X:1
T: Peggy Reilly
M:C
L:1/8
R:Reel
N:The first strain is cognate with “Because He was a Bonny Lad”
B:Stephen Grier music manuscript collection (Book 2, c. 1883, No. 100, p. 22)
B:http://grier.itma.ie/book-two#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=21&z=-230.5038%2C169.9416%2C3070.4826%2C1234.6572
N:Stephen Grier (c. 1824-1894) was a piper and fiddler from
N:Newpark, Bohey, Gortletteragh, south Co. Leitrim.
Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion
K:A
cBAa fg/a/ ec|dfec BB/B/ B2|cBAa fg/a/ ec|dfec AA/A/ A2:|
cB/A/ eA fAeA|dfec BB/B/ B2|cB/A/ eA fAeA|dfec AA/A/ A2|
cB/A/ eA fAeA|dfec BB/B/ B2|cB/A/ eA fAgA|afec AA/A/ A2||
PEGGY REILLY. The reel appears in Book 2 of County Leitrim piper and fiddler biography:Stephen Grier's (c. 1824-1894) music manuscript collection, complied in the early 1880's. The first strain is cognate with the "Because He was a Bonny Lad" family of tunes.
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