The Blue-eyed Lassie

reel

Key signature: Dmajor

Submitted on March 27th 2004 by Dr. Dow.

This tune has been added to 35 tunebooks.

Also known as Benny McCarthy's, Tommy Peoples'.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

• 20th Feakle Festival: Reeling Through The Years by Various Artists
• 40th Anniversary Album by Armagh Pipers Club
• A Cheap Present by Birkin Tree
• Across The Waters - Irish Traditional Music From England by Various Artists
• Altan by Altan
• Altan's Finest by Altan
• Between The Sets by Barefield Ceili Band
• Brian Kelly by Brian Kelly
• Broken Hearted I'll Wander by Dolores Keane, John Faulkner And Eamonn Curran
• Ceol Aduaidh by Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh And Frankie Kennedy
• Claddagh's Choice: An Anthology Of Irish Traditional Music by Various Artists
• Dance Music Of Ireland: Volume 11 by Matt Cunningham
• Donal Lunny by Donal Lunny
• Drivin' Leitrim Timber by Dave Sheridan
• Familiar Footsteps by Dezi Donnelly
• Foinn Seisiun 2 by Ceoltóirí Cultúrlainne
• From West To East - Live Sessions by Various Artists
• Gusty's Frolicks by Sean Keane
• In Full Flight by Gavin Whelan
• In Good Company by Kevin Crawford
• In The Tradition by Boys Of The Lough
• Inspiration by Oige
• Island Angel by Altan
• John McCusker by John McCusker
• Macalla Na HÓige by Hugh Healy And Colm Healy
• Morga by Morga
• Music For The Sets - Volume 6: Face The Hob by Various Artists
• Ocean View by Shanachie
• On Oiche Go Maidin by O'aces
• Once Again (1987-1993) by Altan
• Osna by Osna
• Seven Evenings, Seven Mornings by Shantalla
• Standing Room Only by Eliot Grasso
• Take The Bull By The Horns by Tom Doherty
• The Beauties Of Autumn by The Longridge Ceili Band
• The Best Of Altan by Altan
• The First Ten Years: 1986 - 1995 by Altan
• The Frost Is All Over by Paul McGrattan
• The Initiation by Charlene Adzima
• The Irish Low Whistle by Joe McKenna
• The Music Makers: Celebrating 35 Years Of Comhaltas In Leeds by Leeds CCE
• The Open Road by Steph Geremia
• The Piper's Call by Liam O'Flynn
• The Piper's Rest by Jimmy Morrison
• The Plain Of Jars by Brian Kelly
• Think Before You Think by Danu
• Three Shouts From A Hill by Cian
• Traditional Irish Music From Doolin Co. Clare by Terry Bingham
• Traditional Music On Fiddle, Banjo, And Harp by Oisin MacDiarmada, Brian Fitzgerald, And Michael O Ruanaigh
• Tunes For Practice by Seamus Creagh
• Two For Two by Laurence Nugent
• Waiting For A Call by Tommy Peoples
• Wherever You Go by Wild Asparagus

X: 1
T: Blue-eyed Lassie, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Dmaj
DFAF BFAF|DFAF BE~E2|DFAF BFAe|faAc edd2:|
d2fd ceAc|d2AF GFEF|DA,~A,2 DFAd|fade feef|
~a3f gfef|edfd ed~d2|A2FA EADe|faAc edd2||

Tommy Peoples'

Off Frankie and Mairead's Ceol Aduaidh. This setting is based on a Sydney session recording. The tune rarely gets played, and when it does, people always start to play the much more common Doon Reel http://thesession.org/tunes/display.php/438 over the top of it before they realise it's a different tune.

# Posted on March 27th 2004 by Dr. Dow

Another setting is available here with a whole load of other donegal tunes:
http://misaok.hp.infoseek.co.jp/fmod/fmod2.html
This may be closer to what you can hear on the recording, but I wouldn't know as I haven't got that album myself - I only have their earlier recording from '93.

# Posted on March 27th 2004 by Dr. Dow

This is the second tune in the first set on Danu's "Up in the Air" Album. Benny McCarthy does it as thatis a solos album, he plays it after "The Moving Cloud" and he does it in Eb.

# Posted on January 11th 2006 by Why Bother?

An old tune recycled!

Hmm, this is unmistakably the same tune as ''The Blue-eyed Lassie' appearing in Ryan's Mammoth Collection from the mid-19th century. How did it get to be called Tommy Peoples'?

# Posted on October 17th 2010 by rwwt

Obvious....

As Dr. Dow writes above, Frankie and Mairead recorded it on their first LP, in 1983, I think. They learned the tune from Tommy Peoples, who presumably didn't have a name for it, so in keeping with the tradition, they named it after their source, ie Tommy Peoples.

# Posted on October 18th 2010 by Kenny

It is indeed the same tune. I'm changing the listed title to Blue-eyed Lassie and moving Tommy Peoples' to the alternative names.

X: 1
T: The Blue-eyed Lassie
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Dmaj
DFAF BFAd|DFFA BEEF|DFAF BFA2|faAc edd2:|
dffd ceec|(3Bcd AF GFED|A,DFA DFAd|fadf e2fg|
abaf gfed|edfd edBd|AdFd EdFd|faeg fdd2||

# Posted on October 19th 2010 by Dr. Dow

X: 1
T: The Blue-eyed Lassie
T: Tommy Peoples'
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
S: Frankie Kennedy & Mairead Ni Mhaonaigh - Ceol Aduaidh
K: Dmaj
DFAF BFAd|DFFA BE~E2|DFAF BFAd|faAc ed~d2:|
dffd ceAc|d2AF GFED|A,D (3DDD A,DFA|fade feef|
~a3f gfef|edfd edfd|ADFA EAFA|faAc ed~d2||

# Posted on October 30th 2010 by Dr. Dow

Sorry - typo

X: 1
T: The Blue-eyed Lassie
T: Tommy Peoples'
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
S: Frankie Kennedy & Mairead Ni Mhaonaigh - Ceol Aduaidh
K: Dmaj
DFAF BFAd|DFAF BE~E2|DFAF BFAd|faAc ed~d2:|
dffd ceAc|d2AF GFED|A,D (3DDD A,DFA|fade feef|
~a3f gfef|edfd edfd|ADFA EAFA|faAc ed~d2||

# Posted on October 30th 2010 by Dr. Dow