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BANG YOUR EYE. AKA and see "Bung Your Eye." Scottish, Jig. A Minor. Standard. AABB. Carlin (Master Collection), 1984; pg. 97 (#165). Karpeles & Schofield (A Selection of 100 English Folk Dance Airs), 1951; pg. 26 (apprears as "Bung Your Eye").

BLOOMING MEADOWS [1] (An Moinfeur Fionnsgotac). AKA and see "Cover the Buckle," "Down the Hill," "Down With the Tithes," "Hag and Her Praskeen," "Humors of Milltown." Irish, Double Jig. G Major. Standard. AAB (O'Neill/1915): AABB (Cole, Joyce, Roche): AABB' (O'Neill/1850 & 1001). Bayard believes the first strain of this tune group was developed from "Bung Your Eye." "Trip it Along," "Humours of Ballinafauna," and "Humors of Castle Comer" are variants. Charlie Piggott, in the essay on Kilmaley, County Clare, fiddler, flute player and uilleann piper Peader O'Loughlin in his book Blooming Meadows (1998), remarks on tunes being disseminated into local, isolated traditions in Ireland by visiting musicians. It is remembered that "Blooming Meadows" was introduced into O'Loughlin's Kilmaley-Connolly, Clare, area by travelling piper Jerry O'Shea many generations ago. Cole (1001 Fiddle Tunes), 1940; pg. 56. Joyce (Ancient Irish Music), 1873/1890; No. 85, pg. 87. O'Neill (1915 ed.), 1987; No. 146, pg. 84. O'Neill (1850), 1903/1979; No. 917, pg. 171. O'Neill (1001 Gems), 1907/1986; No. 304, pg. 65. Roche Collection, 1982; Vol. 1, No. 115, pg. 48 (appears as "Down the Hill").
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M:6/8
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BONNIE STRATHMORE. Scottish, Jig. A Minor (Kerr's, Lerwick): A Dorian (Gatherer). Standard. AABB. A variant of "Bung Your Eye," and so also related to "The Antrim Lasses," " Tatter Jack," " The Boys of Carrigallen," and "Mount Your Baggage." See note for "Lanigan's Ball." Gatherer (Gatherer's Musical Museum), 1987; pg. 21. Kerr (Merry Melodies), Vol. 3; No. 288, pg. 31. Lerwick (Kilted Fiddler), 1985; pg. 36.

BOYS OF CARRIGALLEN, THE. Irish, Air (6/8 time, "cheerful"). A Dorian. Standard. AABB. A variant of "Bung Your Eye." O'Neill (1850), 1903/1979; No. 210, pg. 37.

BRISK YOUNG LAD('S), THE. AKA and see "Brisk Irish Lad," "Mary the Maid," "Bung Your Eye," "The Jolly Old Man," "There Came A Young Man." Irish, English, American; Slide or Jig. USA, New England. G Minor (Raven): A Minor (Cole, Miller & Perron, Tolman). Standard. AABB. Composition credited to one Tom Doyle in Cole's 1001. Cole (1001 Fiddle Tunes), 1940; pg. 74. Kerr (Merry Melodies), Vol. 1; No. or pg. 31. Miller & Perron (Irish Traditional Fiddle Music), 1983; No. 16. Raven (English Country Dance Tunes), 1984; pg. 118. Tolman (Nelson Music Collection), 1969; pg. 1. F&W Records 2, "F&W String Band 2." Fretless 200a, Yankee Ingenuity--"Kitchen Junket."

BUNG YOUR EYE. AKA and see "Bang Your Eye," "Brisk Young Lads," "High Cauld Cap," "The Jolly Old Man," "Mary the Maid." Scottish, Jig. A Minor. Standard. ABB (Sharp): AABB (Gow, Karpeles, Kennedy, Williamson). This melody was published in the "Bodleian MS" (1740) {named for the library in which it resides--the Bodleian Library, Oxford} and is inscribed A Collection of the Newest Country Dances Performed in Scotland written at Edinburgh by D.A. Young, W.M. 1740. Originally set by Young as a country dance (to which he gives directions), Karpeles notes that this tune is also suitable as an accompaniment to Rapper Sword Dance. Glen (1891) reported he found the tune earliest in print in Robert Ross's 1780 collection (pg. 1), and evidently did not know of the Bodleian MS. Samuel Bayard (1981) believes the piece to be a "recognizable version" of a tune family that includes "Lanigan's Ball," "Lumps of Pudding," "Kittly Alone," "Muirland Willie," and "O As I Was Kist Yestreen." Close variants of the "Bung Your Eye" strain of the family are: "Off to the Hunt", "The Antrim Lasses," "Tatter Jack," "The Boys of Carrigallen," "Mount Your Baggage," and "Bonnie Strathmore."
