The original 'Late' Cornish version of 'Delyow Syvy' can be found in both Inglis Gundry's 'Canow Kernow' and also in Peter Kennedy's 'Folksongs of Britain and Ireland'. The version in Merv Davey's 'Hengan' (posted to Mudcat at one time) is an adaptation into Unified Cornish. Does anyone know if Merv's version is the same as the adaptation into Unified Cornish first made by R Morton Nance in 'Old Cornwall', Summer 1947? The 'Hengan' version strays a long way from the original, and I suspect that this has more to do with bowdlerisation than linguistic adaptation as the original meaning was judged by Baring Gould to be "gross". And does anyone have a version in Unified (or Common) Cornish which is closer to the original? Richard
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