A MEVAGISSEY SONG: “PLUMMETING.”
Review of Plummeting by Herbert Thomas, The Cornishman 24th January 1935 p3
“We know that Bernard Moore and many other writers of Cornish verse have had some of their ballads set to music and Mr. A. W. Jordan. Truro, now publishes “A Mevagissey Song ‘Plummeting’ ” words Frank Barron and music by Samuel Rowe, which is offered at 6d and is suitable for quartette and may be sung without fee or licence. This fishing song is composed by two Mevagissey men and is yet another embodiment of industry and zeal worthy of its authors and the Cornish Land.The first verse reads:
Empty maunds ‘pon jetty head;
Mackerel out in the bay
Bait we’ve got, Boat es a’flot
Down be the western kay
Gether yer leads and yer lines my sen
Git a good spinner that shines me sen
Drop what you’m bout, Come along out
A plummeting, a plumetting.
I suggest that the “Old Cornwall Societies “ should for the time drop all ordinary English songs out of their programmes and make us familiar with the air and words of songs as “Plummeting”.
