The Pullet

reel

Key signature: Bminor

Submitted on November 26th 2007 by D.J.F..

This tune has been added to 22 tunebooks.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

• Are You The Concertina Player? by Kate McNamara
• Baker's Well by Baker's Well
• Bakerswell by Bakerswell
• Cliabhán An Dúchais by Brid O'Donohue
• Down From Bell Harbour by Chris Droney
• For Love And Laughter by Solas
• Happy To Meet by P.J. Crotty, Carol Cullinan, James Cullinan
• In The Footsteps Of Coleman by Various Artists
• Music For The Sets - Volume 6: Face The Hob by Various Artists
• New Day Dawning by Cherish The Ladies
• Pleasures Of Home by Winifred Horan
• Reelin'in Tradition by The Mulcahy Family
• Roguery Road by Jason O'Rouke And Ruadhrai O'Kane
• The Branch Line by Jack And Charlie Coen
• The Celtic Album by Boston Pops
• The Family Album by The McCarthys
• The Kinnitty Sessions by Lunasa
• The Music Of Kevin Keegan by Kevin Keegan
• The New Strung Harp by Maire Ni Chathasaigh
• The Tap Room Trio by Tap Room Trio
• The Woman I Loved So Well by Planxty
• Toss The Fiddles by Various Artists
• Vibrations by Dominig Bouchaud

X: 1
T: Pullet, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Bmin
fe|: d2B2 B2dB | AFAB ABde | f2B2 B2dB | ABde fefa |
b2B2 B2dB | A2AB ABde | f2B2 B2dB | ABde f2fe :|
|:defg abaf | defg a2af | defg abaf | edef g2fe |
defg abaf | defg a2gf | gfga bagf | edef g2fe :|

The Pullet

Found this tune in a book named "An Irish Tunebook" so no fear of being told off there.

I have played this tune both as a reel and as a hornpipe...works well for both rhythms!

I hope the ABC is right

# Posted on November 26th 2007 by D.J.F.

Drag Her Round the Road (the Pullet)

Almost the same but not quite and in Eminor
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/1148
submitted November 19th 2002 by Shanaway.

I haven't heard this version in decades and have never played it but it has remained in memory all that time.

# Posted on November 27th 2007 by hetty

16 bars

Instinct tells me to play this without the repeats. It's one of those tunes that goes on ad infinitum as the 'B' music leads itself straight back into the 'A' again and-so-on.

# Posted on November 27th 2007 by hetty

I second the motion...

# Posted on November 27th 2007 by ceolachan

Scottish!

Having just conversed with my trusty scottish band colleague we conclude this to be Scottish in character/feel but "D H R the D" is definitely Irish in character.

# Posted on November 27th 2007 by hetty

I didnt know this...

From wikipedia---

A pullet is a young chicken, more specifically a hen (female) at least 20-weeks-old which has begun to lay eggs but has not yet moulted. Pullets are more productive than the older laying hens; they often produce eggs for an entire year, while hens will lay for six-to-seven months.

# Posted on November 27th 2007 by The Merry Highlander

English

[Middle English pulet, from Old French polet, diminutive of poul, cock, and poule, hen, both from Latin pullus, young fowl, young animal, chicken; see pau-1 in Indo-European roots.]

# Posted on November 27th 2007 by The Merry Highlander

I love the linguistic derivatives of such words. This is a sweet tune indeed.

# Posted on November 29th 2007 by Jeffery

Dang English...

Dang English names for all these pure Irish tunes...

# Posted on November 30th 2007 by The Merry Highlander

Yes MH, and then they're killed and sold off as cheap meat and the next batch of pullets begin...because "pullets are more productive than the older laying hens"...

# Posted on November 30th 2007 by ceolachan

Another source

This tune also appears (as a hornpipe) in Levey's second collection of The Dance Music of Ireland (1873).

# Posted on January 22nd 2010 by rwwt