Subject: RE: Cornish Songs From: Lurcherman Date: 24 Jan 22 - 01:09 PM Hi, for those who are interested in Cornish songs it’s worth looking for the songs of Harry Glasson which includes Cornwall my Home, sung at every gathering of Cornish folk and pub session. |
Subject: RE: Cornish Songs From: GUEST Date: 22 Jan 22 - 12:15 PM Shining down on Sennen (Martyn Wyndham-Read & Iris Bishop) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUdf3qCdC8A |
Subject: RE: Cornish Songs From: GUEST,Denzil John Asche Date: 21 Jan 22 - 05:48 PM I was told it had been translated into Cornish from Breton. |
Subject: RE: Cornish Songs From: Telvis Date: 18 Sep 19 - 07:17 AM Hi Marion, Do you have the music for ‘Cornish Kitchen |
Subject: RE: Cornish Songs From: Telvis Date: 06 Sep 19 - 04:55 AM Does anyone have the tune to In a Cornish Kitchen, I believe Marion in Cornwall may have it from a post dated 14 June 04 |
Subject: RE: Corniish Kitchen From: GUEST,Terry Date: 05 Sep 19 - 04:39 AM To Marion, You posted a note to Pete on 14th June 04 saying you could put the abc of the tune if anyone’s interested, I am part of a group that meets and sings traditional Cornish songs and would very much like to get the tune Many Thanks Terry |
Subject: Recording Cornish Songs From: GUEST,Lanreath Film and Recording Studio Date: 21 Nov 11 - 12:22 PM Hi all, I'm not Cornish, but have lived in Cornwall for five years now. Sang folk all my life, and now sing Cornish folk songs and love them. Having recently retired as an International Filmmaker I now have a small and private film and recording studio at my home near Looe. Anyone wanting to record folk songs, or any other songs for that matter, check out my website and get in touch - www.lanreathstudio.co.uk |
Subject: RE: Cornish Songs From: Hawker Date: 25 Feb 11 - 10:20 AM LOVE IT!!!!! San TURDY!!!! ROFL |
Subject: RE: Cornish Songs From: Cats Date: 25 Feb 11 - 09:05 AM St Tudy not San Turdy St Mabyn Men not Saint Maybeenmen Stratton Men not Stattenmen and lastly it's Egloshayle Hope this helps |
Subject: RE: Cornish Songs From: scouse Date: 25 Feb 11 - 05:28 AM A great Cornish Song..... Egloshale Ringers. Come all you ringers good and bold,come listen to my peel, I'll tell you of five Ringers brave that lived in Egloshale, They bear the sway in any array,where ever they chance to go, Good music of melodious Bells is their delight to show. The foreman gives the signal,he steps along with toe, He casts his eye about them all and gives them sign to go, Away they pull with courage full,the heart it doth revive, To hear them swing and music bring,one,two three,four and five. Theirs Craddock the Corwainer first that rings the treble Bell, The second is John Ellery and none may him excel, The third is Thomas Carpenter,the forth is Thomas Cleave, Goodfellow is the tenorman that rings them round so brave. They went up to Lanlivery they brought away the prize, And then they went to San Turdy and there they did likewise, There's Stattenmen,Saint Maybenmen,Saint Issy and Saint Kew, But the five lads of Egloshale did all the rest outdo. Now to conclude my merry task,the Sovereigns health we'll join, Stand every man I'll pass the flask and drink his health in wine, And here's to Craddock,Ellery and here's to Thomas Cleave, To Pollack and the Tenorman that rings them round so brave. As Aye, Phil. |
Subject: RE: Cornish Songs From: GUEST,Frank Siegle Date: 25 Feb 11 - 12:16 AM Does anyone have "Three Knights" ("Tri Marghack") with Cornish lyrics. Or does anyone know where it might be attained. I have the English, but I also sing in Cornish (and the other Celtic languages) and would very much like to sing the song in Cornish. Thanks. |
