Rover Through the Bog

Blayne's library files this G-major hornpipe as "Rover Through the Bog," but it travels under a tangle of names: thesession lists it as "Annie's Favourite," and it turns up elsewhere as "The Mountain Groves," "Dinny O'Brien's," and "The Butchers of Bristol." That last title points back to its origins. The Traditional Tune Archive traces it to several 19th-century northern English manuscript collections, including John Rook's 1840 book from Waverton, Cumbria. It moved into Irish piping repertoire in the 20th century, when piper Liam Walsh recorded it in 1930 as "The Mountain Groves" and his pupil Tommy Kearney kept the older "Butchers of Bristol" name. De Danann later recorded it as "Dinny O'Brien's" on The 3rd Irish Folk Festival (1976) — one more alias for a tune that keeps collecting them.