Annotation:Pullet and the Cock (The)

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X:1 T:Pullet and the cock, The M:C L:1/8 S:Stanford/Petrie (1905), No. 585 Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:G d>c |: BG E>D E2 D>E | GE D>B, D2 dc | BGE>D E2 D>E | GABG A2 G>A :| GAGF GBdB | cBAB cdec | BcBA GABG | AGBG AGE>F | GAGF GBdB | cBAB cdef | gage dedB | cBAG A>cBA ||



PULLET AND THE COCK, THE. AKA - "Pullet run from the cock." AKA and see "Drag Her Around the Road (1)," "Shores of Lough Graney," "Tarraing thar timpeall an bhóthair í." Irish, Reel. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. The tune is an early version of the reel best known nowadays as "Drag Her Around the Road (1)." As "Pullet run from the cock" the tune was entered into Book 2 of the large c. 1883 music manuscript collection of County Leitrim fiddler and piper biography:Stephen Grier.

Additional notes

Source for notated version: - “From (collector) biography:Frank Keane” [Stanford/Petrie].

Printed sources : - Stanford/Petrie (Complete Collection), 1905; No. 585, p. 148.

Recorded sources: -

See also listing at:
Alan Ng's Irishtune.info [1]



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