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Skin The Peelers

slip jig

Key signature: Cmajor

Submitted on February 7th 2004 by fiel.

This tune has been added to 13 tunebooks.

Also known as Óró, A Thaidhg, A Ghrá, Barney's Goat, Beimíd Ag Ól, Beimid Ag Ol, Late Home At Night, Oro, A Thaidhg, A Ghra, The Peeler Jig, Peeler's, The Peeler's Jig, The Peeler's, The Peeler, The Peelers' Jig, The Peelers', Skin The Peeler.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

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X: 1
T: Skin The Peelers
M: 9/8
L: 1/8
R: slip jig
K: Cmaj
|:"C"E2E EDE C2D|"^am"E2E EDE GED|"C"E2E EDE C2D|"^am"E2A A2E cBA:|
|:"^am"E2A, A,2B, C2D|E2A A2E GED|EGA A2B c2d|e2d cBA cBA:|

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Skin The Peelers sheetmusic
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From "Roche Collection of Traditional Irish Music"

# Posted on February 7th 2004 by fiel

New glasses for me?

I think it is difficult to see on the gif, but the 2. and 3. note in the first bar of the second part IS A

# Posted on February 8th 2004 by fiel

Any notes available about the age of this tune/how far back it is known to date?

# Posted on February 9th 2004 by Dwatted Wabbit

Sounds like an upside down version of Boys of Ballisadare...

# Posted on February 10th 2004 by Zina Lee

Sounds like a muddled version of The Butterfly.
http://thesession.org/tunes/display.php/10

# Posted on February 12th 2004 by Aiki

Roche II, page 24, tune #255 "Skin the Peelers" ~ & predating "The Butterfly"

"The Roche Collection of Traditional Irish Music, Volume II", 1912

"Hop Jigs" ~ pages 24 - 28

X: 2
T: Skin the Peelers
M: 9/8
L: 1/8
R: slip jig
K: Gmaj
|: B2 B BAB G2 A | B2 B BAB dBA | B2 B BAB G2 A | B2 e e2 B dBA :|
|: B2 e e2 f g2 A | B2 e e2 B dBA | B2 e e2 f g2 a | b2 a g2 e dBA :|

"The Butterfly" is a muddled version of this, muddled, by all accounts, by Tommy Peoples mixing up two slip jigs... Because one is the better known, as is often the case, does not mean it is the ancestor. This one predates "The Butterfly"....

# Posted on July 17th 2008 by ceolachan

Tommy Potts, not Tommy Peoples :-/

The Butterfly slip jig played by Tommy Potts
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxKaKip3TqM

# Posted on July 31st 2008 by ceolachan

K: e minor ~ not ~ K: G Major

Correction to the above given transcription from Roche... Too many unkind distractions does not make a ^c... :-/

K: Emin

# Posted on August 7th 2008 by ceolachan

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