Annotation:Polly Wills
X:1 T:Polly Wills T:Drowsy Maggie [4] M:C L:1/8 R:Reel B:Stephen Grier music manuscript collection (Book 2, c. 1883, No. 81, p. 17) B:http://grier.itma.ie/book-two#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=16&z=-426.5894%2C528.8386%2C3646.0878%2C1275.463 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:Bmin fB B/B/B fBde|fB B/B/B eAce|fB B/B/B fBde|fgaf eAce:| fe f/g/a/b/ fBde|fe fg/a/ eAce|fe f/g/a/b/ fBde|fgaf eAce| fe f/g/a/b/ fBde|fd fg/a/ eAce|ffe fedB|A2 af eAce|| f2 Bb fBde|f2 Ba eAce|f2Bb fBde|fgaf eAce| f2 Bb fBde|f2 Ba eAce|fB bB aA gA|fgaf eAce||
POLLY WILLS. AKA and see "Drowsy Maggie (4)."Irish (?), Reel (whole time). B Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABC. The reel was entered as "Polly Wills" into Book 2 of the c. 1883 music manuscript collection of County Leitrim fiddler and piper biography:Stephen Grier (c. 1824-1894). However, it was earlier printed in Alexander's Fifty New Scottish and Irish Reels and Hornpipes (c. 1826) under the title "Drowsy Maggie (4)"
