Is Fennario a real place?
“Pretty Peggy-O” tells the story of soldiers leaving a place called Fennario. There’s no such place in the real world, and David Dodd points out in The Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics that it is probably derived from the British word “fen”, which refers to flat, muddy lands, especially around Cambridgeshire.
How old is Peggy?
| Peggy O’Neil | |
|---|---|
| Born | Margaret “Peggy” O’Neil16 June 1898 Gneeveguilla, County Kerry, Ireland |
| Died | 7 January 1960 (aged 61) London, England, U.K. |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1913–1938 |
Where is Fennario located?
Fyvie is a real town in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. “Fennario”, then, was made up as a four syllable variation of “Fyvie-O”. You say that the American source of “Peggy-O” is Cecil Sharp’s ballad #95, “Pretty Peggy-O” and, yes, they are essentially the same song.
Who wrote Fennario?
The Bonnie Lass o’ Fyvie (Roud # 545) is a Scottish folk song about a thwarted romance between a soldier and a girl. Like many folk songs, the authorship is unattributed, there is no strict version of the lyrics, and it is often referred to by its opening line “There once was a troop o’ Irish dragoons”.
What album is Peggy O on?
Dick’s Picks, Volume 15: Englishtown, NJ 9/3/77
Peggy-O/Album
Who was Peggy Oneil?
Peggy Yvonne O’Neal AO (born 19 April 1952) is an American-born Australian lawyer who, since October 2013, has served as the president of the Richmond Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). She is the first woman in AFL history to serve as a club president.
Who wrote Peggy 0?
Stephen Scobie, the author of Alias: Bob Dylan, posted a history of the song on the newsgroup rec. music. dylan (RMD). His post sheds some light on the rather cryptic lyrics (the lyrics analysed by Scobie below are from a different version than the one Dylan used – the lyrics to both versions are below):
Who wrote Dire Wolf?
Jerry Garcia
Dire Wolf/Composers
What does Bonnie Lass mean?
Bonnie. Pronounced bon-ee. Pretty or beautiful. A pretty young women could be described as “a bonnie lass”, an attractive man as “a bonnie lad”.
Who sings Peggy O Grateful Dead?
Grateful Dead
Peggy-O/Artists
When did the Grateful Dead first perform Peggy O?
December 12, 1973
“Peggy-O” is the traditional song that started me on this research project of investigating the traditional backgrounds of songs by the Dead. It is also know as “Fennario,” and “Bonnie Barbara, O.” It was first performed by the Grateful Dead December 12, 1973.
What nationality is Peggy O Neal?
Australian
Peggy O’Neal/Nationality
Who is David Fennario and what is he known for?
David Fennario. David William Fennario, (born David Wiper, 26 April 1947) is a Canadian playwright best known for Balconville (1979), his bilingual dramatization of life in working-class Montreal, for which he won the Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award.
Is there a town called Fennario in Scotland?
There actually is a town called Fyvie, in Aberdeenshire. The Kingdom of Fife is south of there. Subject: RE: Where’s Fennario? But “Pretty Peggy of Derby, O” was somewhat earlier than “The Bonnie Lass of Fyvie, O”. Subject: RE: Where’s Fennario?
Where did the name Fennario come from in the Grateful Dead?
Fennario is the fictitious name of a town in a folksong called Pretty Peggy-o. Some scholars believe the original town to be Fyvie in Scotland, based on similar over-lapping variant iterations of the song.
Is there an English version of the song Fennario?
More particularly, the “Fennario’ version is only in Sharp and Karpeles’ ‘English Folk Songs from the Southerrn Appalachians’, A version, and the tune there is slightly altered from that in the book of 1880. And the Irish (and Scots) tune “Pretty Peggy of Derby, O” has not been collected with any American version of the song.
