The tune and lyrics were sent to Rev Sabine Baring Gould by J S Cayzer of Penzance dated 1850: Plymouth and Devon Archive: Sabine Baring Gould Personal copy mss, Vol 1 no 47. (SBG/1/1/243) See Racca: Cornish Tunes For Cornish Sessions Project & Hengan: Traditional Folk Songs Dances And
An Awhesyth / Lark as collected for the Racca Project 1995-7 See Racca: Cornish Tunes For Cornish Sessions Project Also discussion of song origins and variations: An Awhesyth
Cornish version of a tune played across Britain, Ireland and also in New England known variously as Come Dance And Sing, La Belle Catharine, Muffin Man.
Audio File: Off She Goes as played by Lowender Peran Festival Band 1987 Notes Ralph Dunstan Lyver Canow Kernewek / Cornish Song Book (London Reid Bros,1929), p.76 Racca no. 103 : Racca – Cornish Tunes For Cornish Sessions Project 1995-97
Audio File – Harvey Darvey played for Dancing – Catch Up Your Heels 2005: Several versions of Harvey Darvey were recorded by the Racca Project 195-97 Notes on Harvey Darvey: Old Cornwall Journal Vol. 1. No. 6, p.36 Mr R J Noall has shown the St Ives Old Cornwall Society
Audio File- as played by Lowender Peran Festival Band 1987: Included in Racca: Cornish Tunes for Cornish Sessions Project 1995 – 1997 See Racca no.48 : Racca Cornish Tunes For Cornish Sessions Project 1995-97 Ralph Dunstan Lyver Canow Kernewek – Cornish Song Book (London, Reid Bros, 1929) p78
click to open downloadable pdf of score with lyrics:Heva Dance Audio File- Heva Dance from Shallal Project: Notes In 1961 Newquay created its own Furry Dance called the Heva see Newquay Heva Dance and Song This signalled a revival of interest in Cornish Furry Dance tradition and many other Cornish
Click to open downloadable pdf of score Warleggan Ox Driver – Racca Project 155 Notes Tune provided in Ralph Dunstan’s Lyver Canow Kernewek / Cornish Song Book (London, Reid & Co, 1929) but no source given. See The Ploughboy for related tunes and songs See Racca no 155: Racca Cornish
As played at Benbow Cornish Session Two versions of Fer Lyskerrys / Liskeard Fair recorded in the Racca Project 1995-1997. Fer Lyskerrys as played by the Lowender Festival Band in 1987 (Version 2) The tune, Liskeard Fair, is noted down in Rev Sabine Baring Gould’s Rough Notebook Vol
Step or “Scoot” dances like Boscastle Breakdown are a conversation between dancer and musician, a duet between melody and percussion. Both musician and dancer introduce variations to the tune, the percussion, and the speed.