The Blue-eyed Lassie reel

Off Frankie and Mairead’s Ceol Aduaidh. This setting is based on a Sydney session recording. The tune rarely gets played, and when it does, people always start to play the much more common Doon Reel https://thesession.org/tunes/438 over the top of it before they realise it’s a different tune.

Another setting is available here with a whole load of other donegal tunes:
http://misaok.hp.infoseek.co.jp/fmod/fmod2.html
This may be closer to what you can hear on the recording, but I wouldn’t know as I haven’t got that album myself - I only have their earlier recording from ’93.

This is the second tune in the first set on Danu’s “Up in the Air” Album. Benny McCarthy does it as thatis a solos album, he plays it after “The Moving Cloud” and he does it in Eb.

Hmm, this is unmistakably the same tune as ‘’The Blue-eyed Lassie‘ appearing in Ryan’s Mammoth Collection from the mid-19th century. How did it get to be called Tommy Peoples’?

As Dr. Dow writes above, Frankie and Mairead recorded it on their first LP, in 1983, I think. They learned the tune from Tommy Peoples, who presumably didn’t have a name for it, so in keeping with the tradition, they named it after their source, ie Tommy Peoples.

It is indeed the same tune. I’m changing the listed title to Blue-eyed Lassie and moving Tommy Peoples’ to the alternative names.

X: 1
T: The Blue-eyed Lassie
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Dmaj
DFAF BFAd|DFFA BEEF|DFAF BFA2|faAc edd2:|
dffd ceec|(3Bcd AF GFED|A,DFA DFAd|fadf e2fg|
abaf gfed|edfd edBd|AdFd EdFd|faeg fdd2||

X: 1
T: The Blue-eyed Lassie
T: Tommy Peoples’
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
S: Frankie Kennedy & Mairead Ni Mhaonaigh - Ceol Aduaidh
K: Dmaj
DFAF BFAd|DFFA BE~E2|DFAF BFAd|faAc ed~d2:|
dffd ceAc|d2AF GFED|A,D (3DDD A,DFA|fade feef|
~a3f gfef|edfd edfd|ADFA EAFA|faAc ed~d2||

Sorry - typo

X: 1
T: The Blue-eyed Lassie
T: Tommy Peoples’
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
S: Frankie Kennedy & Mairead Ni Mhaonaigh - Ceol Aduaidh
K: Dmaj
DFAF BFAd|DFAF BE~E2|DFAF BFAd|faAc ed~d2:|
dffd ceAc|d2AF GFED|A,D (3DDD A,DFA|fade feef|
~a3f gfef|edfd edfd|ADFA EAFA|faAc ed~d2||

“Belles of Lewiston” from Ryan’s MC (#180)