Buttered Peas
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Buttered Peas", also known as<br> "Butter to peas", "Pwt ar y bys", "Caithness", "Highland Wedding",<br> "Jack's be the Daddy On't", "Reel of Stumpie", "Stumpie/Stumpey" or "No Man's Jig"<br> is an English or Welsh air, reel or country dance tune in cut time and D Major.<br> The parts are played AABB.<br> The tune can be found in James Ralph's Fashionable Lady (1730) and subsequently<br> appeared in English ballad operas of the early 1730's such as John Gay's Achilles (1733),<br> The Fashionable Lady, or Harlequin's Opera (1730), The Female Parson (1730),<br> The Boarding School (1732), The Decoy (1733) and The Whim (1734).<br> "Buttered Pease" appears in several tune books and fiddlers' manuscripts from the 18th<br> century. It was published by Walsh in his Compleat Country Dancing Master (1731)<br> and in a later (1754) edition of the same volume, by Johnson in Daniel Wright's<br> Complete Collection of Celebrated Country Dances (1740), by Charles and Samuel Thompson<br> in their Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 2 (1765) and by<br> James Aird in vol. 1 of his Selections of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs<br> (1782).<br> The tune was entered into the large mid-19th century music manuscript collection of<br> County Cork cleric and uilleann piper Canon James Goodman under the title “Butter to<br> peas”.<br> Derivations (of the second strain) are included in the southwestern Pennsylvania-collected versions<br> of "Drunken Sailor", well known by fifers and played as a march.<br> Angus Mackay arranged the tune for the Highland pipes and called it "Highland Wedding".<br> It was printed in Aird's Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. 1<br> (1782),<br> Hall & Stafford's Charlton Memorial Tune Book (1956),<br> Elias Howe's Musician’s Omnibus Nos. 6 & 7 (1880-1882),<br> Offord's John of the Green: Ye Cheshire Way (1985) and Bonny Cumberland (2018),<br> Peacock's Tunes (c. 1805),<br> Raven's English Country Dance Tunes (1984),<br> Scott's English Song Book (1926),<br> Thompson's Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 2 (1765),<br> Walsh's Complete Country Dancing-Master, Volume the Fourth (1740) and<br> Caledonian Country Dances (c. 1745) and<br> Wilson's A Companion to the Ballroom (1816).<br> It was recorded by Hesperus on Early American Roots (1997),<br> Bonnie Shaljean on Farewell to Lough Neaghe (as "Pwt ar y bys") (198?),<br> Robin Huw Bowen on Harp Music of Wales and<br> Bonnie Shaljean and Robin Huw Bowen onTraditional Dance Music of Britain & Ireland<br> (2018, as "Pwt ar y bys").<br>
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