O Spirit of the Cornish Land” was written by R.J. Noall and included in a pamphlet of songs titled “Cornish Patriotic and Dialect Songs” published in 1934
See: Racca 190 – Cornish Tunes For Cornish Sessions Project 1995-97 Also: Sengen Fiddee
Audio File: Plethyn A Dry – Three Hand Reel as played by Lowender Peran Festival Band 1987 As Played By Charlie Bate for Padstow Old Cornwall Society in 1976 W.Arthur Pascoe’s Three Hand Reel 1929 Notes Cornish version of a tune played across Britain, Ireland and also in New England
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
In the heat of the day what a little we can do! We lay by the plough for an hour or two, On the banks of sweet violets where we take our rest While the cool stormy winds blow around us so fast. If the farmer has no corn, no
Ow Avon Splann Skrifys gans Brian Webb Ow avon splann, ow avon efan Ow resek heb lett dhe’n mor; Ow avon splann, ow avon efan, Ow treghi dha fordh der an dor. An lanwes re lanhas olow treys an klavrek Ysold yth esa ow toen. Dha dhowrow re welas
Open downloadable pdf file: The_Old_Grey_Duck Dialect Terms: Beels – Beak of a bird Clunk – To swallow The Old Grey Duck was published in Ralph Dunstan’s in Cornish Dialect & Folk Songs, Ralph Dunstan,Cornish Dialect and Folk Songs, (Truro, Jordan’s Bookshop, 1932) where he says “This song is known