Annotation:Your Mother’s Fair Pet
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YOUR MOTHER'S FAIR PET ("Peata Geal do Mhátar"). AKA and see "Basket of Oysters (4) (The)" (Goodman), "Patha gal do vaher," "I'm Ready Now," "Mulvey's Reel," "Our House at Home." Irish, Reel. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'B. The title is similar to "Mama's Pet." Variants include “Our House at Home” and “Mulvey’s Reel” from the County Leitrim collections of Alex Sutherland and Stephen Grier, respectively (William Mulvey was a piper who inherited the Grier collection). See also the related “Is Trua gan Peata 'n Mhaoir agam (1)” from Petrie’s collection.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: O'Neill (Dance Music of Ireland: 1001 Gems), 1907; No. 615, p. 111.
Recorded sources:
See also listing at:
Alan Ng's Irishtune.info [1]