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COME WEST ALONG THE ROAD (Bog Siar A Botar). AKA and see "Arboe (2)," "Monasteraden Fancy (The)," "Over the Moor to Peggy." Irish, Reel. Ireland, County Sligo. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. A version of the tune was included as an untitled reel in Book 2 (No. 153) of the large c. 1883 music manuscript collection of County Leitrim piper and fiddler biography:Stephen Grier (c. 1824-1894), although the title "Come West along the Road" first appears in Francis O'Neill's Dance Music of Ireland (1903). Philippe Varlet reports that the tune was recorded in 1925 by "Fireman" John McKenna [1] on flute and in the 1940's by the Aughrim Slopes and Moat céilíi bands (who called it "Monasteraden Fancy (The)," Monasteraden [2] being a town on the Roscommon/Sligo border, however, see also "Monasterevin Fancy (The)" named for a County Kildare town). "Over the Moor to Peggy" is a related tune.

Additional notes

Printed sources : - Flaherty (Trip to Sligo), 1990; p. 150. Harker (300 Tunes from Mike Rafferty), 2005; No. 27, p. 9. McNulty (Dance Music of Ireland), 1965; p. 6. Miller & Perron (Irish Traditional Fiddle Music vol. 3), 1977; No. 60 (appears as "Arboe"). Miller & Perron (Irish Traditional Fiddle Music), 2nd Edition, 2006; p. 57. O'Malley (Luke O'Malley's Collection of Irish Music, vol. 1), 1976; No. 59, p. 30. O'Neill (Dance Music of Ireland: 1001 Gems), 1907; No. 793, p. 137. Taylor (Music for the Sets: Yellow Book), 1995; p. 31.

Recorded sources : - Green Linnet GLCD 1155, Martin Hayes - "Under the Moon" (1995). Lochshore CDLDL 1215, Craob Rua - "The More That's Said the Less the Better" (1992).

See also listing at :
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [3]
Alan Ng's Irishtune.info [4]

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+|f_annotation='''COME WEST ALONG THE ROAD''' (Bog Siar A Botar). AKA and see "[[Arboe (2)]]," "[[Monasteraden Fancy (The)]]," "[[Over the Moor to Peggy]]." Irish, Reel. Ireland, County Sligo. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB.  A version of the tune was included as an untitled reel in Book 2 (No. 153) of the large c. 1883 music manuscript collection of County Leitrim piper and fiddler [[biography:Stephen Grier]] (c. 1824-1894), although the title "Come West along the Road" first appears in Francis O'Neill's '''Dance Music of Ireland''' (1903). Philippe Varlet reports that the tune was recorded in 1925 by "Fireman" John McKenna [http://www.mustrad.org.uk/articles/mckenna.htm] on flute and in the 1940's by the Aughrim Slopes and Moat céilíi bands (who called it "[[Monasteraden Fancy (The)]]," Monasteraden [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monasteraden] being a town on the Roscommon/Sligo border, however, see also "[[Monasterevin Fancy (The)]]" named for a County Kildare town). "[[Over the Moor to Peggy]]" is a related tune.
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