Here is a version of the song in more modern spelling:

Ha me ow mos, ha me ow mos en Karn Glas,
Me a glowas, a glowas, a glowas, an tros, an tros, an tros a'n puskes munys.
Bus me a drovyas udn pesk bras, naw y lostyow,
Oll an bobel en Porth Ia ha Marhas Yow
Na me a wor dh'aga senji. (Nevra na wor dh'aga senji.)


As I was going, as I was going in Carn Glaze,
I heard, I heard, I heard, the sound, the sound, the sound of little fish.
But I found one big fish, with nine tails,
All the people in St Ives and Marazion
Nor I know how to keep hold of them. (Never know how to hold them.)

The lyrics are from Capt. Noel Carter of St. Agnes, c. 1698. John Hobson Matthews in "A History of the Parishes of St. Ives, Lelant, Towednack and Zennor" writes about the song:

"On a careful study of this late Cornish fragment I feel certain that it is a Saint Ives ditty and would be fully appreciated only in that neighbourhood. Both the original and the translation above cited contain errors. Thus goon glaze which is rightly translated green downs is I feel sure a mistake for Garn Glaze the feminine mutation of Carn Glaze ('the Grey Rock heap') which is the name of a spot in the old part of that town overlooking the harbour."