Subject: RE: Cornish Songs From: John Foxen Date: 18 Oct 10 - 01:58 PM The wonderful Brenda Wootton used to sing a song about a nasty character who got his comeuppance. It had a chorus that I remember (probably badly) as: "Serve you right you wicked old man - the devil catch you if he can." Can anyone come up with the title/lyrics/tune? |
Subject: RE: Cornish Songs From: Desert Dancer Date: 18 Oct 10 - 11:10 AM There's a Wikipedia page for Brenda Wootton, with this discography: * Piper's Folk with John the Fish & Piper's Folk, (Private pressing, produced & distributed by Piper's Folk), 1968 * Pasties & Cream with John the Fish, Sentinel Records, SENS 1006, 1971 * Way Down to Lamorna, Sentinel, SENS 1056, 1972 * Crowdy Crawn with Richard Gendall, Sentinel, SENS 1016, 1973 * Pamplemousse, with Robert Bartlett, Barclay (French label), 1973 * No Song To Sing, with Robert Bartlett and "guest" Alex Atterson on piano - Sentinel, SENS 1021, 1974 * Tin In The Stream, with Robert Bartlett, Stockfisch (German label), 1974 (voted West Germany's folk album of the year) * Starry Gazey Pie, with Robert Bartlett, Sentinel, SENS 1031, 1975 * Children Singing, with Richard Gendall, Sentinel, SENS 1036, 1976 * Carillon, Transatlantic Records, TRA 360, 1979 * Boy Jan ... Cornishman, with David Penhale (voice, guitar & bouzouki) and Richard Gendall (composer), Burlington Records, BURL 005, 1980[3] * La Grande Cornouaillaise, Burlington Records, BURL 007, 1980 * Gwavas Lake, with The Four Lanes Male Choir, Burlington Records, BURL 008, 1980 * Lyonesse, RCA, PL 70299, 1982 * My Land, RCA, PL 70234, 1983 * B Comme Brenda, Disc'AZ (French label), AZ 494, 1985 * The Voice of Cornwall, Keltia Music KMCD67, 1996 ~ Becky in Tucson |
Subject: RE: Cornish Songs From: GUEST,Ian Cook Date: 17 Oct 10 - 07:10 PM @ Sue White Did the Jack Spurr who gave you the book used to run a guest house in Wadebridge? |
Subject: RE: Cornish Songs From: I don't know Date: 27 Sep 10 - 06:20 AM Just seen this thread & was pleased to see people asking about Brenda Wooton. A lovely lady who sung not only with John the Fish but with Mike Silver. I saw her with Mike in 1976 at the Applegate folk club in Castle Hedingham. Essex. Only my second folk night. My husband had been to her home in Cornwall when Jasper Carrot had been at a club night & they all went back for supper, he said Jasper never spoke a word except please & thank you & didn't even join in the sing a round. The only album we have of hers is Cornish songs of the sea. If there are others may be someone can let us know & we can maybe get copies. |
Subject: RE: Cornish Songs From: GUEST,Sue White Date: 26 Sep 10 - 12:42 PM I have just read through this thread, and have really enjoyed it all. I have used the Baring Gould Book "Songs of the West" - and another book given to me by Jack Spurr, a Cornishman from Calstock way, "Cornish Ditties" I think it was called - for years, and based many of the songs on my CD "Best of Cornish Folksongs" from material in that book. Like Phil Beer I have used song books like that to sing from, since childhood. In my childhood it was family gatherings on a Friday night, and always with guitars, whistles and lots of humour (I was born in 1953 too Phil!)- in my native county of Essex. Arscot of Tetcott was a song I found in "The Songs of the West", and which I also recorded and put on CD in the early 90s. So I did it a while before Jim C. (but a very modern take on it - not very folkie) Another source for me was the singing of the Male Voice Choirs. Those lads are a mine of information on all songs Cornish. I loved my time living in Cornwall (from 1978 until 1996) and am still trying to escape Devon and get back! |
Subject: RE: Cornish Songs From: GUEST,Sue White Date: 26 Sep 10 - 12:29 PM Sorry! Can't type on my i-phone. New website is http://sites.google.com/site/suewhitetonytaylor Regards, everyone. |
