The Cat That Ate The Candle

reel

Key signature: Eminor

Submitted on November 6th 2001 by Joerg Froese.

This tune has been added to 98 tunebooks.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

• Altan by Altan
• Altan's Finest by Altan
• As We Got Them: Traditional Flute And Fiddle Music From County Sligo by Various Artists
• Dark Of The Moon by Grey Larsen And Paddy League
• The Cat That Ate The Candle by John Carty And Brian McGrath
• The First Ten Years: 1986 - 1995 by Altan
• The Stone In The Field by Tommy Reck
• Wooden Flute Obsession Disk 2 by Various Artists

X: 1
T: Cat That Ate The Candle, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Emin
EB~B2 BAB^c | d2AF DEFD | EA~A2 BAGF |1 GBAF GEEB:|2 GBAF GEE2 ||
Be~e2 Begb | afge fdd2 | ecdB cBAF | GBAF GEE2 |
Be~e2 Begb | a2ge eddf | e2dB cBAF | GBAF GEEB ||

As requested by Irina, this is the reel version about the cat with the funny sense of taste.
Maybe there is still a jig with the same title around. More on that in the thread "Rain in the Bog"...
When I first saw the sheet music on sessioneer.com I had to play it slowly and found later, when I could play it up to reel-tempo, that I like the slow version a lot better.
It is a beautiful tune!

Jörg Fröse

# Posted on November 6th 2001 by Joerg Froese

Composer

Was this tune composed by Frankie Kennedy ?

# Posted on November 14th 2009 by Emmanuel Delahaye

The Cat that Ate the Candle

The notes of the recording say "the cat that ate the candle / over the water to bessie: Frankie learned the first reel from the playing of the late Larry MacDonagh, a flute player from Ballinafad, County Sligo."

Sorry for my duplicated post.

# Posted on November 14th 2009 by slainte