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|f_annotation='''COME WEST ALONG THE ROAD''' (Bog siar a bótar). 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. | |f_annotation='''COME WEST ALONG THE ROAD''' (Bog siar a bótar). AKA - "Bongsheir Abher." 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. | ||
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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). | |||
|f_sources_for_notated_versions=flute player and piper Frankie Lavin (b. 1940, Cloonshanville, near Frenchpark, Co. Roscommon) [Flaherty]; set dance music recorded at Na Píobairí Uilleann, mid-1980's [Taylor]; a recording of Bobby Gardiner [O'Malley]; Na Filí [Miller & Perron]; New Jersey flute player Mike Rafferty, born in Ballinakill, Co. Galway, in 1926 [Harker]. | |f_sources_for_notated_versions=flute player and piper Frankie Lavin (b. 1940, Cloonshanville, near Frenchpark, Co. Roscommon) [Flaherty]; set dance music recorded at Na Píobairí Uilleann, mid-1980's [Taylor]; a recording of Bobby Gardiner [O'Malley]; Na Filí [Miller & Perron]; New Jersey flute player Mike Rafferty, born in Ballinakill, Co. Galway, in 1926 [Harker]. | ||
|f_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. | |f_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. | ||
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COME WEST ALONG THE ROAD (Bog siar a bótar). AKA - "Bongsheir Abher." 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).