Subject: RE: Cornish Songs From: GUEST,Sue White Date: 26 Sep 10 - 11:18 AM Hi folks! I am alive and well and still singing! Lots of Cornish songs, as well as Irish and Scottish. Music available from www.kesson.com + new website, http://sites.google.com/site/suewhittonytaylor Old website:- www.cornishsinger.com |
Subject: RE: Cornish Songs From: open mike Date: 18 Dec 09 - 12:49 PM I caught this t.v. show on PBS recently. apparently filmed in 2004 it is of a Cornish choir, descendants of miners who worked the gold mines in California. Huell Howser is a t.v. reporter who has a series on california http://www.calgold.com/calgold/Default.asp?Series=Specials&Show=788 CORNISH CHRISTMAS In this holiday special, Huell celebrates the holidays with the descendants of the original Cornish Carol Choir of Grass Valley. Join them as they reenact their 1940 concert of traditional Cornish Christmas Carols, which took place 2,000 feet below ground in a gold mine, and was broadcast nationally on network radio. |
Subject: RE: Cornish Songs From: GUEST Date: 17 Dec 09 - 03:37 PM Cornish Alfabet was song by Brenda Wootton on one of her LP's lovely lady I had the pleasure of knowing sadly missed gerry |
Subject: RE: Cornish Songs From: GUEST Date: 01 Mar 09 - 10:44 AM Actually Hawker did NOT write the original: "Except for the refrain, the exact original words of the song are lost. Those given here are based on a 'restoration' written (c.1835) by the Rev. R.S. Hawker, of Whitstone, near Stratton, who died in 1875. In 1688, the Trelawney Song is said to have resounded in every house, in every highway, and in every street in Cornwall." This comes from the Cornish Song Book, 1929, along with three versions of the song, one in Cornish language written by Henry Jenner. |
Subject: RE: Cornish Songs From: GUEST,doc.tom Date: 25 Jan 09 - 07:21 AM Or even CORNISH BOLD - depends which choir! |
Subject: RE: Cornish Songs From: GUEST,frank Date: 25 Jan 09 - 07:17 AM Dear alanabit, I`m sure you are right about the reverend Walker, but the words of the song ar "Theres twenty thousand CORNISHMEN will know the reason why", I think he meant it to be a cornish song, don`t you? |
Subject: RE: Cornish Songs From: breezy Date: 09 Jan 09 - 01:36 PM there'll be a Breeze in yer face alright |
Subject: RE: Cornish Songs From: greg stephens Date: 09 Jan 09 - 12:26 PM ??? |
Subject: RE: Cornish Songs From: GUEST,Cornish Date: 09 Jan 09 - 11:48 AM I am terribly sorry to have to correct you but that would be Cornish not English |
Subject: RE: Cornish Songs From: GUEST,John from Elsie`s Band Date: 25 Nov 08 - 09:52 AM Davy Jones Guest, "Crantock Games" is one of the songs from our repertoire and I have an mp3 recording on the computer of Tony and Iris doing it. If you could tell me in words of one syllable how to do it I will willingly put it in this thread. |
Subject: RE: Cornish Songs From: Hawker Date: 23 Nov 08 - 07:29 PM Alanabit, Now I am sure you are not trying to mke ripples on the waters of fair Cornwall ;0) Yes Devonian Rev Hawker was, but I believe that a person is said to be Cornish if Born there, well if this were true for songs, the song was penned in the county of Cornwall - granted the father (writer) was a devonian, but definately a song of cornish inspiration! LOL Cheers, Lucy |
