BONNIE LASS O' FYVIE, THE. AKA and see "Eveleen's Bower," "Peggy Darby." Scottish, Air (4/4 time). D Major. Standard. AA. A 'bothy' ballad, bothy being the name of the hut where itinerent workers lived on a farm in the 19th century. Hunter (The Fiddle Music of Scotland), 1988; No. 359. Neil (The Scots Fiddle), 1991; No. 71, pg. 95.
EVELEEN'S BOWER (Teimeal Eiblin). AKA and see "The Bonnie Lass of Fyvie, O," "Oh! Weep For the Hour". Irish, Air (4/4 time). A Major. Standard. AB. The tune was credited to the blind Irish harper Turlough O'Carolan by Francis O'Neill, though by what authority is not known. Bruce Olson finds the tune originally attached to an Irish ballad of about 1780 called "Pretty Peggy of Derby, O," reprinted numerous times between 1784 and 1815 (including one by Moore, 1807-1808). It is sometimes also erroneously attributed to Michael Kelly. O'Neill (1850), 1903/1979; No. 642, pg. 115.
PEGGY DARBY. The tune appears as "Peggy Darby, or The Dandies Irish" in vol. 3 of Aird's Airs (the tune is better known as "Bonnie Lass of Fyvie, O").