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Theme code Index	1H3H51 1H3H2H3H
Also known as	Pretty Peg, Bill Clancy's Delight, Ladies' Delight
Composer/Core Source
Region	Canada, Ireland, Scotland
Genre/Style	Cape Breton/PEI, Irish, Scottish
Meter/Rhythm	Reel (single/double)
Key/Tonic of	D
Accidental	2 sharps
Mode	Ionian (Major)
Time signature	2/2
History	CANADA(Maritimes/English)
Structure	AAB
Editor/Compiler	Biography:James S. Kerr
Book/Manuscript title	Book:Merry Melodies vol. 2
Tune and/or Page number	No. 140, p. 17
Year of publication/Date of MS	c. 1880's
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T:Pretty Peggy [1]
M:C|
L:1/8
R:Reel
B:Stewart-Robertson – The Athole Collection (1884)
Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion
K:D
A|d2fd AFDA|d2fd e/f/g fe|d2fd AFDF|GEFD CEE:|
A|F/E/D AD BDAD|G/F/D G/F/D CEEG|G/F/D AD BDAD|GFED A,DDA|
G/F/D dD cDBD|AD G/F/D CEEG|FAdf ecdB|BFGE FDD||

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T:Untitled Reel
M:C|
L:1/8
R:Reel
S:”Michael B. Shanahan”
N:A version of "Pretty Peggy [1]." 
N:In 2/4 time in ms. 
S:P.D. Reidy music manuscript collection, London, 1890’s (No. 12)
N:”Professor” Patrick Reidy of Castleisland was a dancing 
N:master engaged by the Gaelic League in London to teach 
N:dance classes. He introduced “Siege of Ennis” and “Walls 
N:of Limerick” ceili dances and wrote a treatise on dancing.
N:Reidy told O’Neill that his source, Shanahan was a “celebrated
N:violinist”, the son of a piper born in Kilrush, Co. Clare, with a 
N:great reputation in Kerry and Limerick in the 1860’s. It is unclear
N:where Shanahan was in relation to his acquaintance with Reidy
N:(i.e. in London or Ireland).  
F: http://rarebooks.library.nd.edu/digital/bookreader/MSE_1434-1/#page/1/mode/1up
Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion
K:Dmix
d2 (fd) AFDc|d2 (fd) (3efg fe|d2 fd AFDF|(3GFE (3FED EB, B,2:|
(3FED AD BDAD|(3FED (3FED DE E2|(3FED AD BDAD|(3FED (3FED A,C C2|
(3FED dD cD BD|ADFD CEEG|FAdf ecdB|AFGE FD D||

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T:Pretty Peg [1]
R:Reel
D:Altan 
Z:Adrian Scahill 
M:4/4 
L:1/8 
K:D 
(3ABc|d2fd ADFA|defd (3efg fe|defd AFDF|(3GFE (3FED CEEA:|| 
(3FED AD BDAD|(3FED AD CEEG|(3FED AD BDAD|FDAD A,DDG| 
(3FED dD cDBD|ADFD CEEG|FAdf ecdB|AFEF D4:||

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