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Thread #126264   Message #2804387
Posted By: Jack Campin
05-Jan-10 - 07:11 PM
Thread Name: Twa Corbies in Friesian
Subject: RE: Twa Corbies in Friesian
Here for the record is the Breton tune as I first learned it - I came across this booklet before ever hearing the Scottish ballad. There are quite a few rhythmic differences from the way most people sing it in Scotland these days, and bugger the folk process, I like the original better.

X:1
T:An Alarh
S:Kendal'ch: "Kanomp Uhel", Cooperative Breizh, La Baule, 1977
M:2/4
L:1/8
Q:1/4=80
K:AMin
E|       A B      c z | A2 G      G   |[M:2/8] A
w:Eun      a- larc'h eun,   a- larc'h tre-         mor
E|[M:2/4]A B      c z | A2 G      G   |[M:2/8] A
w:Eun      a- larc'h eun,   a- larc'h tre-         mor
c |[M:2/4]c    d    e>    e   |d>   c (c2 | B4)||
w:War       lein tour moal kas- tell Ar- vor_!
P:Chorus
   A   B    c    B/   A/ | A    G/   G/ A z |HE2 z2|
w:Din! din! daon! d'an em- gann d'an em- gann, o!
A    B    c    B/   A/ | A    G   HA2    |]
w:Din! din- daon! d'an em- gann ez   an!


I never met Blythman, but I once sang "The Twa Corbies" that way with one of his close friends listening: she thought he would have liked what I did with it. (I was using a Black Sea fiddle for a drony accompaniment, no attempt to boogie it up as most singer-guitarists do).