Wassail (Carnon Downs)

The Carnon Downs Wassail

From Ralph Dunstan’s Cornish Song Book 1929, p.132


Dunstan’s notes:

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.

See also

The Cornish Song Book: Lyver Canow Kernewek

Lyver Canow Kernewek: An Ideological Battleground

Ralph Dunstan

Cornish Wassails

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