Irish Traditional Music Tune Index
Tune ID# 545 (Drowsy Maggie)

RhythmBars8-bar phrase structureMode
Reel16ABE Dorian
Transcription of first 2 bars of Drowsy Maggie
 about these two bars

These two bars are the start of my transcription of how this tune was played – the first time through – on the recording Ch 4 (details in the Discography below).

Where do you get the tune titles?
Titles given to this tune in the sources listed below (plus notes of mine about this tune):
Drowsy Maggie / Drowsie Maggie / Drowsey Maggie (including Donegal setting) (also in A, also with a 3rd part composed by Joe Cooley) (compare 2nd part with 2nd part of John-Joe Gannon's #4512)
What do the "track#tune" codes mean?

cd Discography

Here are all recordings of this tune considering only the indexed recordings. I have discovered by careful listening that these sources are in fact musically the same tune, regardless of the tune titles they use, key changes, retuning, etc. They are listed in order of when they were recorded.

Year
Recorded
Track
#Tune
[Album code] Artist. Title. Primary musicians (instruments). Album details
and contents
19191#1[PT] Patsy Touhey. The Piping of Patsy Touhey. Patsy Touhey (pipes).View album details
191914#1[WW 2] various. The Wheels of the World. Early Irish-American Music. Classic Recordings from the 1920s and 1930s. Vol. 2. View album details
~19496(2:04)#2[ICTM] various. Ireland. Irlande. View album details
~19731(0:02)#1[Ch 4] The Chieftains. 4. Michael Tubridy (flute, concertina, whistle), Seán Potts (whistle), Paddy Moloney (pipes, whistle), Martin Fay (fiddle), Seán Keane (fiddle), Peadar Mercier (bodhrán, bones).View album details
~197811#2[LC 1] Liz Carroll. A Friend Indeed. Liz Carroll (fiddle).View album details
~19815#1[MM 2] Matt Molloy. Heathery Breeze. Matt Molloy (flute).View album details
~19812.18#1[WFO 1] various. Wooden Flute Obsession. View album details
19917#1[A HS] Altan. Harvest Storm. Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh (fiddle, vocals), Frankie Kennedy (flute, whistle, vocals), Paul O'Shaughnessy (fiddle), Ciaran Tourish (fiddle, whistle, vocals), Mark Kelly (guitar, vocals), Ciaran Curran (bouzouki, bouzouki-guitar).View album details
19929#2[DOEI] various. Dear Old Erin's Isle. Irish Traditional Music from America. View album details
1994[2] various. Alan's other personal audiocassettes.
~199928#2[MtRd] various. The Mountain Road. A Compilation of Tunes Popular in South Sligo. View album details
200710#1[Aths 1] Áthas. Áthas. Heather Lewin-Tiarks (fiddle, viola, cello), Amy Richter (bodhrán, djembe, whistle), Jeff Ksiazek (guitar, whistle, flute).View album details

Bibliography

Here are all transcriptions of this tune under any title whatsoever – considering only the indexed books – listed in chronological order. I have discovered by careful comparison that these are very similar to this tune as played on the recordings listed above.

As tune #1425 in [1850] Francis O'Neill and James O'Neill. O'Neill's Music of Ireland. [available]
As tune #662 in [1001] Francis O'Neill and James O'Neill. The Dance Music of Ireland. 1001 Gems. [available]
On page 136 of [Krsn] Miles Krassen. O'Neill's Music of Ireland. New and Revised. [available]
On page 103 of [TOC] Tomás Ó Canainn. Traditional Music in Ireland. [available]
On page 91 of [FF] David Brody. The Fiddler's Fakebook. [available]
As reel #48 in [MM] Martin Mulvihill. First Collection of Traditional Irish Music.
On page 86 of [Cr] Matt Cranitch. The Irish Fiddle Book. [available]
On page 7 of [SK] Sean Keane. Fifty Fiddle Solos. [available]
As reel #7 in [Ng] Alan Ng. Alan Ng's Transcriptions. [available]
In [M] Phil Rubenzer. Midwestern Irish Session Tunes. 3rd Edition.
On page 26 of [M2] Phil Rubenzer. Midwestern Irish Session Tunes. Millennium Edition.
As reel #70 in [Cobb] Dan Cobb. Cobb's Music of Ireland. [available]
As tune #75 in [Raff] Lesl Harker. 300 Tunes from Mike Rafferty. [available]
As tune #3 in [DM 4] Dave Mallinson. 100 Vital Irish Session Tunes. [available]
In [LM] L[arry]. E. McCullough. ? [available]

If you are considering using the above transcriptions to help you learn this tune, I invite you to check these practical Tips for Learning Irish Traditional Music. See also: So why do you bother indexing books and abc?

Year of the oldest source for this tune, considering the recordings and transcriptions listed above (note that I concentrate on sources after 1900): 1903