Lyr Req: Cornish Floral Dance?

Subject: Cornish Floral Dance?
From: GUEST,McBride
Date: 16 Aug 01 - 01:34 PM

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Cornish Floral Dance?
From: MMario
Date: 16 Aug 01 - 01:42 PM

cornish floral dance

FAQ for Floral Dance

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Cornish Floral Dance?
From: GUEST,McBride
Date: 16 Aug 01 - 01:45 PM

tanks MMario

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Cornish Floral Dance?
From: Gareth
Date: 16 Aug 01 - 02:25 PM

AAAARRRGGGHHH ! NOOOOOO !

Not an outbreak of Terry Woganisms !!

Gareth

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Cornish Floral Dance?
From: MMario
Date: 16 Aug 01 - 02:30 PM

???

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Cornish Floral Dance?
From: Mr Red
Date: 16 Aug 01 - 03:12 PM

no it's a little "furry" thing.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Cornish Floral Dance?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 16 Aug 01 - 03:20 PM

Please, nooooo, not the Togmeister singing.....!!!

It's more than human flesh can bear!!!!!

LTS

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Cornish Floral Dance?
From: MMario
Date: 16 Aug 01 - 03:23 PM

I hate it when we get divided by a common language

What the bl**dy h*ll are you people talking about?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Cornish Floral Dance?
From: vindelis
Date: 16 Aug 01 - 03:30 PM

The 'Togmeister' is the man who makes early morning radio bearable. (I'm a TOG), cause I'm not young enough to be a TYG.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Cornish Floral Dance?
From: Susanne (skw)
Date: 16 Aug 01 - 03:38 PM

Gareth, behave yourself! You're frightening the horses! :-)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Cornish Floral Dance?
From: Gareth
Date: 16 Aug 01 - 04:26 PM

Mmario

Sorry - speciffically over 40's UK joke.

Once upon a time, an early morningish BBC DJ used to banish sleep and sanity by his own rendering of the Fluury (Floral ) Dance. I still shudder at the thought of it.

Gareth

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Cornish Floral Dance?
From: MMario
Date: 16 Aug 01 - 04:30 PM

okay - I was beginning to suspect something of the sort.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Cornish Floral Dance?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 16 Aug 01 - 08:01 PM

Be afraid, be very afraid.

It actually became the No 1 best selling record.... aaarrrgghhh!!

So relieved that I don't actually have a copy in amongst the Abba and Captain Beaky stuff....

LTS

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Cornish Floral Dance?
From: GUEST
Date: 17 Aug 01 - 07:57 PM

Uz ere from down Helston parts do reckon the old 'floral' wuz handsome 'til the 'woggan' clutched old of em. Try Goin up Camborne Hill - tis what us sings on dark an stormy nights in Moushole.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Cornish Floral Dance?
From: Kernow John
Date: 18 Aug 01 - 05:24 PM

The words given are those sung by Terry Wogan to the tune used for the Flora or Furry dance. As far as I am aware there is no Cornish Floral dance.
Sorry to be pedantic but we aren't to keen on what Terry's done wiv our tune!
If you'd like a good song about Flora day then go to www.folksession.co.uk and under songs you'll find "Home for Flora."
Spot the Mudcat T shirt.
KJ

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Cornish Floral Dance?
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 19 Aug 01 - 01:02 PM

Cool site, KJ! Who is that with the shirt? The songs list is fun- brings back memories for me of Padstow, 1978.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Cornish Floral Dance?
From: Kernow John
Date: 19 Aug 01 - 03:01 PM

Animaterra
I have to admit that the old guy in the shirt is me and the lady on the accordion is my good wife Marion.
Glad to hear you have fond memories from Padstow, we'll be nearby next weekend at the Wadebridge festival.
It's been fun making the site and I hope it will grow. I'm going to ask Max if it's ok to put on a Mudcat link.
KJ

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Cornish Floral Dance?
From: Drumshanty
Date: 19 Aug 01 - 05:35 PM

Kernow John

Thanks for the link to the song. I lived in Helston for most of my teens and took part in Flora day every year, mostly as a maiden of the forest in the Hal an Tow - a very long time ago! It is almost eighteen years since I left Helston but I still find myself wallowing in nostalgia every 8 May.

Tracy

PS - nice site!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Cornish Floral Dance?
From: Mr Red
Date: 19 Aug 01 - 05:46 PM

correct pronunciation for Mousehole anyone
Yes Yes I do (think) I know but "non parlez kernak" so I might be wrong.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Cornish Floral Dance?
From: vindelis
Date: 19 Aug 01 - 06:45 PM

Mouzul - with the emphasis on 'Mou' - (pronounced as in mouse).

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Cornish Floral Dance?
From: GUEST,Gerald
Date: 19 Aug 01 - 08:26 PM

Mousehole is said as 'mouwzall' down here. Is called so for the tiny harbour entrance which can us just get a boat through. There is a children's book called 'The Mousehole Cat' is worth a read to young folk. The lights here each Christmas are famous. All the buildings on the front and the boats in the harbour are lit up like Christmas Trees - folk come from far to see this. Bests Gerald

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Cornish Floral Dance?
From: GUEST,C. N. Alberga
Date: 29 Jul 04 - 09:06 PM

Only three years late -- is this a record for reviving threads?

The song in question is NOT the Furry day dance, but a composition by one Katie Moss, see this site (I haven't read the book myself):

http://www.an-daras.com/m_bibliography_a.htm
An Daras | Bibliography

A notated version, using NWC, is here:

http://www.vpmag.com/nwc/ethnic.html
Ethnic / Folk / World Music

I know, I know, it's listed under "English", but this will get you to the site where you can download the free player for NoteWorthy files -- worth every penny. After you've grabbed the file, go to "Home" and follow the link (on the right, under "NWC Information".

BTW, the above site is cooperatively maintained by NWC users, and is not supported by the program's authors (though they are most helpful).

C. Alberga

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Cornish Floral Dance?
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 29 Jul 04 - 09:27 PM

See also the other discussions listed at the top of this page for more information on Ms Moss and her popular song based partly on traditional material. This is a redundant thread started a few years ago by someone who presumably didn't know how to use the onsite search engine (and who seems in any case never to have returned). I expect that's why the discussion died young.