Key signature: Amajor
Submitted on September 5th 2002 by Paul-Kin.
This tune has been added to 17 tunebooks.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Fat Cat, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: hornpipe
K: Amaj
A,2CuE FEcB|AEFA FECE|cBBA F2EC|B,2A,B, CEEC|
A,2CE FEcB|AEFA FECE|cBBA F2EC|B,A,CB, A,3 B,:||
|:~C2EC A,CEA|~c2Bc AF E2|"*"a6 fe|c2BA F2AF|
EA,CE EFFA|c2Bc AF E2|"*"a6 BA|1 F2EF A4:|2 F2EC A,4|]
Tommy Peoples
This is on the Quiet Glen album by Tommy People. He composed this tune. Lovely album. High part of the road is my favorite album by Tommy.
# Posted on September 5th 2002 by Paul-Kin
i actually learned this from him as a reel, but it's a nice tune both ways. I haven't heard it on that recording.
In the third measure of the B part he did a little "meow" which is why he called it the Fat Cat, where he slides the A down just slightly to about a g#, and then back up.
# Posted on January 12th 2005 by heth
I've heard him play it both ways, but he always does the 4 rolls in a row on the low A in the first half of the A part (and specifically wrote it out that way when he wrote out sheetmusic) and plays it normally on the second half (the same way he plays it on the quiet glen).
# Posted on December 26th 2006 by acm116
if you haven't heard Tommy People playing this tune,
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1) you've missed some great art,
2) you don't know yet how to play a hornpipe (the only way!
# Posted on June 22nd 2009 by birlibirdie
I mean the best way to play a hornpipe, of course, is not at all!
Your second best option is passing it off for something else.
Here's a brilliant example of that: This is a brilliant tune but you have to make a conscious effort to realise it is actually a hornpipe. How refreshing when so many hornpipes are hornpipes first and tunes second...
# Posted on May 25th 2010 by birlibirdie
B.S.
# Posted on September 22nd 2010 by ceolachan