Annotation:Kitty's Rambles
X:2 T:Kitty's Rambles to Youghall M:6/8 L:1/8 R:Jig S:O'Farrell - Pocket Companion, vol. 1 (c. 1805) Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:Dmin D | AGF c2A | def geg | fed cAF | GBA/G/ FDD | A2D c2A | def geg | fed cAG | Adc d2 :| |: A | dfa dfa | dfa afd | ceg ceg | ceg gfe | fdd gdd | aba gfe | fed cAG | Adc d2 :|
KITTY'S RAMBLE{S} (Triallta Caitilin). AKA and see "Katie's Rambles," "Katy's Rambles," "Kitty's Rambles to Youghal," "Hag with Her Keg on Her Shoulder," "Heart of My Kitty Still Warms to Me," "Heart of My Kitty for Me," "Dan the Cobbler," "Ladies Triumph (3)," "Rambles of Kitty," "Murray's Maggot," "I'm a Man in Myself Like Oliver's Bull," "Strop the Razor (1)," "Young Ettie Lee," "Linehan's Rambles," "Chailleach is a Ceag ar a Gualainn (An)." Irish, Double Jig. D Major (Allan, Levy): D Major/Mixolydian (Breathnach, Kerr, O'Neill {all versions}, Taylor): D Minor (Haverty, O'Farrell). Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB (Kerr): AABB (Allan's, Breathnach, O'Farrell, O'Neill/Krassen & 1915): AABBCC (Taylor): AABBCCDD (O'Neill/1850 & 1001). A simpler, two-part version of the tune is known as "Dan the Cobbler" and "Ladies Triumph (The)." Set as an air, it is called "Heart of My Kitty for Me" in O'Neill's Waifs and Strays (1922, No. 65). Joyce's two-strain "I'm a Man in Myself Like Oliver's Bull" is also a version and can be found in his 1909 publication Old Irish Folk Music and Songs. See also the second part of "Cobbler (2) (The)" in McDermott's Allen's Irish Fiddler (c. 1920's). "Fanning's" is a related jig.
A version, a bit distanced from the original, appears in the large 1840 music manuscript collection of multi-instrumentalist John Rook, of Waverton, near the market town of Wigton, Cumbria.
