X:1
T:Unfortunate Cup of Tea, The
M:C
L:1/8
R:Reel
Q:"Very quick"
B:R.M. Levey – First Collection of the Dance Music of Ireland (1858, No. 69, p. 27)
Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion
K:Emin
BAGF GEBE|GEBE BAGF|BAGF GAB^c|d2 AG (FD) Dz:|
|:e2 eg fde^c|d2 AG (FD) D2|e2 eg fde^c|dB AF (BE) Ez:|]
UNFORTUNATE CUP OF TEA. AKA and see “Cup of Tea (1) (The),” “Green Cup of Tea (The),” “Mayobridge.” Irish, Reel. E Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. This reel appears in P.M. Haverty’s Three Hundred Irish Airs Arranged for the Pianoforte (New York, 1858-1859), according to O’Neill, and is a rather truncated version of the modern “Cup of Tea” version. "The Unfortunate Cup of Tea" was also entered into the mid-19th century music manuscript collection of County Cork Anglican cleric and uileann piper James Goodman [1]
Additional notes
Printed sources : - Haverty (One Hundred Irish Airs vol. 3), 1859; No. 283, p. 142. Levey (First Collection of the Dance Music of Ireland), 1858; No. 69, p. 27. O’Neill (Irish Minstrels and Musicians), 1913; p. 135.
