Archy Boylan

X:1 T:Archy Boylan M:2/4 L:1/8 S:Stanford/Petrie (1905), No. 744 Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:Eb G/A/ | BB BA/B/ | c>B AF | AF EE | E3 || G/A/ | BB Bc/d/ | ee ed/e/ | f>e _dc/B/ | c3 c/B/ | BB Bc/d/ | ee ed/e/ | f>e _dc/B/ | c3 d/c/ | BB BA/B/ | c>B AF | AF EE | E3 ||



Collector George Petrie, in his Petrie Collection of the Ancient Music of Ireland, said he had the tune from a “near connection: of his, who had learned it when she was young from an elderly lady by the name of Betty Skillin. Petrie thought the air a “common Anglo-Irish street ballad” and preserved only the title, and noted that the melody had a common ballad phrase construction: ABB’A’.

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