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'''KATY JONES REEL'''. AKA - "[[Kitty Jones]]." AKA and see "[[Blue Ribbon (The)]]," "[[Blue Bonnets Hornpipe]]," "[[Green Ribbon (The)]]," "[[Orange and Blue (1)]]." Irish, Reel or Fling. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BB. The tune was recorded by singer, fiddler and button accordion player [[biography:Frank Quinn]] in New York on March 1st, 1925 (backed by Ed Geoghegan on piano). Quinn diddled a few interpolated verses with the tune: | '''KATY JONES REEL'''. AKA - "[[Kitty Jones]]." AKA and see "[[Blue Ribbon (The)]]," "[[Blue Bonnets Hornpipe]]," "[[Green Ribbon (The)]]," "[[Jack Smith's Favorite]]," "[[Orange and Blue (1)]]." Irish, Reel or Fling (whole time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BB. The tune appears as an untitled reel in the large mid-19th century music manuscript collection of Canon James Goodman (County Cork). It was recorded by singer, fiddler and button accordion player [[biography:Frank Quinn]] in New York on March 1st, 1925 (backed by Ed Geoghegan on piano). Quinn diddled a few interpolated verses with the tune: | ||
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KATY JONES REEL. AKA - "Kitty Jones." AKA and see "Blue Ribbon (The)," "Blue Bonnets Hornpipe," "Green Ribbon (The)," "Jack Smith's Favorite," "Orange and Blue (1)." Irish, Reel or Fling (whole time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BB. The tune appears as an untitled reel in the large mid-19th century music manuscript collection of Canon James Goodman (County Cork). It was recorded by singer, fiddler and button accordion player biography:Frank Quinn in New York on March 1st, 1925 (backed by Ed Geoghegan on piano). Quinn diddled a few interpolated verses with the tune:
Oh she kicked me and she battered me.
She nearly broke my bones.
So that's the way she tattered me
My darling Katie Jones
Oh there was a little girl
And she lived in Mullingar,
And she lifted up her petticoat
A-la-la-la-la-la
See also the American variants under the titles "Colonel Crocket (1)," "Jenny on the Railroad," "Route (The)."
Source for notated version:
Printed sources:
Recorded sources: Okeh 21027 (78 RPM), Frank Quinn (1925). Topic TSCD606, Frank Quinn (et al) - "Round the House and Mind the Dresser: Irish Country-House Dance Music" (reissue).