Folkvisa 1 (Sweden)

Uti vår Hage

Jag vet en dejlig rosa

Old melodies, lyrics about love, short summer... and flowers..,

and happiness,... and of course some ingredients of melancholy.

Two beautiful examples in the shyful, but fully shining, northern minor light.

Folkvisa 2 (Sweden)

Vårvindar friska
Gellivaravisan
These two are from the northern parts.

Folkvisa 3 (Sweden)

Skära skära havre
Igelkottaskinnet

Folkvisa 4 (Sweden)

Limu Limu Lima

Per Speleman

Flickan hon går i dansen

Per Speleman ( "Per the player/musician") is maybe more known as Norwegian tune, but it´s been well known across the border.

Folkvisa 5 (Sweden)

Nu ska vi skörda linet idag
Jungfrun gick åt killan
Sju vackra flickor i en ring

Come Back Liza (Caribian,West-Indies)

This melody have the right qualities in it´s environment, - and the lyrical english is something like my own (the punk talks). It´s a must to have other rhythms against the melody, to find the idea of afroamerican polyrhythmics. If you are many, double the melody, but the lead part shall never "take over" the pot. Simple bassline is often good solution in this kind of music. (Maybe, I said maybe, ...that´s also one of the faces in rockmusic)

Vi äro musikanter (Sweden)

Well known traditional (children´s) tune in Sweden, appears specially during time for midsummer or christmas. (Vi är o musikanter = We are musicians ) French roots, I think, as several other well known older melodies (f x Twinkle Little Star) , communicating immediate, more than, in the sense of ability to intellectual analyze. (Maybe, I said maybe, that´s also one the faces of rockmusic....)

WALK RIGHT IN (USA)

This been popular for many decades. Melody is a little bit odd construction, but catchy of it´s kind, - not a boogie, not most typical country, not jazz really - but it can swing, even be rocky.

Sailor´s Hornpipe (USA version)

This strictly instrumental tune may go all the way back to one of the great inventors in classical music, J.S. Bach. One version I have noticed was called "Bach Goes to Sea". I think this version is Northamerican.

BIRK´s WORKS (USA)

Bluestheme in the jazz idiom.