Annotation:Peggy on the Settle
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PEGGY ON THE SETTLE (Mairgreadin air an suideacan). AKA - "Pegg in the Settle." AKA and see "Drousy Maggie," "Kitty Clover's." Irish, Reel. A Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. The reel appears in Ryan's Mammoth Collection (1883) as "Kitty Clover's," while Frank Roche printed it as "Drousy Maggie" in his 1927 collection (not to be confused with the more familiar "Drowsy Maggie (1)" tunes). See also the related first strain of “In and Out the Harbor.” There are also similarities to "Boil the Breakfast Early," but perhaps not enough to name it as a cognate tune.
The 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica explains: "A settle is a wooden bench, usually with arms and a high back, long enough to accommodate three or four sitters." [1]
