There’s a brilliant version of this Finnish polka on “The Art of the Finnish Kantele” which I feel would be good adapted for a dance set. Well-defined low strings on this version.
I can only find another short sound snippet on line - very different again..not so nice IMO.
Anybody have an ABC/sheet music of The Fighting Polka/Tappelupolkka, please?
Sorry, no ABC, but I remember the lyrics from my childhood (ca. 1959)–pray excuse my terrible accents:
Sheep’ç a nitssy bittseâ
Täjny wëeny
Tappelu polkkä døt
Beak Annie (…)
Haa haa haa…dry echo…
Trisha
I don’t need spectacles that badly, Zoob :roll: 
FYI the Kantele version has a simplified plucked bass string melody and sounds very good indeed…
I cana see me sheeps in polka dots 
You got sheeps too RBM? Mine do…most are Jacobs wiv lotsa spots.
Trisha
castlemilk moorits.
Pic entitled “Sheep in the Welsh fog”…can’t copy to C&F for some reason..
Dear Zoob…can you tell me how to shrink that sheet music so it fits on to something smaller than the side of a house?!
All attempts have failed thus far..
Trisha
Excuse me Zub, am I dumb (or just Finnish…) but what does that mean?
/Arto
Yes please Zub. Please post a smaller version or maybe you could e-mail me it please. It sounds good and I need sheet music to play from.
Selkie
Read it out loud, while thinking in English. Ignore what’s written on the page, and pay attention only to the sounds. It should then start to make more sense…
Steven
Yeah…in high school french (oh so long ago) I had to read the following:
Pis terre, Pis terre
Pomme qui nie terre (etc)
which, roughly translates into “Worse earth, worse earth, apple who denies earth..”
Point is, if you can pronounce French out loud it says something else.
Please excuse me, Arto:
this was just an innocent prank (and a lot of a private one ongoing twix a fine Welsh [though llama-ish] lady and me).
The “accents” are just a ridiculous (and unfair) rendering of what Scandinavian spelling appears to be to some Monty Python fans like me (agreed, with a total amalgamation of Sweden, Norway, and Finland) with no harm or dissing intended. Just to make it clear, Sibelius is among my favourite five composers of past century, ok? May be of any time, too…
Now, the “lyrics” I wrote are my phonetic interpretation of one of the worst pop tunes of the late 50’s… “It’s just an eetsy-bitsy teeny-weeny yellow polkadot bikini”.
I just can’t help being silly: it’s my prime nature! I try and cure it, but when I’m serious, I’ll be old.
PS: Trisha and Selkie, follow the net link: it’s not my fault if it’s posted this huge. It just happens so. Selkie–ok, I’ll shrink it Photoshop, try and mail it to you condensed.
Peter, Peter,
Pumpkin eater?
Zub. I’ve managed to save it and print it normal size and have it in sheet music now. One question… the chords. H7??? What is the chord H7 oh and it’s far too fast for me to play at 123. But a nice tune. Now to work out where the repeats are as mine is going round and round and not stopping.
Selkie - you really must hear the kantele version. It is just so good. How come Zoob after daring to call me Welsh…when he knows fine well I’m a Scot 
didn’t send me a copy…
Trisha 
H = B-natural (in German)
OK I squeenched it down to hopefully better fit a web page, still a big sucker, though:
