The Ladies' Pantalettes (1)
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"The Ladies' Pantalettes (1)", in Gaelic "Bristide na M-Ban" or "Drairini na Mna Uaisle", also<br> known "The Blue Pantaloons", "The Boatman's Reel", "The Crooked Road to Dublin",<br> "The Duke of Leinster's Wife", "Gardner's Favorite", "The Green Pantaloons",<br> "The Grey Frieze Breeches", "Johnny Sally's Reel", "Leonard's Reel",<br> "Ladies Pantaloos", "Ladys Pantaloons", "McKeon's", "Pat the Fowler" or "Smash the Floor" is an<br> Irish reel in G Major or G Mixolydian. The parts are played AB (Mitchell, O'Connor,<br> O'Neill/1001) or AAB (Breathnach, Kennedy, Krassen/O'Neill). The tune is circular so I have<br> added a fine to end the tune. For a minor key version, see "The Ladies' Pantalettes (2)".<br> Pantalettes were a type of calf-length ruffled undergarment worn by 19th century women<br> underneath their voluminous skirts.<br> O'Neill's titles are "Ladies' Pantalettes" and "Pat the Fowler".<br> Mid-19th century County Cork cleric and uilleann piper James Goodman gave it as<br> "The Green Pantaloons" in his manuscript collection, while Gortletteragh, County Leitrim,<br> fiddler Stephen Grier entered it as "The Blue Pantaloons" in his c. 1883 manuscript.<br> O'Neill (Irish Folk Music, 1910) relates that he first heard this tune while on duty as Desk<br> Sergeant at the Deering Street police station:<br> The strains of a slashing but unfamiliar reel floating out on the night air from the<br> lowered windows of Finucane's Hall caught my eager ear one Saturday night, when Tommy Owens<br> was playing for a party...as the police station was just across the street, I had little<br> difficulty in memorizing the tune. Although it had never been printed it soon gained wide<br> circulation among experts, and it had become such a favorite with Inspector John D. Shea<br> (the Chief of Detectives), that it has since been identified with his name.<br> It was printed in Breathnach's Ceol Rince na hÉireann vol. III (1985),<br> Cotter's Traditional Irish Tin Whistle Tutor (1989),<br> Kennedy's Traditional Dance Music of Britain and Ireland: Reels and Rants (1997),<br> Mitchell's Dance Music of Willie Clancy (1993),<br> Gerry O'Connor's The Rose in the Gap (2018),<br> O'Neill's O'Neill's Irish Music (1915),<br> Krassen's O'Neill's Music of Ireland (1976),<br> O'Neill's Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies (1903),<br> O'Neill's Dance Music of Ireland: 1001 Gems (1907) and<br> Taylor's Music for the Sets: Blue Book (1995).<br> It was recorded by Willie Clancy on The Pipering of Willie Clancy, vol. 1 (1980),<br> Eddie Mullaney and Patrick Stack (1926) and<br> Bela Fleck and the Chieftains on Down the Old Plank Road (2002).<br>
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