Annotation:Unfortunate Cup of Tea
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]
