Key signature: Adorian
Submitted on August 11th 2006 by 52Paddy.
This tune has been added to 24 tunebooks.
Also known as Boil Your Breakfast Early, Kitty Clover, Peggy On The Seattle.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Peggy On The Settle
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Ador
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Peggy on the Settle
I got this tune at the end of May this year from a banjo workshop at the Fleadh Nua. It sounds to me like a version of the reel "In and Out the Harbour" though the second part is considerably different.
I've also seen the tune in a book of tunes by Leo Rowesome (I think) so it's probably an old tune. I could be very wrong on that, depending on when that book was published.
When I got the tune, the banjo teacher spelt it "Peggy on the Seattle". I don't really know what that is but I stuck it in as an alternative title. What's a settle anyway?
# Posted on August 11th 2006 by 52Paddy
Nice tune
Nice tune, I like it a lot. I think a settle is some type of furniture, maybe like a footrest? Dunno. Good tune though, we play it capo 5 up in D, just because.
# Posted on August 11th 2006 by basilbowman
A piece of furniture
in Belfast a settee is a common word for a sofa,so i would interpret this as a suggestive title!
# Posted on August 11th 2006 by cos
Yes, they're called settee down here in Dublin though more commonly as couches. I'm presuming it's some furniture too and probably an old word for a very common type of seat or something.
# Posted on August 11th 2006 by 52Paddy
Pegg in the Settle
Learned this tune at the Phil Murphy Weekend in Carrick on Bannow, Co. Wexford, two weeks ago from the wellknown whistleplayer Séan Ryan. He played it in E Dorian and told us, this was the old version of Drowsy Maggie.
A settle is an old fashioned chair with a long wooden seat and a high back and arms, often with a box for storing things under the seat.
Nice tune, but can't see any similarity with Drowsy Maggie, so far.
# Posted on August 11th 2006 by craics90
Reminds me of "Merry Sisters of Fate." A bit different though.
# Posted on August 11th 2006 by slainte
Old English 'setl' = a seat. Can also mean a Bench.
Maybe Peggy was dancing on top of the bench.
Fiddlers' Companion has the alternate title (As Gaeilge):
'Mairgreadin Air An Suideacan'
# Posted on August 14th 2006 by Donough
Settle down
Many Irish cottages had a niche in the main room in front of the hearth which accomodated the settle(bed). This could be drawn out at night and was used by the parents who had the warmest and dryest spot in the house, The bedding was stowed away in it during the day. Interestingly, some of the settles didint have the extending bit so the people slept sitting up - which with TB on the rsampage may have been easier than lying down. If you're in the Castlebar area do visit The Museum of Country Life, a fascinating place and all will be discribed
# Posted on August 14th 2006 by Alancorsini
A *Welsh settle* is a high-backed wooden bench, with storage cupboards built in under the seat. I don't know whether such things were once commonplace elsewhere in the British Isles.
# Posted on December 22nd 2009 by CreadurMawnOrganig