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The term 'bung your eye' means to 'shut your eye', a meaning taken from the bung or cork used to stopper a hole in a cask, for example. In the song "The Bold Irishman," an early 19th century broadside sheet ballad which relates the perils of an immigrant in a new land, the phrase 'bung your eye' implies a threat to beat the protagonist until his eyes are shut:
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A blustering bully with a head like a Turk
Says welcome from Ireland, sweet Paddy from Cork
Arrah turn you round Pat, for I've been a kin
For I never yet see a coat buttoned behind
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A beef headed butcher was then standing by
Cries Paddy you rogue I'll bung up your eye
Such blustering words made my heart ache
For fear of my eyes not a word dare I speak
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Paddy prevails in the end, turning the tables on the two bullies:
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The bully that said he'd bung up my eye,
I tipt him a grinder as I passed by,
I let him to know as he lay in his gore,
That an Irishmans coat was buttoned before
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See also note to "Lanigan's Ball." Gow (Complete Repository), Part 1, 1799; pg. 21. Karpeles & Schofield (A Selection of 100 English Folk Dance Airs), 1951; pg. 26. Kennedy (Fiddler's Tune Book), Vol. 2, 1954; pg. 42 (appears as "Mary the Maid"). Sharp (Country Dance Tunes), 1909/1994; pg. 58. Williamson (English, Welsh, Scottish and Irish Fiddle Tunes), 1976, pg. 50.
T:Bung your Eye
L:1/8
M:6/8
S:Gow - 1st Repository
K:A Minor
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FAIR AND AISY (I'LL BE RID OF HER). AKA and see "Fair and Aisy I'll Get Out of It," "Kick the Pope." American, March (6/8) or Jig. D Major. Standard. AB. The original Irish title was "Kick the Pope," while the title above and the 1st alternate were the inspiration of old Scottish fifer Dick Gibson in an effort to gentrify the Orange sensibilities of the Pope title. Bayard (1981) belives it belongs to the same tune group as "Bung Your Eye", and to the larger "Welcome Home" tune family. Source for notated version: Hiram Horner (fifer from Westmoreland and Fayette Counties, Pa., 1960) [Bayard]. Bayard (Dance to the Fiddle), 1981; No. 605A-B, pgs. 534-535.

JOLLY OLD MAN (An Sean Duine Sugac). AKA and see "Brisk Young Lad," "Brisk Irish Lad," "Bung Your Eye," "There came a young man." Irish, Double Jig. A Dorian. Standard. AAB. The title comes from the Chicago collector, Captain Francis O'Neill O'Neill, who had the untitled tune from Jimmy O'Brien, a County Mayo piper who spent a few months in Chicago in the 1870's. O'Neill describes him as "a neat, tasty Irish piper of the Connacht school of close players, and though his Union pipes were small, they were sweet and musical." The 'jolly old man' of the title was the elderly father of a family of flute playing sons, who tried his best to dance a certain jig step to O'Brien's piping. "He appealed to the piper, in strident tones, 'Single it, single it; I can't double with the other foot.' This concession granted, he continued for a time, amidst great applause." O'Neill named the tune in honor of Mr. Maloney, the elderly dancer. (O'Neill, IFM, pg. 20). The alternate title "Bung Your Eye" comes from Aird's Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs (1782), but the earliest appearance of the tune appears to be as the air to the song "There cam' a young man to my Daddie's door" published by Herd in 1769. Source for notated version: County Mayo piper Jimmy O'Brien (c. 1870's) [O'Neill]. O'Neill (1915 ed.), 1987; No. 161, pg. 90. O'Neill (1850), 1903/1979; No. 895, pg. 166. O'Neill (1001 Gems), 1907/1986; No. 142, pg. 38.
