Come down the stairs, Peggy my Dear?

Subject: Come down the stairs, Peggy my Dear?
From: GUEST,Lucy
Date: 05 Apr 01 - 02:20 PM

I have this tune running through my head that I heard in a bar on St. Pat's night. Sorry, I don't know what it is called and maybe someone here can help. Some words.....

"There once was a troop of Irish Dragoons.....Fifeio... Come down the stairs pretty Peggy my dear..." Thanks if anyone knows...

Subject: RE: Come down the stairs, Peggy my Dear?
From: Bert
Date: 05 Apr 01 - 02:22 PM

Bonnie Lass of Fyvie Oh!

Subject: RE: Come down the stairs, Peggy my Dear?
From: GUEST,Lucy
Date: 05 Apr 01 - 02:25 PM

Thanks Bert, You are a gentleman !

Subject: RE: Come down the stairs, Peggy my Dear?
From: GUEST,Bruce O.
Date: 05 Apr 01 - 02:43 PM

I left the Scots versions and it's history there to Emily Lyle in 'The Greig-Ducan Folk Songs Collection'. The original Irish and the American versions, and the history of it's tune, 1784 to as late as the Civil War in the USA, is in the Scarce Songs 1 file on my website). Look for "Pretty Peggy" in the index and click on it. Click

Subject: RE: Come down the stairs, Peggy my Dear?
From: GUEST,Lucy
Date: 05 Apr 01 - 03:15 PM

Good Lord Bruce ! I had no idea there was so much history behind that song. What a great site too. Cheers.

Subject: RE: Come down the stairs, Peggy my Dear?
From: GUEST,Bruce O.
Date: 05 Apr 01 - 03:26 PM

There are nearly 2 dozen versions of "The Bonnie Lass o' Fyvie, O" in Vol. 1 (#84), 1981 (see Mercat Press) of the Greig-Duncan collection. They missed an Irish version in Peter Buchan's (Scots) MSS in BL. (Finding anything that Emily Lyle missed is a great rarity. There's never been a better annotator of a Scots folk song collection.)

Subject: RE: Come down the stairs, Peggy my Dear?
From: nutty
Date: 05 Apr 01 - 03:41 PM

Hey Bert , That was a 2 minute response - Do you take the record??

Subject: RE: Come down the stairs, Peggy my Dear?
From: Noreen
Date: 05 Apr 01 - 11:40 PM

Hats off to bert!!

Subject: Response Record?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 06 Apr 01 - 04:54 AM

I think Sorcha, Pene Azul, and Jeri all hit the two-minute mark for a response with a clickable link. I think one of those made it in one minute, but can't recall which one.
Congratulations, Bert. You have joined an elite group.
-Joe Offer, who did it in three minutes one time-

Subject: RE: Come down the stairs, Peggy my Dear?
From: GUEST,Bruce O.
Date: 06 Apr 01 - 10:44 AM

Much faster than me. It took me 25 years to dig out the history of song and tune. Now it can all be done by button clicks.

Subject: RE: Come down the stairs, Peggy my Dear?
From: Jeri
Date: 06 Apr 01 - 11:06 AM

Joe, I don't really remember. I think I might have done it once, but it wasn't the right song or something. It could just as likely have been someone else.

Bruce, we can access by button click only because someone such as yourself has done all the hard work, and made the results available.

Subject: RE: Come down the stairs, Peggy my Dear?
From: GUEST,Bruce O.
Date: 06 Apr 01 - 12:52 PM

Yes, but the button clickers get the credit.

Subject: RE: Come down the stairs, Peggy my Dear?
From: The Walrus at work
Date: 06 Apr 01 - 01:11 PM

Bruce,

Thus it ever was.

Walrus

Subject: RE: Come down the stairs, Peggy my Dear?
From: MMario
Date: 06 Apr 01 - 01:17 PM

Bruce - if it weren't for you and people like you there would be nothing for button clickers like me to find. Believe me, it is greatly appreciated!

Subject: RE: Come down the stairs, Peggy my Dear?
From: Jeri
Date: 06 Apr 01 - 01:53 PM

Bruce, I don't think anyone's taking that "beat the clock" stuff seriously. It's just a silly, simple game we play. (Personally, I just like to annoy Joe.)

As far as finding information, it's like a librarian finding a book for someone. The librarian gets thanked, and the guy who wrote the book is taken for granted, mainly because he's not there at the moment. You are here, and I don't think there's one of us who doesn't damn well know who did the work. Believe me, I appreciate it, and thank you.

Subject: RE: Come down the stairs, Peggy my Dear?
From: GUEST,Bruce O.
Date: 06 Apr 01 - 02:40 PM

Walrus, I've long known that, which doesn't mean I have to like it. I've also long known that sometimes two people are working on the same thing at the same time. In molecular spectroscopy where I worked results from Western researchers keep getting turned up as publishe about the dame time in Russian Journals, which nobody in the West ever read. The reason is that there was all sorts of crap about how so and so's theory fit well with 'dialectical materialism' and other such nonsence. Russians got thrown back by 25 years in genetics (crop reaearch on hybrid varieties) when Lysekno got Stalin's ear, and everyone had to intepret their work as fitting Lysenko's nonsense theories, or their work wasn't publishable.

Jeri, I know, I've played it, too. And sometimes my too slow typing (especially when I had a detailed answer that required some looking up) resulted in someone else beating me to it. But now I've gotten a paying job and soon won't be able to get here as often.