Annotation:Roving Bachelor (The)

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X:1 T:Roving Bachelor R:Reel M:C| L:1/8 K:G ~B3A Bdge | ~d3e dBGA | ~B3A Bdge |1 dBAB G3A :|2 dBAB G3f || g2fg edBd | g{a}gfg ea{b}af | g2fd efge | dBAB ~G3f | g2fg edBd | g{a}gfg e~a3 | b~g3 agab | gedB ~G3A ||

ROVING BACHELOR, THE (Diolaineac fanac, An). AKA and see “A Sheamuis bhig a’ bhfuil ocras ort?” (Little Seamus are you hungry?), “Tommy Peoples'.” Irish, Reel. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (O'Neill/1850): AAB (Cole/Ryan): AABB' (O'Neill/Krassen). Bayard (1981) says this tune has some slight resemblance (which may be accidental) to his Pennsylvania-collected "Old Number Third." The tune melody appears to have some currency in County Donegal. It was recorded by Frankie Kennedy and Mairead Ní Mhaonaigh (“Tommy Peoples”), and it appears in Feldman and O’Docherty’s Northern Fiddler (1979, p. 92) set as an ‘untitled barndance’ from fiddler John Doherty, although it is a common Highland in County Donegal called “A Sheamuis Bhig a bhfuil Ocras Ort?” (Are you hungry little Seamus?).

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Source for notated version: -

Printed sources : - Cole (1000 Fiddle Tunes), 1940; p. 10. Feldman & O’Doherty (Northern Fiddler), 1979; p. 92b (appears as untitled barndance). O'Neill (Krassen), 1976; p. 141. O'Neill (Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies), 1903; No. 1450, p. 269. Ryan’s Mammoth Collection, 1883; p. 33.

Recorded sources: - Frankie Kennedy and Mairead Ní Mhaonaigh - “Ceol Aduaidh” (appears as one of two unnammed reels at the beginning of the recording, from Donegal fiddler Tommy Peoples).