Key signature: Bminor
Submitted on December 6th 2001 by Redbird.
This tune has been added to 155 tunebooks.
Also known as A Finnish, Dennis Murphy's, Finnish, Ieva's, Ievan Polkka, Leva's, Levan Polkka.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Finnish, The
M: 2/4
L: 1/8
R: polka
K: Bmin
B>B Bc|dB Bd|cA Ac|d/c/B/A/ BF|B>B Bc|dB B2|ef/e/ dc|B2 B2:|
|:f>d df|ec cd|ef/e/ dc|Bc de|f>d df|ec cd|ef/e/ dc|B2 B2:|
Unlike such tunes as The Japanese Hornpipe, The Chinese Breakdown, The Swedish Jig and so on, I believe that this polka is actually from where it claims to be from. It was certainly very popular with Finnish musicians at the Kaustinen festival in 1997 (I think they tended to play it in A minor or G minor). Whatever its true origin, its a kickin' tune and could have come straight out of Sliabh Luachra.
# Posted on December 7th 2001 by OrganicPeatCreature
The Finnish Polka
...seems to be Levan Polkka (Leva's Polka) which was recorded as a song by a Finnish group called Loituma and has been rattling around the internet recently. I heard the song a month or two ago and then just recently realized the melody was essentially the same as this tune.
# Posted on July 25th 2006 by patrick cavanagh
Different endings
to end the A part, first time: BA BF
second time: BA Bd
to end the B pqrt: BA A2
# Posted on December 1st 2008 by sixholes