Key signature: Gmajor
Submitted on November 1st 2002 by slainte.
This tune has been added to 112 tunebooks.
Also known as Green Pease Straw, James Byrnes, The Milkmaid.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Tommy Peoples'
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Gmaj
|:G2BG cGBG|ADDE FGAF|G2BG cGBG|1 Addc BGGF:|2 Addc BGGf||
|:g2dg egde|g2bg fgaf|g2dg egdB|1 cAdc BGGf:|2 cAdc BGGF||
Tommy Peoples' Reel
This is, I think, one of the most popular and important session tunes in Ireland.
It comes from the repertoir of Tommy Peoples', but not his composition.
To be honest, I don't have enough ability to learn the whole tune by ear yet, so I made up this version referring to several versions available online and some actual recordings.
I've recently learned the tune and been playing for around a couple of weeks, but never been sick of it. What a simple and pleasant tune! It is very nice to start a set with this tune, as many do.
There're several tunes known as Tommy Peoples', but this is the one which appears on "Ceol Aduaidh" (Mairead Ni Mhaonaigh and Frankie Kennedy), "In Good Company" (Kevin Crawford), "Frost is All Over" (Paul McGrattan), and "Three Shouts from a Hill" (Cian), as far as I know. Probably many more.
# Posted on November 1st 2002 by slainte
Tommy Peoples Reel
I found this tune as "The Roving Bachelor" in one of the "Kerr's" Collections of tunes a few years ago, quite by chance.
It's generally been known as "Tommy Peoples' Reel" since Frankie and Mairead recorded it.
# Posted on November 1st 2002 by Kenny
The Roving Bachelor
I've just found "The Roving Bachelor" is the second tune on the first track of "Ceol Aduaidh" by Frankie and Mairead. This "Tommy Peoples'" is the very first tune of the recording and played by Tommy Peoples himself in his "Waiting for a Call."
# Posted on February 25th 2003 by slainte
my mistake
My apologies, slainte - you're quite correct. The second tune of the set is the one I found in Kerr's, called "The Roving Bachelor" . I will post it soon , as you request.
# Posted on April 21st 2003 by Kenny
Don't worry, Kenny. Your mistake is much better than mine, like posting the tunes which were already on this site or misattributing the tunes to someone else.
Altough this is a truly nameless tune, but I think there is no problem if we play it as "Tommy Peoples'," simply because so many musicians including Tommy Peoples himself called that way.
# Posted on April 21st 2003 by slainte
Liam O'flynn
this great reel is the third of the humours of carigaholt set in liam o'flynn's pipers call album. he plays it on a flat set of pipes in b and its just very nice. in the sleeve notes he states he has never seen a name associated to this tune.
# Posted on November 12th 2003 by timo
Tommy Peoples' (Gmaj)
Another interpretation of the tune:
K: Gmaj
~G3B cABG|ADDE FGAF|~G3B cABG|1 Addc BGGF:|2 Addc BGGf||
g2dg egde|g2dg eaaf|g2dg egdB|1 cBAc BGGf:|2 cBAc BGGF||
The first part comes from the version recorded by the band Cian: it works well as a variation. The second part is mostly based on Tommy Peoples' playing but with a different ending, which is actually more common than that of the version I've already submitted.
# Posted on April 3rd 2005 by slainte
The ancestor of this tune is thought to have been a Scottish reel called Clean Pease Strae http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/6930.
# Posted on March 12th 2007 by Dow