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Å jenta å ja AKA - "Harry's Hambo, "Jenta Och Ja." Norwegian, Air (3/4 time). D Major (Nowlan & Williams). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The title means "My girl and me." This is a Norwegian folk song, the words to which appear in a 1901 collection of folk songs and ballads. The melody is used for the Swedish hambo or Norwegian pols dance. North Dakota-born Norwegian-American fiddler Harry Johnson introduced it to fiddlers in Washington State, who called it "Harry's Hambo."


Additional notes
Source for notated version : - Harry Johnson (Bothel, Washington) [Nowlan & Williams]. Johnson learned old Norwegian tunes as a boy from his cousin and grandfather in North Dakota.

Printed sources : - Nowlan & Williams (The Evergreen Fiddler vol. II), 2006; p. 4.






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