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X:1 T:The Cook in the Kitchen [1] M:6/8 L:1/8 R:Jig S:O'Neill - Dance Music of Ireland: 1001 Gems (1907), No. 252 Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:G D | G>DG GAG | FDE F2A | G>DG GFG | Add cAG | G>DG GAG | FDE F2d | cAG FGA | AGG G2 :| |: A| B>cB BAG | ABA AGF | GAG GFG | Add cAG | B>cB BAG | ABA A2d | cAG FGA | AGG G2 :| |: B | d2e f2g | a2g f2d | cAG FGA | Add cAG | d2e f2g | a2g f2d | cAG FGA | AGG G2 :||

COOK IN THE KITCHEN [1], THE (An Cocaire Annsa Cistean) Irish, Double Jig (6/8 time). G Major (Harker/Rafferty, O'Brien): G Major/Mixolydian (most versions). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCC (Harker/Rafferty, O'Brien, O'Neill, Russell): AA'BB'CC' (Mitchell, O'Malley). The 'F' natural note in the second measure is a characteristic of many versions of this tune. A Cape Breton jig titled "Northside Kitchen" shares a closely related first strain. Irish researcher Conor Ward finds the tune is a local manuscript from Gaigue, Ballinamuck, County Longford, not dated but thought to be from c. 1900. Therein it was entered as "Jackson's Cook in the Kitchen" along with a number of other 'Jackson' tunes (which refers to 18th century uilleann piper Walter or Walker Jackson). This manuscript version corresponds to the first two parts of O'Neill's "Cook in the Kitchen," albeit in the key of 'D' major.

Sources for notated versions: the playing partners of Chicago police Sergeant James Early and John McFadden, a piper and fiddler from adjoining counties in the province of Connaght [O'Neill]; piper Willie Clancy (1918-1993, Miltown Malbay, west Clare) [Mitchell]; Terry Lane (Co. Clare) [Russell]; New Jersey flute player Mike Rafferty, born in Ballinakill, Co. Galway, in 1926 [Harker]; from a recording by Jackie Roach [O'Malley]; "Mr. Curran of Ring, who himself got [it] from Fr. Henebry” [Hardebeck].

Additional notes

Source for notated version: -

Printed sources : - Harker (300 Tunes from Mike Rafferty), 2005; No. 189, p. 59. Hardebeck (A Collection of Jigs and Reels vol. 2), Dublin, 1921; p. 22. Mitchell (Willie Clancy), 1993; No. 105, p. 91. O'Malley (Luke O'Malley's Collection of Irish Music, vol. 1), 1976; No. 81, p. 41. O'Brien (Jerry O'Brien's Accordion Instructor), Boston, 1949. O'Neill (O'Neill's Irish Music), 1915; No. 133, p. 77. O'Neill (Krassen), 1976; p. 59. O'Neill (Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies), 1903; No. 1042, p. 195. O'Neill (Dance Music of Ireland: 1001 Gems), 1907; No. 252, p. 56. Russell (The Piper's Chair), 1989; p. 9.

Recorded sources: -GTD Heritage Trad. HCD 008, Tommy Peoples - "Traditional Irish Music Played on the Fiddle." Shanachie 79093, Paddy Glackin & Robbie Hannan - "The Whirlwind" (1995). Topic TSCD 602, The Flanagan Brothers - "Irish Dance Music" (1995. A reissue of the 1923 original).

See also listings at:
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [1]
Alan Ng's Irishtune.info [2]

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