Key signature: Dmajor
Submitted on April 4th 2003 by Dow.
This tune has been added to 41 tunebooks.
Also known as Mother's Pet, Peata Beag, Peata Beag Do Mathar, Peata Beag Do Máthar, Peata Beag Do Mhathair, Peata Beag Do Mháthair, Peata Beag Mo Mathar, Peata Beag Mo Mhathair, Peata Beag Mo Mháthair, Peata Beag Mo Mháthar, Peata Geal Do Mhathair, Your Mother's Fair Pet.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Your Mother's Little Pet
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Dmaj
d2cA BG~G2|ABcA dfaf|d2cA BGGB|ABcA d2de:|
|:fdde fga2|bgaf gbag|fdde fga2|1 bgaf g2ag:|2 bgaf g2af||
This is the sister reel of "The Yellow Cow" posted at http://thesession.org/tunes/display.php/1565 which was originally a song. You can find a recording and details including lyrics of the song on Dervish's "At The End Of The Day".
# Posted on April 4th 2003 by Dow
I know this one as *My* Mother's Little Pet or Peata Beag *Mo* Mháithair.
It is also played as a polka.
# Posted on April 9th 2003 by ragaman
Jig intro for Peata Beag
Does anyone know the name of the jig Dervish plays before and after Peata Beag?
# Posted on October 13th 2003 by ketida
Ketida, on the only Dervish recording I have, they do Coppers and Brass with Peata Beag (http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/228), but down a string in C.
# Posted on October 13th 2003 by Will CPT
If you mean the Live in Palma album, I know the jig they play before and after Peata Beag as Hartigan's Fancy and play it in G.
# Posted on March 2nd 2004 by jeffreyeli
Polka version
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/5185
# Posted on November 13th 2005 by Dow
The Temple House Ceili Band had a slightly different take on the 2nd part of this Polka, which you may, or may not like?:
X: 1
T: Peata Geal Mo Mhathair
M: 2/4
L: 1/8
R: polka
K: Dmaj
d e/d/ cA|BG GB|AB c/B/A|df af|
d e/d/ cA|BG GB|AB c/B/A|1 df da:|2 d2 de||
fd d>e|fg af|ge e>f|gb ag|
fd d>e|fg af|gb af|1 dA de:|2 d2 d2||
# Posted on November 13th 2005 by Ptarmigan
Is this an ancestor of Mary McMahon? http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/1934
# Posted on December 30th 2005 by slainte
Grada
This tune is also contained in the set Anton's Gambit by Grada (second in the set).
# Posted on July 21st 2006 by fltress
Dervish & Peata Beag
I am pretty sure that the jig that Dervish uses to bookend this song on Live In Palma is the Humours of Ennystymon...if its not that tune, then they are so close that they could be the same tune.
# Posted on January 30th 2007 by CelticHeartbeat