Ally Croker
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Ally Croker", also known as "Ally Croaker", "Ally Crocker", "Alley Crocker", "Alas my Little<br> Bag", "Hunters of Kentucky", "O! The Shamrock", "Reel des Bouchons", "Stick the Minister" or<br> "Shamrock Cockade" is an Irish, Scottish, English, American and Canadian air, reel or country<br> dance in D Major (most versions), B Flat Major (Haverty) or G Major (Thompson).<br> The parts are played One part (Havety, Thompson), AB (Kerr's, Messer), ABB (Brody) or<br> AABB (Miller & Perron, Sloanaker, Sweet).<br> There was a song, written and music composed by Lawrence (Larry) Grogan of Johnstown Castle,<br> County Wexford, who was renowned as a "gentleman piper" and composer of Irish airs. Grogan<br> was the first performer on the improved version of the Irish pipes called the uilleann or<br> Union pipes. In 1803 the air was wedded by George Colman to a song entitled<br> "The Unfortunate Miss Bailey" and Thomas Moore used it for his lyric "O! The Shamrock".<br> It was printed in Brody's Fiddler's Fakebook (1983),<br> Campbell's 9th Book of New and Favorite Country Dances & Strathspey Reels (1795),<br> Cole's 1000 Fiddle Tunes (1940),<br> P.M. Haverty's One Hundred Irish Airs vol. 2 (1858),<br> Kerr's Merry Melodies, vol. 1 (c. 1880),<br> Joseph Lowe's Lowe's Collection of Reels, Strathspeys and Jigs, book 2 (1844–1845),<br> Messer's Way Down East (1948),<br> Messer's Anthology of Favorite Fiddle Tunes (1980),<br> Miller & Perron's New England Fiddlers Repertoire (1983) (appears as "Alice Crocker's Reel"),<br> Ryan's Mammoth Collection (1883),<br> Sweet's Fifer's Delight (1964),<br> Thompson's Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 1 (1757) and<br> Charles, Anne & Samuel Thompson's The Hibernian Muse (1787).<br> It was recorded by Rodney and Randy Miller on Castles in the Air.<br>
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