Come West Along the Road

 COME WEST ALONG THE ROAD (Bog Siar A Botar). AKA and see "Arboe [2]," "The Monasteraden Fancy," "Over the Moor to Peggy." Irish, Reel. Ireland, County Sligo. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. Philippe Varlet reports that the tune was recorded in 1925 by "Fireman" John McKenna on flute and in the 1940's by the Aughrim Slopes and Moat céilíi bands (who called it "The Monasteraden Fancy," Monasteraden being a town on the Roscommon/Sligo border). "Over the Moor to Peggy" is a related tune. Sources for notated versions: flute player and piper Frankie Lavin (b. 1940, Cloonshanville, near Frenchpark, Co. Roscommon) [Flaherty]; set dance music recorded at Na Píobairí Uilleann, mid-1980's [Taylor]; a recording of Bobby Gardiner [O'Malley]; Na Filí [Miller & Perron]; New Jersey flute player Mike Rafferty, born in Ballinakill, Co. Galway, in 1926 [Harker]. Printed sources: Flaherty (Trip to Sligo), 1990; p. 150. Harker (300 Tunes from Mike Rafferty), 2005; No. 27, p. 9. McNulty (Dance Music of Ireland), 1965; p. 6. Miller & Perron (Irish Traditional Fiddle Music), 1977; vol. 3, No. 60 (appears as "Arboe"). Miller & Perron (Irish Traditional Fiddle Music), 2nd Edition, 2006; p. 57. O'Malley (Luke O'Malley's Collection of Irish Music, vol. 1), 1976; No. 59, p. 30. O'Neill (Dance Music of Ireland: 1001 Gems), 1907; No. 793, p. 137. Taylor (Music for the Sets: Yellow Book), 1995; p. 31. Recorded sources: Green Linnet GLCD 1155, Martin Hayes - "Under the Moon" (1995). Lochshore CDLDL 1215, Craob Rua - "The More That's Said the Less the Better" (1992). See also listings at: Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources, Alan Ng's Irishtune.info

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