Belle Catherine

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Key: D

Form: Reel

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ABC:

X: 1
T: La Belle Catherine
R: reel
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: Dmaj
|:DD FA d(fed)|cc Ac BBGB|A>B A>G FAdf|gg (fa) ec d2:|
|:M:6/4
(fa) (3aaa (fd)(ef) (gb) (3bbb|M:4/4
(fa) (3aaa (fd)(ef)|gbea fd dd|
M:6/4
(fa) (3aaa (fd)(ef) (gb) (3bbb|M:4/4
(fa) (3aaa (fd)(ef)|g2 (fa) ec dd:|
|:DD FA d(fed)|cc Ac BBGB|A>B A>G FAdf|gg (fa) ec d2:|
|:DFA(F DF)AF|(DG)(BG) DGBG|DFA(F DF)AF|A,CE(C A,C)EC|
DFA(F DF)AF|(DG)(BG) DGBG|A>B A>G FAdf|gg(fa) ec d2:|

YouTube: André Brunet and Martine Billette playing at an outdoor concert at the Goderich Celtic College, 2007.

Source: Trad.*

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Region: Quebec

*Notes: As played by Louis Boudreault, AAABBAAACCAAABBAACCAAABB.
JeanRhéaume sends this interesting explanation for the name Catherine in the title: “it is a Vielle fille,a girl who never found a husband.It is from the Holiday,La fête de la Ste-Catherine, specially dedicated to those women who never married and when we prepare the Ste-Catherine taffy.”

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