Annotation:Taidhgín an Asail
X: 1 T: Taidhgín an Asail's Jig T: Kitchen With No Food S: "Johnny O'Leary of Sliabh Luachra" (#251) Z: B.Black N: version of "Where's the Cat?" L: 1/8 M: 12/8 Q: 375 R: slide F:http://www.john-chambers.us/~jc/music/abc/mirror/redhawk.org/zouki/t.abc K:G DED G2D EED G2G|DED G2B ABG A2D|DED G2G EED G3|Bcd c2B ABG EED :| B/A/Bc d2B AGE c3|BAB ddB ABG E2D|BGB d2B AGE c3|g/f/ge d2B ABG E2D :|
TAIDHGÍN AN ASAIL’S JIG (Port Thaidhgín an Asail). AKA and see “Child's Ramble to the Cat's Saucer (The),” “Kitchen with No Food (The),” ”Tadeen the Donkey,” “Tadeen the Fiddler's Jig,” “Where is the Cat?” Irish, Slide (12/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Taidhgín an Asail (Tadeen the Fiddler), or Tadhg Ó Buachalla, was a blind Sliabh Luachra fiddle player from whom Tom Billy Murphy (1879-1944), the influential west Kerry fiddler (father of Dennis Murphy and Julia Clifford), learned his music. Tom Billy called the tune “The Kitchen with No Food” and usually followed it with “Lonesome Road (The)” (Moylan).