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L:1/8
M:6/8
S:O'Neill - 1001 Gems (142)
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LAN(N)IGAN'S BALL (Feis-Rince Ui Lannagain). AKA and see "At the Side of the Road," "Flannigan" (Pa.), "When I Was a Young Man." Irish (originally), American; Double Jig. USA; New England, Maine, southwestern Pa. E Minor/Dorian (most versions): D Minor (Welling). Standard. AABB. The title comes from the comic song by one George or D.K. Gavan set to music by John Candy, according to a note in J. Diprose's songster of 1865 (Cazden, et al, 1982). The song appears in several publication of the 1860's and later decades and appears to be the most wide-spread of this tune genre. Bayard (1981) gives extensive notes on this tune, which he asserts is part of "a British traditional tune-family of widely varying developments and of probable considerable antiquity." He likens this tune family to a family of languages and their cross-currents of relationships of elements, forms, and structures. This family may or may not have developed from a single air. He divides many of the variant airs in this family into groups of related versions, of which the "Lannigan's Ball" tunes resemble all the others in one or more ways. The tune groups are 1) "Lannigan's Ball" (including "Dribbles of Brandy," "Young Francis Mooney," and two untitled jigs in Joyce's 1909 collection {Nos. 824 & 837}). 2) "Lumps of Pudding," which dates from the 17th century (including "Contentment is Wealth," "I'm Content With My Lot" {Ta Me Sasta lem' Staid}, and "The Day After the Fair"). 3) "Bung Your Eye" (including "Off to the Hunt," "The Antrim Lasses," "Tatter Jack," "The Boys of Carrigallen," "Mount Your Baggage," and "Bonnie Strathmore"). 4) "Kitty Alone". 5) "O As I Was Kist Yestreen" (including "House o' Duncan," "My Love is Lost to Me"). 6) Muirland Willie (including "The Northern Lass," "The Auld Maid of Fife," "The Shepherd's Wife," "My Boy Tammy" and "Forty Miles" {In Bayard's 1944 collection he thought "Forty Miles" was similar to "Lannigan's Ball," but in his 1981 collection he reconsidered it as a version of "Muirland Willie"}). The title appears in a list of Maine fiddler Mellie Dunham. The elderly Dunham was Henry Ford's champion fiddler in the mid-1920's. "At the Side of the Road" is given as an alternate title in O'Neill's 1001 Gems, while a set dance, "Hurry the Jug," appears to be an earlier form. Mulvihill (1986) gives the tune as an alternate for the dance The Bridge of Athlone. There was a céilí dance called Lannigan's Ball which was once quite popular. Sources for notated versions: Eben Patterson (elderly fiddler from Allegheny County, Pa., 1930's); Walter Neal (Armstrong County, Pa., 1952); Fred Miller & Glenn Gelnette (Jefferson County, Pa., 1949); Hoge MS (Pa., 1944) [Bayard]; Winston Fitzgerald (1914-1987, Cape Breton) [Cranford]. Bayard (Dance to the Fiddle), 1981; No. 541A-D, pgs. 481-484. Cole (1001 Fiddle Tunes), 1940; pg. 68. Cranford (Winston Fitzgerald), 1997; No. 194, pg. 76. Jarman (Old Time Fiddlin' Tunes); No. or pg. 17. Kennedy (Fiddlers Tune Book), Vol. 2, 1954; pg. 43. Kerr (Merry Melodies), Vol. 1; No. 9, pg. 36. Mallinson (Essential), 1995; No. 88, pg. 38. Miller & Perron (New England Fiddler's Repertoire), 1983; No. 45. Mulvihill (1st Collection), 1986; No. 20, pg. 123. O'Lochlainn, 1939; No. 52. O'Neill (Krassen), 1976; pg. 34. O'Neill (1850), 1979; No. 858, pg. 159. O'Neill (1001 Gems), 1986; No. 118, pg. 35. Raven (English Country Dance Tunes), 1984; pg. 104. Roche Collection, 1983, Vol. 1; No. 105, pg. 45. Ryan's Mammoth Collection. Spaeth (Weep Some More, My Lady), 1927; pg. 222. Tubridy (Irish Traditional Music, Book Two), 1999; pg. 29. Welling (Welling's Hartford Tunebook), 1976; pg. 22. White's Excesior Collection, 1907; pg. 10. White's Unique Collection, 1896; No. 16. Folkways 8826, Per's Four--"Jigs and Reels." Victor 20537 (78 RPM), Mellie Dunham (appears as one of tunes in "Medley of Reels"), 1926.
