The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #120955   Message #2635827
Posted By: doc.tom
19-May-09 - 12:54 PM
Thread Name: Cornish Nightingale
Subject: RE: Cornish Nightingale
Oh dear, Oh dear.
The Nightingale, a widespread song collected in other counties too, became, in Charlie Bate's version, known as The Cornish Nightingale from the late 60s in order to distinguish it from the "both sat down together love" Nightingale which had been adopted from the revival into the local vernacular tradition at that point.