This waltz was brought from Finland to the USA by the Scandinavian communities of the midwest, and has been picked up since by the contra dance community. Metsä is a wooded area or woodland, and kukkia is a flower; hence the alternate name of Forest Flowers.
Ref: https://tunearch.org/wiki/Annotation:Mets%C3%A4kukkia
Ref: https://thesession.org/tunes/4585
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