The Cat That Ate The Candle reel

There are 10 recordings of a tune by this name.

The Cat That Ate The Candle has been added to 138 tunebooks.

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Two settings

X: 1
T: The Cat That Ate The Candle
R: reel
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: Emin
EB~B2 BAB^c | d2AF DEFD | EA~A2 BAGF |1 GBAF GEEB:|2 GBAF GEE2 ||
Be~e2 Begb | afge fdd2 | ecdB cBAF | GBAF GEE2 |
Be~e2 Begb | a2ge eddf | e2dB cBAF | GBAF GEEB ||
X: 2
T: The Cat That Ate The Candle
R: reel
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: Dmaj
A2GB ADDE|FGAB =c2dB|(3ABA GB AGAB|=cAGE FEFG|
(3ABA GB ADDE|FGAB =cAdB|(3ABA GB A3B|=cAGE F3G||
Adde fedf|ed=ce dcAd|Adde fefg|af (3gfe fde^c|
Adde fedf|ed=ce dcAd|Adde f3g|afge fde^c |]
# Added by Zouki .

Eleven comments

As requested by Irina, this is the reel version about the cat with the funny sense of taste.
Maybe there is still a jig with the same title around. More on that in the thread "Rain in the Bog"…
When I first saw the sheet music on sessioneer.com I had to play it slowly and found later, when I could play it up to reel-tempo, that I like the slow version a lot better.
It is a beautiful tune!

J

Composer

Was this tune composed by Frankie Kennedy ?

The Cat that Ate the Candle

The notes of the recording say "the cat that ate the candle / over the water to bessie: Frankie learned the first reel from the playing of the late Larry MacDonagh, a flute player from Ballinafad, County Sligo."

Sorry for my duplicated post.

Cat That Ate The Candle

This is from Ceol Rince na hEireann book 1. Breathnach got it from piper Tommy Reck, who in turn got it from piper John Potts. Neat little tune worth learning just for the name!

# Posted by Zouki .

Look closer……

Sorry "Zouki" - you’re quite wrong there. Frankie Kennedy’s "Cat" has nothing whatsoever in common with the "Cat" which is # 153 in CRE Vol.1. The only thing these 2 tunes have in common is their title. Take a look at the 2 pieces of sheet music above and compare them.
By the way, the link posted by "fiddlins_fun" above has been blocked.

# Posted by Kenny .

Kenny, last time I looked this had been posted as a separate tune. I wonder if Jeremy has combined them by accident..

In which case…..

… my apologies to "Zouki" - but there is actually nothing inaccurate in what I posted above. I just called it as I saw it.

# Posted by Kenny .

Cat That Ate the Candle - CRE version

No harm, no foul. I wasn’t aware there was another version.

# Posted by Zouki .

The Cat that Ate the Candle- 1st setting.

Here’s my rendition of The Cat that Ate the Candle (1st setting).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63K3fJe2qVk

I believe the the other youtube video flute version I posted is actually by Frankie Kennedy. That link works for me- maybe you need to be logged in? The second setting seems to be an entirely different tune.