T:Lanigan's Ball
L:1/8
M:6/8
K:E Minor
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MOUNT YOUR BAGGAGE [1]. English, Jig. England, Northumberland. A Minor. Standard. AABB. Like "Tatter Jack," "Bonnie Strathmore," "Off to the Hunt," "The Antrim Lasses," and "The Boys of Carrigallen," it is a variant of the tune "Bung Your Eye." Cole (1001 Fiddle Tunes), 1940; pg. 65. Mooney (Choicest Tunes/Bagpipe), 1982, Vol. 1; pg. 22.

O AS I WAS KISS'D YESTREEN. AKA and see "The Hare in the Corn(er)," "The House in the Corner," "The Little House around the Corner," "The Royal Irish Jig," "The Absent-minded Man," "Fhiach an Mhada Rua." Scottish, Medley (Jig). A Minor. Standard. AABB. Bayard (1981) identifies this as the signature melody of a group of tunes that belongs to a very large extended family of tunes, which he likens to a language and its dialects. Other signature tunes in this family are "Lan(n)igan's Ball," "Muirland Willie," "Bung Your Eye," "Kitty Alone," and "Lumps of Pudding." "O As I Was Kiss'd Yestreen" variants are close to the "Bung Your Eye" group and include "Sae Braley As I Was," "House o' Duncan," "My Love is Lost to Me," and others. See also the Irish family of tunes of the "Old Man Dillon" family. John Glen (1891) finds the earliest appearance of the tune in print in Robert Bremner's 1757 collection (pg. 75). Aird's (Selection...), 1778, Vol. 1, No. 200. Carlin (The Gow Collection), 1986; No. 476. Gow (Complete Repository), Part 2, 1802; pg. 22. Johnson (Scots Musical Museum, 1787-1803, Vol. 4, No. 319). Kerr (Merry Melodies), Vol. 1; pg. 31). Oswald's Caledonian Pocket Companion (1780?, Vol. 1, pg. 137). Scottish Country Dance Book (1930-57, Book 13, No. 6 {pt. 2 of 1st air}).
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L:1/8
M:6/8
S:Gow - 2nd Repository
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PRINCESS ROYAL, THE [1] ("Bean-Priunsa Riogda" or "Beanphrionsa Rioghamhuil"). AKA and see "The Arethusa," "Brian the Brave," "The Gaelic League March," "Miss MacDermott" (Inion Nic Diarmada), "Port Shean tSeain," "Rodney's Glory." Irish, Air or Planxty (2/4 time, "lively"); English, Morris Dance Tune (4/4 time). England; Northumberland, Cotswolds. A Minor (Carlin): A Dorian (Mulvihill, Sullivan): B Minor (Ó Canainn): G Minor (Gow, McGlashan, O'Neill): D Minor (Bacon, Raven): E Minor (Mallinson): F Minor (Complete Collection). Standard. One part (Ó Canainn): AB (Complete Collection, O'Neill): AABB (Carlin, Gow, Mulvihill, Raven, Sullivan): ABB, x4 (Mallinson). One of the most celebrated compositions attributed to the blind Irish harper Turlough O'Carolan (1670-1738). The air under the title "Princess Royal" or "Miss MacDermott" is attributed to O'Carolan by Bunting (1840), Donal O'Sullivan (1983), Flood (1906) and other sources, although apparently earliest by O'Farrell (c. 1810) in his work Pocket Companion, book IV, and by Bunting in his MS collection of c. 1800, which O'Sullivan notes "has the tradition of the harpers behind it." Flood says the tune was composed by the harper in 1725, and published in 1727, 1730 (in Walsh's Complete Dancing Master where it appears as "The Princess Royal, the new way") and 1731 (by Daniel Wright), and republished several times between 1735 and 1745, though no words have survived.
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The English writer Frank Kidson disagrees with the attribution to O'Carolan and Irish provenance. He says that the air was commonly known in the early part of the 18th century as an English country dance tune named "The Princess Royal, the new way," and that about 1730-35 it appeared in several London publications (presumably the Walsh and Wright publications cited by Flood). It appears in Wright's Compleat Collection of Celebrated Country Dances, vol. I, c. 1730-35 as "New Princess Royal."
