Recorded by Ralph Dunstan from the singing of Jim Thomas, Camborne.
Recorded by Ralph Dunstan from the singing of Jim Thomas, Camborne, November 23, 1931.
Recorded from the singing of Jim Thomas by Ralph Dunstan and published in Cornish Dialect and Folk Song, Jordan's Bookshop, Truro 1932
Lyrics from a poem by Sir Humphry Davy set to music by Ralph Dunstan and published in The Cornish Song Book: Lyver Canow Kernewek, 1929
This version, and melody, were well-known in West Cornwall fifty or sixty years ago. The words, which are an interesting commentary on old Christmas and New Year customs, were communicated (from an old MS. and from personal recollection) in 1912, by Mr. Wm. Dunstan, of Carnon Downs, near Truro.
The mermaid, or "merry-maid," has haunted the shores of old Comwall from time immemorial, and lured many a Cornish sailor and fisherman ("to whom the supersitions of mermen and mermaidens had the familiarity oa a creed) to a watery grave. The mermaids of St. Just, Zennor, St lvcs, Padstow and
A Grey Day, lyrics by Kitty Lee, music by Ralph Dunstan published in the Cornish Song Book, Lyver Canow Kernow in 1929. Kitty Lee or Katherine Lee was the pen name of Katherine Jenner, formative member and Bard of Gorsedh Kernow.
Boats of Sennen, lyrics by Kitty Lee, music by Ralph Dunstan published in the Cornish Song Book, Lyver Canow Kernow in 1929. Kitty Lee or Katherine Lee was the pen name of Katherine Jenner, formative member and Bard of Gorsedh Kernow. She published six novels and and three non fiction
The Cornish Song Book: Lyver Canow Kernewek was edited and arranged by Dr Ralph Dunstan and published in 1929. Originally initiated by the London Cornish Association, who wanted a book of community songs for Cornish expatriates, it eventually became a collaborative effort between them, the Federation of Old Cornwall Societies,