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, Little Tadgh of the Donkey). AKA and see “Child's Ramble to the Cat's Saucer (The),” “Kitchen with No Food,” ”Tadeen the Donkey,” “Tadeen the Fiddler's Jig,” “Where is the Cat?” Irish, Slide (12/8 time). G Major (set in D Mixoldyian by Mulvihill). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Taidhgín an Asail, AKA Tadeen the Fiddler, Tadeen the Donkey, or Tadhg Ó Buachalla (anglicized as Timothy Buckley), was a blind peripatetic Sliabh Luachra fiddle player and sometime cobbler whose hey-day was in the latter 19th century, when he traveled by donkey on his teaching circuit. Tadgh is thought to have been a student of Corney Drew, and was himself a fiddle teacher to Din Tarrant and Tom Billy Murphy (1879-1944), from whom the latter learned much of his music. Din and Tom Billy became influential west Kerry fiddlers of their generation (Tom Billy was the father of 20th century fiddlers Dennis Murphy and Julia Clifford). Tom Billy called the tune “The Kitchen with No Food” and usually followed it with “Lonesome Road (The)” (Moylan).
