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Thread #168353 Message #4067535
Posted By: cnd
06-Aug-20 - 04:39 PM
Thread Name: Origins/ADD: Truro Agricultural Show
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Truro Agricultural Show
Listen to the song here.
Here are the lyrics, from http://www.an-daras.com/music/m_tuneindex_p_truroagriculturalshow.htm - no comment on accuracy! There is also sheet music at that lnk.
Trura Ager-i-cultral Shaw
Collected from Capt. Collett, Perrancoombe 1930 and Frank Trebilcock, Perranporth. Cornish Dialect and Folk Songs p22
Good people oll oo ear me voys,
You now av reason t’ rejoice.
Fer off t’ Trura you may goa
T’ see tha Ager-i-cultral shaw.
But doan ee goa kessen tha maeds you knaw
At tha Trura Ager-i-cultral shaw!
A maazlen pare you will see theer:
Fat fermers an ther wives soa reer,
Their bouncen daughters net an clean
With a pork-py at an a crinoline Soa ...
Frum Newlyn East an Sen Colum too,
Theers’s hump-backed Jim an carroty Joe,
An a speeshel traen upon tha rail
T’ bring all tha thieves from Bodmint jail.
They’ve got a band frum Plumuth down
Tha bettermoast ever woz en town,
An oll tha gintry will be theer.
Tes moast as purdee as Whitsun feer!
Ther’s osses, ponus, cows an caavs
fer Trura doan’t do things be aavs.
Ther be Debm bulls, sheep, pigs an gees.
You geek at un oll fer a shillen a pees.
I’m glad yer cum, I see ee eer,
Thers thowsans cum frum evreeweer.
Rech an poor an igh an law,
at Trura Ager-i-cultral shaw!
But doan ee goa kessen tha maeds you knaw
At tha Trura Ager-i-cultral shaw!
The Bath and West of England Show visited Cornwall in 1861. The Royal Cornwall Show was merged with it and the combined event held at Truro. This song has become the signature tune of Mo Keast who delivers it in broad dialect. Here an attempt has been made to reflect this dialect including one or two changes in vocabulary. Five of the eight verses to be found in Cornish Dialect and Folk Songs are given.
Dialect substitutions: maeds for girls, pare for group, maazlen for motley, bettermost for the best, purdee for pretty, geek for see