Annotation:Come West Along the Road
X:1 T:Untitled N:A version of "Come West along the Road" M:4/4 L:1/8 R:Reel B:Stephen Grier music manuscript collection (Book 2, c. 1883, No. 153) N:Stephen Grier (c. 1824-1894) was a piper and fiddler from N:Newpark, Bohey, Gortletteragh, south Co. Leitrim. Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:G d2 BG dGGB|d2 Bd efge|d2 BG dG G2|1 BABd efge:|2 BABd e2 ef|| g2 bg ef/g/ dg|egdg egdg|g2 bg ef/g/ dc|BABd e2 ef| g2 bg ef/g/ dg|egdg eg d2|efgf ef g2|BABd efge||
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). 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.
