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Thread #123870   Message #2731484
Posted By: Joybell
25-Sep-09 - 08:15 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Black Cat Piddled in the White Cat's Eye
Subject: Origins: Black Cat Piddled in the White Cat's Eye
For no particular reason I'm curious about the title of this tune. Also words if they exist.
A tune by this name was collected by Rob Willis from the Cape Barren Islands. That's well documented and its connections with other English tunes is also known.

From 2 sources, one of them Rob Willis, I note that this line was/is used as a paradiddle (drum phrase).

On an old thread here Sandy Paton noted a fragment to the tune of "The Girl I left Behind Me"
Here's what he said:
So I'm thinking maybe a military origin.

Also I'm wondering where it fits with another title I heard, in the 1960s, for a tune called:
"Black Man Piddled in the White Man's Shoe".
Title may belong here too -- "In a White Man's Shoe".
It's the words I'm curious about rather than the tune connections.
Any ideas?
Cheers, Joy