There are several YouTube clips of this tune (they're all instrumentals). Here are two links with the poster's summary statements:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PI2ps9hpD8
Black Cat Piddled in the White Cat's Eye


CharltonSound
May 07, 2008

"Fiddlers' Tour jam session at Muddy Cup Cafe, Schenectady NY. This is a Tazmanian tune, brought to the states by one of the session's fiddlers who took up residence "down under." She takes the prize for the person who has traveled the farthest just to get to a jam."


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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzDHaM56NPM&feature=related

Black Cat Piddled in the White Cat's Eye, Frances Folk Gathering 2009

Dmentias
February 22, 2009

"Black Cat is an Australian collected tune from the Cape Barren islands in Bass Straight. Catchy and fast and popular at sessions or wherever folk musicians meet. This version is played in G the most popular key for the area"

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Are these YouTube summaries correct in their statements that this song is from Australia? (Joybell, you wrote that "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." But I don't know where the Cape Barren Islands are. Also, one of the YouTube summaries indicated that this is a Tasmanian song. Is Tasmania in Australia? (I apologize for my lack of knowlege about the country/continent of Austtralia).

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This is directed to Michael, are those words in the first post to this thread the only words you sang to that song? If not, what are the additional words to the songs? And, Michael, what does songs of a 'disobliging' nature" mean in you sentence "While in the British Army I naturally learned many songs of what Bert Lloyd used to call a 'disobliging' nature, but oddly this wasn't one of them"

Thank you.