Pat The Budgie

reel

Key signature: Dmajor

Submitted on May 4th 2004 by Johannes J.

This tune has been added to 30 tunebooks.

Also known as Pat The Budgie Breakdown.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

• Barking Mad by Four Men And A Dog
• East Of The Tracks by Brigetown
• Here And There by Seamus Connolly
• Long Roads by Four Men And A Dog
• Time On Our Hands by SiobhᮠPeoples And Murty Ryan

X: 1
T: Pat The Budgie
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Dmaj
|:D2 DF A3 F|GFGB e3 d|cA ~A2 ^GABc|1 dcde fdAF:|2 ~d2 ce d2 ef||
|:g2 gf gbag|fddc d2 Bd|cA ~A2 cdec|1 dcde fedf:|2 ~d2 ce d2 fg||
|:a2 z2 b3 f|abaf dafd|cA ~A2 cdec|1 dcde fdfg:|2 ~d2 ce d4||

D version

I think the original version of this Graham Townsend tune was in C but this setting is maybe more session friendly.

Apparently, Pat the Budgie perched on Graham's bow while he played.

# Posted on May 4th 2004 by Johannes J

C version

The version on Time On Our Hands uses the 2nd part as an intro and then goes roughly like this (with loads of variations):

X: 1
T: Pat The Budgie
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Cmaj
C3E ~G3E|~F3A dedc|BG~G2 ^FGAB|c3d ecGE|
~C3E ~G3E|FEFA d2^cd|BG~G2 ^FGAB|1 c2dB cAGE:|2 c2dB c2eg||
|:~f3e f2gf|eccB c2dc|~B3G ^FGAB|c2dg ecde|
~f3e f2gf|eccB cedc|~B3G ^FGAB|1 c2dB c2eg:|2 c2dB cde^f||
|:gc~c2 ac~c2|gage c2dc|BG~G2 ^FGAB|c3d ede^f|
~g3e ~a3e|gage cedc|BG~G2 ^FGAB|1 c2Bd cde^f:|2 c2Bd cAGE||

# Posted on March 10th 2008 by Dow