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Thread #49792 Message #754419
Posted By: radriano
25-Jul-02 - 11:49 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Cornish Ploughboys
Subject: RE: Help with chorus of 'Cornish Ploughboys'
Here are the liner notes for Cornish Ploughboys from Tom & Barbara Brown's cd Where Umber Flows:
"A version of the 'Cornish Ox-driver's Song' - more usually known in the version collected at Mawgan in Pyder from Joseph Dyer. I had this version from Dave Huthnance at the folk club that Mervyn Vincent and Charlie Bate used to run at the Bridge on Wool in Wadebridge back in the 1960s. I was only 16 at the time - Dave Huthnance was only 15! I suspect that, in this form, the song owes a fair bit to Ralph Dunstan." - Tom Brown.