Kitty's Gone a-Milking
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Kitty's Gone a-Milking", also known as "Kitty Goes a-Milking" or "Kitty is Gone a-Milking"<br> is an Irish reel in cut or whole time and G Major. The parts are played AB (O'Malley,<br> Tubridy), AAB (Harker/Rafferty, Stanford/Petrie), AABB (Mulvihill) or AABB' (Mitchell).<br> A version which appears (as "Kitty is Gone a-Milking") in the mid-19th century music<br> manuscript collection of Canon James Goodman (County Cork).<br> The tune was included in a three-tune medley recorded on a 78 RPM disk by<br> County Meath fiddler Frank O'Higgins, featured on early Irish radio broadcasts.<br> O’Higgins (1891-1975), a fiddler from Glenamona, Kilskeer, County Meath, recorded it<br> in Dublin in 1938. He paired the tune with<br> "The Merry Sisters" and<br> "The Dogs Among the Bushes",<br> a medley still widely played.<br> The second strain of<br> "Kitty's gone a milking" is cognate with the second strain of<br> "Repeal of the Union".<br> It was printed in Bulmer & Sharpley's Music from Ireland (1974),<br> Harker's 300 Tunes from Mike Rafferty (2005),<br> Mitchell's Dance Music of Willie Clancy (1976),<br> Mulvihill's 1st Collection (1986),<br> O'Malley's Luke O'Malley's Collection of Irish Music, vol. 1 (1976),<br> Stanford/Petrie's Complete Collection (1905) and<br> Tubridy's Irish Traditional Music, Book Two (1999).<br> It was recorded by Willie Clancy on The Pipering of Willie Clancy vol. 2 (1983),<br> Boys of the Lough on Good Friends, Good Music (1977),<br> The Chieftains on The Chieftains #1 (1964),<br> Paddy Glackin & Robbie Hannan on The Whirlwind (1995) and<br> Frank O'Higgins (1938).<br>
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