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COME WEST ALONG THE ROAD (Bog siar a botar). AKA - "AKA and see "Arboe (2)," "Hop along the Road," "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). The title "Come West along the Road" first appears in Francis O'Neill's Dance Music of Ireland (1903), although a similar title for the tune, "Hop along the Road," was entered into the 1880's music manuscript collection of John Kerrigan of Enniscrone, Co. Sligo. "Over the Moor to Peggy" is a related tune.

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).

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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