Dwight tune #17 - Antti & Arto Järvelä - Where has my little dog gone / Honka-Leanterin häävalssi

It is Saturday May 16th and it&Dwight Lamb&birthday, so let&have a party with his tunes and friends from all around! 🎶🕯🎻🎥📣🇩🇰🇺🇸🌞 Also we think it&worth celebrating, that the tune book "Dwight Lamb&Danish Tunes - 2nd edition with 5 bonus tunes added" is now out and available with International Shipping, published by our great Copenhagen-based Edition Svitzer! With that in hand everyone can join the jam! Our great friends Antti & Arto Järvelä from Kaustinen, Finland contributed with this sweet waltz video, thank you so much for that! The version that they are playing is called Honka-Leanterin häävalssi and it&a Wedding waltz from the repertoire of Leander Honga (1837-1917) from Kokkola in Finland. We found the waltz on an old tape that Dwight has recorded with his grandfather, Chris Jerup. Dwight says everyone played this melody when he was a kid and that it sometimes simply was called ”The Little Dog Waltz.” He remembers the lyrics to be: ”Where, oh where has my little dog gone? Where, oh where can he be? With his hair cut short and his tail cut long. Where, oh where can he be?” When Mette and Kristian heard it, they were reminded of a waltz that the famous fiddle player Frederik Iversen from their hometown of Vejle had played and which he called ”Provinsvals” (Provincial Waltz.) The A‐part is also very similar to the first part of a melody known in the Midwest as ”Lauterbach Waltz.” We hope that this can be good timing right now for some of you tune players out there.