Open downloadable pdf file: The_Old_Grey_Duck Dialect Terms: Beels – Beak of a bird Clunk – To swallow Version in Cornish from the “Kanow Tavern” Cornish pub songs project, An Daras 2007: Kemysk Warbarth sung a different version in Cornish as part of thier entry for the Camborne Music Festival
Merv Davey- 29 March 2020
Open downloadable pdf file:Jan_Knuckey Brenda Wootton Singing Jan Knuckey: Dialect terms : Bal – Mine Chelern – Children Fetch’d es coos – found his voice (Coos is derived from the Cornish Kows- to speak) Fooch – To throw out Durns – Door Posts NB “Screech” and “Dander” are used in
- Merv Davey
- 29 March 2020
'Adam's Fall' was set to music by Ralph Dunstan in Lyver Canow Kernow, the Cornish Songbook. It was also published in Sengen Fiddee by the An Daras Cornish Folk Art Project in 2003.
- Merv Davey
- 28 March 2020
The lyrics to Lamorna started life as a broadside called “Down to Pomona”. Pomona was a nineteenth century zoological park in Manchester with a notoriously expensive admission fee intended to discourage working class people, thus the twist in the last verse.
- Merv Davey
- 28 March 2020
'Bro Goth Agan Tasow' is used in the Gorsedh Kernow ceremonies and published in "Ordenal an Orsedh Kernow". The melody is from the Welsh national anthem, Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau. Cornish words were originally written to this tune by Henry Jenner circa the 1920s.
- Merv Davey
- 28 March 2020