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No matter what its origins, it was admired by William Shield (who arranged the song with words set by Prince Hoare) who retitled it "The Arethusa," and published it in his 1796 small opera or musical entertainment "Lock and Key" (Arethusa was name of an Engish ship which fought an engagement with a French frigate La Belle Poule in the English Channel in June, 1778). Shield never claimed composition of the melody, only maintaining he had added the bass, but it became tremendously popular. Through publication and subsequent republication, maintain Irish advocates, it became popularly but erroneously considered an English air. Editor Gordon Ashman states the tune later became one of Hamilton Harty's sea song settings, called "On Board the Arethusa," which is often heard at the Last Night of the Proms.
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The 'princess royal' of the title, states Flood, was an honor for Mary MacDermot, daughter of the Princess of Coolavin and Princess Royal of the MacDermot Family, or, as Bunting says, "daughter of MacDermott Roe, the representative of the old princes of Coolavin (County Sligo)." O'Sullivan, however, notes there were two branches of the County Roscommon family; the MacDermotts of Alderford, usually known by the title MacDermott Roe, and the MacDermotts of Coolavin. The head of the latter branch was known in O'Carolan's time as the Prince of Coolavin, and O'Sullivan believes it probable that the Princess Royal was his eldest daughter and not of the MacDermott Roes. O'Carolan may also composed another song for her called "Maire an Cuilfhin" (Fair-Haired Mary), according to Flood. Princess Royal also is the title reserved for the eldest daughter of the British royal family, if the sovereign sees fit to award it. Kidson (Groves) maintains the princes royal referred to is Anne, daughter of George II, who married William, Prince of Orange, in 1734.
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Bayard (1981) begs comparison of the tune with James Oswald's "My Love is Lost to Me" and questions whether Oswald's composition was derivative from "The Princess Royal" (it could not be ancestral to, as he also speculates for O'Carolan's composition preceded his, published c. 1780, by some sixty years). Further, he wonders if O'Carolan based his tune on "some form" of the widely known tunes "Bung Your Eye" and "O As I Was Kist Yestreen." The Mallinson/Raven/Bacon morris dance version of the tune is from the village of Adderbury, Oxfordshire, in England's Cotwolds (Carlin's similar version is listed as "Scottish" in origin). In Cape Breton a twelve-step solo dance (also called Princess Royal) was performed to the tune, handed down from Donald 'The Tailor' Beaton, an itinerant tailor from South West Margaree. As a vehicle for folk songs the tune has proved popular and can be heard as "Lord Nelson" and "Raggle Taggle Gypsy O," among others. A Cape Breton hornpipe derivative goes by the title "Jenny's Dream." Another Turlough O'Carolan composition titled "Mrs. MacDermott Roe" has some melodic similarities. Sources for notated versions: the Irish collector Edward Bunting noted the melody from harper Arthur O'Neill in 1800; from the Bridge Céilí Band [Mulvihill]. Bacon (The Morris Ring), 1974; pg. 15. Carlin (Master Collection), 1984; No. 185, pg. 107. Complete Collection of Carolan's Irish Tunes, 1984; No. 87, pg. 70. Gow (Complete Repository), Book 2, 1802; pg. 7. Mallinson (Mally's Cotswold Morris Book), 1988, Vol. 1; No. 32, pg. 22. McGlashan (Collection of Scots Measures), 17__; pg. 13. Mulvihill (1st Collection), 1986; No. 1, pg. 118. Ó Canainn (Traditional Slow Airs of Ireland), 1995; No. 33, pg. 33. O'Neill (Krassen), 1976; pg. 231. O'Neill (1850), 1979; No. 641, pg. 115. Raven (English Country Dance Tunes), 1984; pg. 79. Sullivan (Session Tunes), Vol. 3; No. 28, pg. 11. Carthage CGLP 4406, Hutchings et al - "Morris On" (1983/1972). Flying Fish FF70572, Frank Ferrel - "Yankee Dreams: Wicked Good Fiddling from New England" (1991). Island ILPS9432, The Chieftains - "Bonaparte's Retreat" (1976).
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T:Miss MacDermott or The Princess Royal
C:Turlough Carolan
B:Carolan, by Donal O'Sullivan
N:transposed from Fm
M:2/4
L:1/16
Q:110
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B:McGlashan - Collection of Scots Measures
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TATTER JACK. The tune is a member of the "Bung Your Eye" group of airs, which include "Off to the Hunt," "Mount Your Baggage," "The Antrim Lasses," "Bonnie Strathmore," and "The Boys of Carrigallen," among others. American Veteran Fifer, 1927; No. 28.

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