Subject: Lyr Add: PROPER JOB From: Cats Date: 23 Nov 08 - 01:18 PM Frank I have the words for you from the secretary of the choir. Proper Job Is there a land where cream is cream and where a man has time to dream? Is there a place where peace is peace and where the race for change can cease? Is there a coast where cliffs are cliffs folk never talk in buts and ifs? Can I escape this crazy stress? Hear the Cornish answer, 'Yes!' Proper job! First you cross the Tamar Proper job! Sea breeze in your face! Devon may be touchy Cornwall is a Duchy Proper job! Kernow is the place Proper job! When the Lord made Cornwall Proper job! Granite built with grace Charm in every corner Launceston to Lamorna! Proper job! Kernow is the place. Shades of miners Tough hand liners mighty man born There in Camborne Made an engine fine and fitty 'n if you must, then down in Truro town - There's a city Proper job! Take a stroll up Fore Street Proper job! Pasty in your hand Saffron sweet and spicy have a bit of nicey! Proper job! Kernow is the land. It is credited to Richards and Dearlove |
Subject: RE: Cornish Songs From: alanabit Date: 23 Nov 08 - 03:27 AM Always one to be a bit of a spoilsport, I would like to make one or two comments about "The Song of the Western Men" or "Trelawney", as it is better known. It is indeed very popular in Cornwall - especially with male voice choirs. However, although it is about events in 1688, it was not written until 1824, by Robert Hawker, whom I believe, was Devonian clergyman. It has got a great tune and a rousing chorus. Undoubtedly it has been adopted with some relish by the Cornish. Now I'm not saying it is not Cornish now, but its ethnic roots could be called into question... |
Subject: RE: Cornish Songs From: GUEST,David Jones, Guest Date: 22 Nov 08 - 10:27 PM Does anyone have the words to Crantock Games? I think it is a Cornish song. David Jones |
Subject: RE: Cornish Songs From: GUEST,dizzyLisa Date: 22 Nov 08 - 05:40 PM I've posted a video on youTube of Mike Nicholson singing Roger Bryant's beautiful Cornish Lads with Hartley Morris Men http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=BUkAxP5GysM I don't think the hyperlink works tho ! |
Subject: RE: Cornish Songs From: Cats Date: 21 Nov 08 - 11:12 PM I've e mailed the secretary for you to find out. |
Subject: RE: Cornish Songs From: GUEST,frank Date: 21 Nov 08 - 01:03 PM Can anyone help me ? I am seeking the words and music to the song "proper job", sung by the Holman Climax choir, thanks |
Subject: RE: Cornish Songs From: Crowdercref Date: 06 Sep 08 - 04:21 AM W is water the bane of the mine... oops sorry, wrong thread. |
Subject: RE: Cornish Songs From: Hawker Date: 05 Sep 08 - 07:22 PM Thank you Jo, It was a great show for us too, with such a receptive and responsive audience! We did it at Looe last night for Dehwelans (Cornish for Homecoming) and it rained and rained, we go home without having to swim, but there were some BIG puddles! Cheers, Lucy (Bal maiden!) |
Subject: RE: Cornish Songs From: GUEST,Jo W Date: 05 Sep 08 - 11:26 AM I saw the new cornwall songwriters show ' cornish lads' at Bideford and they were brilliant! |
Subject: RE: Cornish Songs From: Hawker Date: 25 Mar 08 - 08:30 PM Just spent the evening singing NEW Cornish songs - rehearsing for the NEW Cornwall songwriters show 'Cornish Lads' which goes on the road at the end of May 2008. Bookings being taken now! Click this image to find out more! Cheers, Lucy |
Subject: RE: Cornish Songs From: Leadfingers Date: 25 Mar 08 - 04:33 PM 100 ?? |
Subject: RE: Cornish Songs From: Celtaddict Date: 25 Mar 08 - 04:28 PM On our side of the Pond, Jim Wearne is still going strong, is a Bard of the Cornish Gorseth, and has a new website address Jim Wearne's Cornish Page |
Subject: RE: CORNISH SONGS From: thimblerigg Date: 25 Mar 08 - 10:16 AM Having spent several years researching the songs collected by the Rev Sabine Baring-Gould, I have followed a Cornish thread that has led me to songs that as far as I know are not shall we say in common usage at present. These are being added to a growing pile that I am convinced are unique to Cornwall. The folk site www.wovenwheatwhispers.co.uk published an article I wrote titled 'Songs Unique to Cornwall'. Since writing the aricle which was based around the songs from my CD 'By Chance it Was', I am this year starting to perform the newly found songs here in Cornwall. I am convinced there must be other sources, as Phil Beer says check out the book shops somewhere there must be some unsung gems waiting for an airing |
