But no problem I used the Wiktionary.

I hope you enjoy reading Winnie-the-Pooh in Ido and English as much as I do, and find the updated English-Ido and Ido-English dictionaries useful.

PS Not many people know that L. L. Zamenhof was the first Esperantido in the world

1894 Esperanto Reform Project

In 1894, L. L. Zamenhof, who was the original creator of the constructed language Esperanto, proposed a complete series of reforms to Esperanto (in other words, an Esperantido). It is notable as the only complete Esperantido to be authored by Zamenhof himself, and it was presented in response to various reforms that had been proposed by others since the language’s publication in 1887. The project was eventually rejected by the language’s speakers, and subsequently even by Zamenhof himself. Some of the proposed reforms were used in another constructed language, Ido, beginning in 1907.

Read the rest of this article
at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1894_Esperanto_reform_project

Esperanto-Ido vortaro de lexiko da Heinz Jacob

From this book, you can read about the differences and similarities of Esperanto and Ido. The vocabulary is in the end of the book, see the picture of the first page of the vocabulary below

Mi ambulabam apud ripa – I Was Walking by the River Bank.

I tried out how Suno.ai pronounces Latin. With some mixed success, but that’s probably because the inflection of nouns and adjectives follows Giuseppe Peano’s instructions. His method brings the words closer to Spanish and Italian, so Suno.ai has work to do. I’m still relatively happy with the pronunciation. I intentionally misspelled some words that would be easier to pronounce.

Angelo donabat me amore

Mi ambulabam apud ripa
de flumine quieto,
tum vivebam ut amica egeo.
Possem invenire id
de stellato cielo?

[Chorus]

Angelo donabat me amore
que venibat meo anima.
Nunc non possum vivere
sine luce de stellas.

Mi ambulabam apud ripa
de flumine quieto,
et intellegebam quo mundo
ingente est sed homines
lapides parvo.

[Chorus]

Angelo donabat me amore
que venibat meo anima.
Nunc non possum vivere
sine luce de stellas.
© Yelling Rosa
2026-02-24

The Bank of a Quiet River

I walked along the bank
of a quiet river,
then I saw I needed a friend.
Could I find her
in the starry sky?

[Chorus]

An angel gave me love
and came to my soul.
Now I can’t live without
the light of the stars.

I walked along the bank
of a quiet river,
and I understood the world
is huge, but humans
are tiny pebbles.
© Yelling Rosa
2026-02-24

Excerpts from the Wikipedia article “Latino sine flexione” according to Giuseppe Peano.

Nouns

The form of nouns depends on the Latin declensions.

Latin declension number (genitive ending)	1: -ae	2: -i	3: -is	4: -us	5: -ei
Latino ending	-a	-o	-e	-u	-e

Latin declension/nominative form	Latin genitive	Latino (Latin ablative)	English
1st: rosa	rosae	rosa	rose
2nd: laurus	lauri	lauro	laurel
3rd: pax	pacis	pace	peace
4th: casus	casus	casu	case
5th: series	seriei	serie	series

Those proper nouns written with the Roman alphabet are kept as close to the original as possible. The following are examples: München, New York, Roma, Giovanni.

Read the whole article here.

Mustas Askoltar la Kaudo di Tigro; Must Listen to the Tail of the Tiger

Li dicas
ke me mustas askoltar
la kaudo di tigro
e sequar la piedi.
Quankam la sovaja bestio
havas ne dentegi,
Taiga es ne-predicebla.
Tamen li parolas tro
pro ke ol esas me,
qua esas en la foresto.
© Yelling Rosa
2026-01-17

English version of the poem below the drawing.

The Tail of the Tiger

They say
that I must listen to
The tail of the tiger
and follow the paws.
Even though the wild beast
has no tusks,
Taiga is unpredictable.
Yet they speak too much
because it is me,
That is in the forest.
© Yelling Rosa
2026-01-17

Ido	The English Column is from Wiktionary.
Li	they, them
dicar	(tr.) to say, to tell
ke	that
me	I, me
mustar	(intr.) must, to have to, to be under the necessity of, be obliged
askoltar	(tr.) to listen to, hearken to, give ear to
kaudo	tail (appendage)
la	the
di	of (indicating possession)
tigro	tiger
e	apocopic form of ed
ed	and
sequar	(tr.) to follow, go or come after, go next, to be or come next
piedo	foot; paw
-i	-s; marks the plural form of nouns, by replacing the -o ending
quankam	although, though, albeit
sovaja	savage: wild
bestio	beast, animal (other than human)
havar	to have
-as	desinence of the present tense in verbs
ne	not, don’t;
ne-	(“non-, un-, in-, im-, ir- (etc.)”)
dentego	augmentative of dento; tusk
Taiga	Taiga or tayga (/ˈtaɪɡə/ TY-gə; Russian: тайга́, IPA: [tɐjˈɡa]), also known as boreal forest or snow forest, is a biome characterized by coniferous forests consisting mostly of pines, spruces, and larches, Wikipedia.
es	apocopic form of esas
esar (present esas)	(intr.) to be
ne-predicebla	unpredictable
-ebla	-able, -ible
tamen	however, nevertheless
parolar	to talk; to speak
tro	too (much)
multe	a lot
pro ke	because
ol	apocopic form of olu; it, that
qua	(relative pronoun) which, who
en	in
foresto	forest
© Yelling Rosa	© Wiktionary

Ido

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Ido (/ˈiːdoʊ/^[2]) is a constructed language derived from a reformed version of Esperanto, and designed similarly with the goal of being a international auxiliary language (or universal second language) for people of diverse languages. Read the rest of the article here.