Adam Hag Eva as sung by Mo Keast.

Open downloadable pdf file: Adams_Fall

Dialect and Cornish language Terms:
Baal (Bal) a mine (Cornish)
Bizza Bissoe
Braave big or strong
Cloam i.e. cloam oven
Creedeld Crawled
Geek peep (Cornish)
Kidleewink a pub or bar
Maazd (mazed) confused

Humourous ballads and tales are part of the Cornish dialect tradition. ‘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. The version given here is slightly different from these published versions and is from the singing of Mo Keast, a folk singer and story teller from Bodmin. It was recorded in March 2017 and Mo explained that she had obtained it some 40 years earlier from a singer called Mrs Foxworthy.