John Bolitho singing Cadgwith Anthem at Withiel Church 2005
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Oll an Gwella singing Cadgwith Anthem at Lowender Peran in 2017
This song seems to have started out life as a Naval song under the name of “The Robber’s Retreat” at the beginning of the 20th century. It was first recorded in Cadgwith as “The Robber’s Retreat” on a wax cylinder probably during the winter of 1931/32 by American Folk Song Collector James Madison Carpenter. By the time it was recorded in Cadgwith by Peter Kennedy in 1956 and published in Inglis Gundry’s Canow Kernow (1960) it was firmly part of the Cornish community singing repertoire and soon acquired a version in the Cornish language.