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|f_annotation='''BE EASY, YOU ROGUE''' (Fan Go Socair A Roguire). AKA and see "[[Phelim O'Neill (1)]]," "[[Priest with the Collar (The)]]," "[[Sheelah in Sorrow]]," "[[Stay Easy You Rogue Stay Stay]]" (Stad erro rogura stad stad)," "[[Stop You Rogue Stop!]]" "[[Tá an coileach ag fógairt an lae]]." Irish, Double or Single Jig (6/8 time). A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB (O'Farrell): AABBCCDD (O'Neill). "Be Easy, You Rogue" is O'Neill's 'free translation' of the Irish title "Stadh a rogaire stadh!" O'Neill also remarks that his version is a "florid setting of an old jig or march in four strains. Its relationship to 'The Priest with the Collar' in the Petrie collections is plainly evident." Uilleann piper O'Farrell printed a two-part version (as, indeed, most versions are) in the beginning of the 19th century as "[[Stad Erro Rogura Stad Stad]]," a phonetic approximation of the title in Irish Gaelic; they are, as Paul de Grae points out, very close to the first two strains in O'Neill's setting<ref>Paul de Grae, "Sources of Music in the O'Neill Collections", 2017</ref>. Collector George Petrie's two settings of "[[A "Róg"-aire! Stad!]]" (Rogue! Stop!) are similar to one another, states de Grae, and close to O'Neill's setting (although less than O'Farrell's), at least in the first part<ref>ibid.</ref>.
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The first strain is shared with a number of tunes including the double jig "[[Stagger the Buck]]" (also printed by O'Neill), "which is actually closer to Petrie's settings cited above"<ref>ibid.</ref>.  O'Neill also prints another version of the jig under the title "[[Priest with the Collar (The)]]" in his '''Music of Ireland''' (1903), a title given as an alternate title for "Be Easy, You Rogue" in O'Neill's later volume '''Dance Music of Ireland''' (1907).  O'Sullivan and McCandless (2005) identify the melody as a version of "When the Cock Crows it is Day," which de Grae clarifies is the version called "[[Tá an Coileach ag Fógairt an Lae]]" in Breathnach's '''Ceol Rince na hEirreann, vol. 2''' (No. 68)--"note that O'Neill's "[[When the Cock Crows it is Day (1)]]" is considerably different. Stretching the connections a little bit further, Bunting's "[[Beardless Boy (The)]]" and "[[Dissipated Youth (1) (The)]]" might be considered part of the same tune family<ref>ibid.</ref>."
|f_source_for_notated_version=from the manuscript collection of retired businessman and Irish music enthusiast John Gillan, collected from musicians in his home county of Longford and the adjoining Leitrim [O'Neill]. 
|f_printed_sources=O'Farrell ('''Pocket Companion, vol. 1'''), c. 1805; p. 31 (appears as "Stad Erro Rogura Stad Stad"). O'Neill ('''O'Neill's Irish Music'''), 1915; No. 165, p. 92. O'Neill ('''Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies'''), 1903; No. 1109, p. 209. O'Neill ('''Dance Music of Ireland: 1001 Gems'''), 1907; No. 299, p. 64. 
|f_recorded_sources=Jerry O'Sullivan - "O'Sullivan meets O'Farrell" (2005).
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