Annotation:Stick the Peelers
X:1 T:Stick the Peelers M:12/8 L:1/8 R:Slide B:Stephen Grier music manuscript collection (1883, Book 4, No. 29, p. 7) N:Grier (c. 1824-1894) was a fiddler and uilleann piper originally N:from north Longford, but who moved around 1852 to Newpark, N:Bohey, Gortletteragh, south Leitrim. F: https://manuscripts.itma.ie/grier/book-four/ Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:Amix ecA AcA ecA Bcd|ecA AcA dBG Bcd| ecA AcA ecA Bcd|e2f gfe dBG Bcd|| ecAS ecA ecA Bcd|ecA ecA dBG Bcd| ecA ecA ecA Bcd|e2f gfe dBG Bcd| ecA ecA ecA Bcd|ecA ecA dBG Bcd| ecA AcA gbg faf|e2f gfe dBG Bcd|| e2a aga ecA Bcd|e2f gfe dBG Bcd| e2a a2f g2e f2d|e2f gfe dBG Bcd| e2a aga ecA Bcd|e2f gfe|dBG Bcd| ecA AcA gbg faf|e2f gfe|dBG Bcd||
STICK THE PEELERS. Irish, Slide (12/8 time). A Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABC. "Stick the Peelers" was entered in Book 4 of County Leitrim musician [[biography:Stephen Grier|]]'s c. 1883 large music manuscript collection. It is undoubtedly from piping repertory. Compare the first strain with that of P.W. Joyce's "Old Jerry Doyle."