Subject: RE: CORNISH SONGS From: kimsky Date: 25 Mar 08 - 09:13 AM if you visit the Elowen myspace page, you'll find 2 contemporary Cornish songs - Oll an Gerriow/Noze Looan is widely played (not so widely sung) enjoy http://www.myspace.com/elowenfolk I know - shameless self-promotion! |
Subject: RE: CORNISH SONGS From: GUEST,Phil Beer Date: 25 Mar 08 - 09:00 AM The aforementioned Cornish song book, although not really containing a vast amount of 'traditional' material is still a great place to go. I was born in Devon in 1953 but my mun is a Tonkin from Falmouth and we spent a large amount of our early years in Cornwall. My family are also Methodists and very musical and we actually did used to spend time around the piano as a family singing songs from the book. I recently was in Falmouth clearing out my aged Aunts house and found her copy which is in far better condition than mine. We also took charge of the fine old broadwood upright which now resides in my sisters house for another generation of of kids to learn music on. I've just been working with Exeter singer Dave Lowrey who aslo has a great affection for the book and has recorded 'The Cornish Smuggler' from it. In conversation with Cyril Tawney before he passed away, he also indicated a similar early exposure to music in precisely same way. There are plenty of copies still to be found if you search the old bookshops. Might base an album around it one day--- |
Subject: RE: CORNISH SONGS From: GUEST,Jim Date: 25 Mar 08 - 08:32 AM I lived in Cornwall for some 7 years but, long before that, my misspent youth included regular Saturday evening visits to Cecil Sharpe House where I also heard Jack and Margaret King's rendition of "Gor Bugger Jagger". On the subject of "The Oggie Man", I have often wondered at the several interesting similarities between that song and "Die Leiermann" from "Die Winterreisse". |
Subject: RE: CORNISH SONGS From: BB Date: 28 Jan 06 - 01:14 PM Great song, even if it is 'ARscott of Tetcott', rather than 'Ascott'. Tetcott is actually just in Devon, but Whitstone, Poundstock and St. Gennys are just over the border in Cornwall. Jim Causley has recorded it, and sings it really well. (Wish we'd got there first!) There's also a song called 'The St. Gennys Hunt', although I can't remember the details just now. Barbara |
Subject: RE: CORNISH SONGS From: Lady Nancy Date: 28 Jan 06 - 07:41 AM What about "the Ascott of Tetcott" which is a hunting song wherein the fox gets his revenge.... And it mentions places like Whitstone, Poundstock, St Ghennys (apologies for spelling if wrong) Ive got the words and the tune, but am actually missing two lines.... Used to sing it in the late '70s in a harmony group. Good song. But is it the right county? Lady Nancy x |
Subject: RE: CORNISH SONGS From: breezy Date: 27 Jan 06 - 07:42 PM its the cornish in me ever had any in you? |
Subject: RE: CORNISH SONGS From: breezy Date: 27 Jan 06 - 07:34 PM Ahem Liz Simcock thank you |
Subject: RE: CORNISH SONGS From: breezy Date: 27 Jan 06 - 07:33 PM yes, and its on my 4th Volume made in 1989 along with the Tinner Boys 'So its off to Truro we must go to se the agericultural show' that one Sunday St Albans at the Comfort Hotel. Windward folk Club. main attraction the delightful Liz Somcock down boys |
Subject: RE: CORNISH SONGS From: Cats Date: 27 Jan 06 - 03:00 PM If you go to www.an-daras.com/music you will find it along with the historical background and the dots. This is a good source for cornish songs. |
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