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[[File:Peg O My Heart Cover 2.jpg|thumb|Sheet music cover, 1913 with image of [[Laurette Taylor]] in her title role in the  [[Peg o' My Heart (play)|play]].]]
"'''Peg o' My Heart'''" is a popular song written by [[Alfred Bryan]] (words) and [[Fred Fisher]] (music). It was published on March 15, 1913 and it featured in the 1913 musical ''[[Ziegfeld Follies]]''.

The song was first performed publicly by Irving Kaufman in 1912 at The College Inn in New York City after he had stumbled across a draft of sheet music on a shelf at the Leo Feist offices. {{citation needed|date=April 2014}}

The song was inspired by the main character in the very successful [[musical comedy]] of the time, [[Peg o' My Heart (play)|Peg O’ My Heart]] by [[J. Hartley Manners]], which starred [[Laurette Taylor]] in the title role. Taylor appeared on the cover of early published sheet music.

The song, performed by [[Max Harris (composer)|Max Harris]] and his Novelty Trio (based on a version by [[The Harmonicats]]), was used as the theme of the [[BBC]] miniseries ''[[The Singing Detective]]'' (1986).  When recording engineer [[Bill Putnam]] recorded [[The Harmonicats]] version of the song, he became the first person to use artificial reverberation creatively on a pop recording, with the use of the first reverb chamber, which had been set up in the studio's bathroom.{{citation needed|date=April 2013}}

[[Celtic punk]] band [[Dropkick Murphys]] covered the song on their 2011 album, [[Going Out In Style]]. Their version features a guest appearance by [[Bruce Springsteen]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gibson.com/en-us/Lifestyle/News/dropkick-murphys-0124-2011/ |title=Bruce Springsteen Guests on Dropkick Murphys Album |publisher=Gibson.com |date=2011-01-24 |accessdate=2013-05-20}}</ref>