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'''LIFE IN THE FINN/FINNISH/FINLAND WOODS''' (Livet i Finnskogarna). AKA - "[[Livet i Finnskogen]]," "[[Mockingbird Hill]]." Swedish, Waltz. G Major {Matthiesen}: D Major ('A' and 'B' parts) & G Major ('C' part) {Phillips}. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BB (Matthiesen): ABB'CC (Phillips). Original versions appear to have a 'C' part. The tune was at one time locally popular among the ethnic northern Wisconsin ethnic Slovak and Croation populace, and is also popular with Scandinavians in general. It has been a popular waltz among fiddlers in eastern Canada and the north-east United States. The title, however, is Swedish and refers to that part of the woods of Sweden where a Finnish population settled. The melody, with lyrics appears in a 1938 Swedish tune book entitled Jularbos Basta, published in Malmo, Sweden, and is a composition by Swedish accordion virtuoso Carl Jularbo (1893-1966). It was recorded in 1915 and was a quite popular piece of music of its era, which accounts for its wide dissemination outside of Sweden. Tom Paley thinks another Swedish 3-part tune, "Moeckelmyrvalsen," was a source tune (a version by Jon-Erik Oest is structured AABBACC). Pattie Page used the first two parts of the three-part melody in the 1950's for her hit "Mocking Bird Hill." The first two parts were also recorded by Irish fiddler Seán Ryan on his first album, Siúil Uait, under the title "[[Seacht bPreab]]." | |f_annotation='''LIFE IN THE FINN/FINNISH/FINLAND WOODS''' (Livet i Finnskogarna). AKA - "[[Livet i Finnskogen]]," "[[Mockingbird Hill]]." Swedish, Waltz. G Major {Matthiesen}: D Major ('A' and 'B' parts) & G Major ('C' part) {Phillips}. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BB (Matthiesen): ABB'CC (Phillips). Original versions appear to have a 'C' part. The tune was at one time locally popular among the ethnic northern Wisconsin ethnic Slovak and Croation populace, and is also popular with Scandinavians in general. It has been a popular waltz among fiddlers in eastern Canada and the north-east United States. The title, however, is Swedish and refers to that part of the woods of Sweden where a Finnish population settled. The melody, with lyrics appears in a 1938 Swedish tune book entitled Jularbos Basta, published in Malmo, Sweden, and is a composition by Swedish accordion virtuoso Carl Jularbo (1893-1966). It was recorded in 1915 and was a quite popular piece of music of its era, which accounts for its wide dissemination outside of Sweden. Tom Paley thinks another Swedish 3-part tune, "Moeckelmyrvalsen," was a source tune (a version by Jon-Erik Oest is structured AABBACC). Pattie Page used the first two parts of the three-part melody in the 1950's for her hit "Mocking Bird Hill." The first two parts were also recorded by Irish fiddler Seán Ryan on his first album, Siúil Uait, under the title "[[Seacht bPreab]]." | ||
|f_source_for_notated_version=Clarence Tate [Phillips]. | |||
|f_printed_sources=Matthiesen ('''Waltz Book II'''), 1995; p. 31. Phillips ('''Traditional American Fiddle Tunes'''), vol. 2, 1995; p. 277. | |||
|f_recorded_sources=Gabriel Dumont Institute, Richard Callihoo - "Drops of Brandy and Other Traditional Métis Tunes Disc 1" (2001). Sonora 7211 (78 RPM), Karl Jularbo med Stjarntrio (accordion) - "Livet i Finnskogarna." | |||
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X: 1 P: Livet i Finnskogarna (Life in the Finnish Woods) C: Karl Jularbo (1893-1966) Z: 1997 by John Chambers <jc@trillian.mit.edu> R: waltz M: 3/4 L: 1/8 F:http://jc.tzo.net/~jc/music/abc/Scand/Vals04.abc K: D |: GFE | "D"D3FAd | f3dAF | "G"G3Bdg | "Em"b6 | "A7"a3gec | A3ceg | "D"f3dAF | D3GFE | | "D"D3FAd | f3dAF | "G"G3Bdg | "Em"b6 | "A7"a3gec | A3gec | "D"d3 d d2 | "fine"d3 :| |: FAd | "D"f3ff2 | "D7"g2f2e2 | "G"d4B2 | "D"A4a2 | "A7"a3gec | A3ceg | "D"f3dAF | D3FAd | | "D"f3ff2 | "D7"g2f2e2 | "G"d4B2 | "D"A4a2 | "A7"a3gec | A3gec | "D"d3 d d2 | d3 :| [K:G] |: "D7"d^c=c | "G"B3BB2 | B2A2G2 | "D7"F4d2 | c6 | d3dd2 | c2B2A2 | "G"g2f2e2 | "D7"[dd]edcBA | | "G"B3BB2 | B2A2G2 | "D7"F4d2 | c6 | d3dd2 | c2B2A2 | "G"G3GG2 | G3 :|
LIFE IN THE FINN/FINNISH/FINLAND WOODS (Livet i Finnskogarna). AKA - "Livet i Finnskogen," "Mockingbird Hill." Swedish, Waltz. G Major {Matthiesen}: D Major ('A' and 'B' parts) & G Major ('C' part) {Phillips}. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BB (Matthiesen): ABB'CC (Phillips). Original versions appear to have a 'C' part. The tune was at one time locally popular among the ethnic northern Wisconsin ethnic Slovak and Croation populace, and is also popular with Scandinavians in general. It has been a popular waltz among fiddlers in eastern Canada and the north-east United States. The title, however, is Swedish and refers to that part of the woods of Sweden where a Finnish population settled. The melody, with lyrics appears in a 1938 Swedish tune book entitled Jularbos Basta, published in Malmo, Sweden, and is a composition by Swedish accordion virtuoso Carl Jularbo (1893-1966). It was recorded in 1915 and was a quite popular piece of music of its era, which accounts for its wide dissemination outside of Sweden. Tom Paley thinks another Swedish 3-part tune, "Moeckelmyrvalsen," was a source tune (a version by Jon-Erik Oest is structured AABBACC). Pattie Page used the first two parts of the three-part melody in the 1950's for her hit "Mocking Bird Hill." The first two parts were also recorded by Irish fiddler Seán Ryan on his first album, Siúil Uait, under the title "Seacht bPreab."
