Annotation:Angry Peeler (The)
X:1 T:Angry Peeler, The M:6/8 L:1/8 R:Jig S:O'Neill - Dance Music of Ireland: 1001 Gems (1907), No. 251 Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:G B/c/BA GED|DED GED|BAB dBG|ABA A3| B/c/BA GED|DED GED|BAB dBG|DEG G3:| |:B/c/BA Bcd|ege dBG|BAB dBG|FAA A3| B/c/BA Bcd|ege dBG|BAB GED|EGG G3:||
ANGRY PEELER, THE. Irish, Jig (6/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. A 'peeler' was, and still sometimes is, a slang term for a policeman in the British Isles, and in America until about 1890. A version was entered as an untitled jig in Book 3 of the large music manuscript collection of County Leitrim fiddler and piper biography:Stephen Grier (c. 1824-1894). See also the related "Fardown Farmer (The)" in O'Neill's Music of Ireland (1903). "Joe Cooley's Jig" and "Boys of Thomastown" also appear to share related melodic material.