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|f_track=Mummers March.mp3
|f_track=George Booker.mp3
|f_pdf=Dreghedy March.pdf
|f_pdf=George Booker.pdf
|f_artwork=Irishmummers.jpg
|f_artwork=George Booker Grave.jpg
|f_tune_name=Droghedy March
|f_tune_name=George_Booker_(1)
|f_track_title=Droghedy March
|f_track_title=George Booker
|f_section=abc
|f_section=abc
|f_played_by=[https://soundcloud.com/maggiesansone Maggie Sansone]
|f_played_by=[https://soundcloud.com/trad-tune-collection Fionnlagh Ballantine]
|f_notes= Irish Mummers.
|f_notes= Revolutionary War citizen patriot George Booker’s grave marker.
|f_caption=Then the Mummer's play commences,{{break}}
|f_caption=Researcher Chris Goertzen elaborates that this George Booker served as a militia lieutenant in the Revolutionary War and lived in Knauff's area of Farmville, Virginia; probably the same individual who was a local lawyer by 1809.
When St. George so bold advances,{{break}}
|f_source=[https://soundcloud.com/trad-tune-collection/reel-george-booker Soundcloud]
Tells of "draggins, elves, and jyants" {{break}}
He has killed, and hurls defiance;  
|f_source=[https://soundcloud.com/maggiesansone/mummers-march Soundcloud]
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|f_article=[[Droghedy March| '''Droghedy March''']]
|f_article=[[George_Booker_(1)| '''George Booker''']]


The title of the melody probably refers to Charles Moore, 2nd Viscount Drogheda who as involved in the siege of that same town in 1642. He was killed in clashes with Owen Roe O'Neill in 1643. The title may also be a corruption of the Irish word ''draiocht'', meaning magic (see note for "[[Drocketty's March]]").
The melody first appears under the "Booker" title in George P. Knauff's '''Virginia Reels''', volume III (Baltimore, 1839), apparently in honor of a Revolutionary War leader and local hero from Virginia (according to Jabbour). Researcher Chris Goertzen elaborates that this George Booker served as a militia lieutenant in the Revolutionary War and lived in Knauff's area of Farmville, Virginia; probably the same individual who was a local lawyer by 1809. Goertzen points out that the Booker family name "is common in the little cemeteries that dot Prince Edward County farms" <ref>Chris Goertzen,'''George P. Knauff's Virginia Reels and the History of American Fiddling''', 2017, p. 65.</ref>. Bruce Green thinks this tune may have been brought to the southern Kentucky region by a fiddler named John Gregory, originally from Virginia (in connection with similar Kentucky melodies, see Ed Hayley's "[[Grey Eagle Jig]]"). The tune was recorded for the Library of Congress by musicologist/folklorist Vance Randolph in the early 1940's from Ozarks Mountains fiddlers (including Lon Jordan in 1941), although Drew Beisswenger (2008) says it is not often played by Ozarks fiddlers today. Alan Jabbour believes "George Booker" is similar to "[[Camp Chase]]" and speculates that the former may have been the tune originally played in the Civil War prison camp which gave West Virginia fiddler Solly Carpenter his freedom.  
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A "Droghedy's March" from county Wexford is described by Patrick Kennedy in 1812 in his book '''On the Banks of the Boro''':
<blockquote>
''The tune called Droghedy's March was occasionally danced to among the''
''hornpipes, by a performer furnished with a short cudgel in each hand, which''
''he brandished and clashed in harmony with the tune. But we had the good fortune''
''to see it performed in a complete fashion on the borders of the barony of Bargy,''
''in the old manor-house of Coolcul, whose young men, joined by the stout''
''servants and labourers on the farms, were well able, in country parlance, to''
''clear a fair. Amongst these the present chronicler was initiated into the''
''mysteries of mumming, and was taught to bear his part in that relic of the''
''Pyrrhic or Druidic dance, "Droghedy's March."
</blockquote>
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Revision as of 10:01, 11 March 2023



Researcher Chris Goertzen elaborates that this George Booker served as a militia lieutenant in the Revolutionary War and lived in Knauff's area of Farmville, Virginia; probably the same individual who was a local lawyer by 1809.
George_Booker_(1)

Played by: Fionnlagh Ballantine
Source: Soundcloud
Image: Revolutionary War citizen patriot George Booker’s grave marker.

George Booker

The melody first appears under the "Booker" title in George P. Knauff's Virginia Reels, volume III (Baltimore, 1839), apparently in honor of a Revolutionary War leader and local hero from Virginia (according to Jabbour). Researcher Chris Goertzen elaborates that this George Booker served as a militia lieutenant in the Revolutionary War and lived in Knauff's area of Farmville, Virginia; probably the same individual who was a local lawyer by 1809. Goertzen points out that the Booker family name "is common in the little cemeteries that dot Prince Edward County farms" [1]. Bruce Green thinks this tune may have been brought to the southern Kentucky region by a fiddler named John Gregory, originally from Virginia (in connection with similar Kentucky melodies, see Ed Hayley's "Grey Eagle Jig"). The tune was recorded for the Library of Congress by musicologist/folklorist Vance Randolph in the early 1940's from Ozarks Mountains fiddlers (including Lon Jordan in 1941), although Drew Beisswenger (2008) says it is not often played by Ozarks fiddlers today. Alan Jabbour believes "George Booker" is similar to "Camp Chase" and speculates that the former may have been the tune originally played in the Civil War prison camp which gave West Virginia fiddler Solly Carpenter his freedom.

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George Booker


  1. ↑ Chris Goertzen,George P. Knauff's Virginia Reels and the History of American Fiddling, 2017, p. 65.
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