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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:

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)."

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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).