Joan Ambrosio Dalza (fl. 1508) was an Italian lutenist and composer. Nothing is known about his life. His surviving works comprise the fourth volume of Ottaviano Petrucci's influential series of lute music publications, Intabolatura de lauto libro quarto (Venice, 1508). Dalza is referred to as "milanese" in the preface, so it must be assumed he was either born in Milan, or worked there, or both.
Together with the oeuvres of Francesco Spinacino and Vincenzo Capirola, Dalza's work constitutes an important part of early Renaissance lute music. The surviving pieces comprise 42 dances, nine ricercares, five tastar de corde, four intabulations and a piece called Caldibi castigliano. The dances are arranged in miniature suites. Each of the five pavanes (five alla venetiana, four alla ferrarese) is followed by a saltarello and a piva that are thematically and harmonically related to it. Other groupings include pairs of tastar de corde with a recercar dietro. Some pieces, such as Caldibi castigliano and those titled Calate ala spagnola, show Spanish influence, possibly because of vihuela cultivation in 16th century Italy.
Hey girl
Where in the world
Did you come from
Hey girl where in the world
Do you belong
(I said)
Hey girl watching you
Walk is like a dream
Hey girl you got a nerve and
You sure got
As I wanted, singing lost and found
Like a fever running,
We could clear this
Town
(I said) Hey girl where in the world
Did you come from
Hey girl nobody knows where
You belong
So why don't you tell me
You're hanging above me
There's room
Everywhere
And I can't walk on air
Hey girl
(I said) Hey girl where in the
World
Did you come from
Hey girl never return cause you belong
I said Hey