CAT IN THE CORNER, THE [4]. AKA and see "Jerry's Beaver Hat," "Paddy get up," "The Returned Yank."
COCK UP THY/YOUR BEAVER. English, Scottish; Jig (6/8 or 6/4 time). England, Northumberland. C Major. Standard. AABBCC. The title, I believe, refers to a beaver top-hat, popular in the late 18th and early 19th century among fashionable men; to 'cock up' in this sense would be either to wear it at a rakish angle, to tip it or to brush it so as to make it more presentable. "The consistent disparity between Bars 4 & 8 is noteworthy, being repeated thus in each strain. C.f. Bewick's Pipe Tunes, No. 33. Although different in detail, these versions have more in common with each other than with others encountered, e.g. Playford (c. 1725), No. 248; Mooney (Choicest Tunes/Lowland Pipes), pg. 11. A long variation set is found in Playford's Division Violin of 1684, now republished, edited by Margaret Gilmore. In her Concordances, she mentions other versions under the names 'The Horse-race' and 'Newmarkett', but on a first glance 'Cock up thy Beaver' seems to have little in common with our 'Newmarket Races', Vickers No. 288. However, if one extracts the most basic underlying harmony from the Playford divisions, one gets: I,I/II,II/I,I/I,I/IV,I/II,II/I,I/I,I. Comparing this sequence with our No. 288 (and other versions, see Note), one finds it is the same, but displaced, starting at Playford's Bar 7. Alternately, Playford's version starts with Vickers' Bar 3. The tunes obviously became separated at an early date and developed independently. The final curiosity is that the tune common to Vickers and Bewick has the same harmony as Vickers' 'Horse and Away', if one makes some allowances for ambiguity between I and VI chords (relative major and minor)" (Seattle)./ The tune appears in the 1768 Gillespie Manuscript of Perth. The title appears in Henry Robson's list of popular Northumbrian song and dance tunes, which he published c. 1800. Complete Collection of Carolan's Irish Tunes, 1984; No. 204, pg. 137 (variations by Turlough O'Carolan). Seattle (William Vickers), 1987, Part 3; No. 455. Maggie's Music MMCD216, Hesperus - "Early American Roots" (1997).
hATA-FEATAN DIARMADA. AKA and see "Jerry's Beaver Hat."
JERRY'S BEAVER HAT ({h-}Ata-Featan Diarmaid/Diarmada). AKA and see "The Cat in the Corner," "Paddy Get Up," "The Returned Yank." Irish, Double Jig. Ireland; County Sligo, west Kerry. D Major. Standard. AABB. Sources for notated versions: flute player Colm O'Donnell (b. 1962, Aclare, County Sligo) [Flaherty]; accordion player Johnny O'Leary (Sliabh Luachra region of the Cork-Kerry border) [Moylan]; Reuben Smith (b. 1931, Blooming Point, Queen's County, Prince Edward Island) [Perlman]. Flaherty (Trip to Sligo), 1990; pg. 10. Moylan (Johnny O'Leary), 1994; No. 195, pg. 113. Mulvihill (1st Collection), 1986; No. 71, pg. 80. O'Neill (Krassen), 1976; pg. 21. O'Neill (1850), 1903/1979; No. 754, pg. 141. O'Neill (1001 Gems), 1907/1986; No. 40, pg. 23. Perlman (The Fiddle Music of Prince Edward Island), 1996; pg. 136. Taylor (Music for the Sets: Blue Book), 1995; pg. 12. Gael Linn CEF 114, Noel Hill & Tony McMahon - "I gCnoc na Grai" (In Nocknagree). Lochshore CDLDL 1215, Croab Rua - "The More That's Said the Less the Better" (1992).
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PADDY GET UP. AKA and see "Jerry's Beaver Hat," "The Returned Yank." Irish, Jig. Levey (Dance Music of Ireland).
RETURNED YANK, THE. AKA and see "Jerry's Beaver Hat," "Paddy Get Up." The tune under this title is from the Kilfenora Ceili Band. Cotter's Collection.
TEIG MOIRA'S DAUGHTER (Ingean Teig Maire). AKA and see "I Wish You Were My Darling," "It's a Pity the Officer's Son is Not With Us," "I Wish the Shepherd's Pet Was Mine." Irish, Air (4/4 time, "with expression"). G Major. Standard. AB. Francis O'Neill remembered the tune from his Bantry, west Cork, boyhood being sung by his parents. It begins:
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Johnny bought a beaver hat,
Then Johnny bought a new cravat;
Johnny bought more things than that,
To coax Teige Maire's daughter.
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O'Neill (1850), 1979; No. 17, pg. 3.