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Cornish Song Book Part 1

Ralph Dunstan: Cornish Song Book Part 1

Ralph Dunstan,
Cornish Song Book Part 1.
Lyver Canow Kernewek.
London: Reid Bros Ltd., 1929
Padstow: Lodenek Press, 1974

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The Songs

The songs are referenced by page numbers.

  1. Bro Goth Agan Tasow (Land of My Fathers)
  2. Can Kerth Tus Kernow Goth (Old Cornwall March)
  3. Arta Ef a-Dhe
  4. Dynergh dhe Dus a Vreten Vyghan (Welcome to the Bretons)
  5. Kernow agan Mam-vro (A Cornish National Anthem)
  6. Yeghers da dhe'n Myghtern! (Here’s Good Health to the King!)
  7. Trelawny I
  8. Trelawny: Can Tus an Houlsedhas
  9. Trelawny II (Roud 3315)
  10. Trelawny III
  11. One and All (I)
  12. One and All (II)
  13. John Dory (Roud 249; Child 284)
  14. An arrangement for Union Singing

Padstow Hobby-Horse Songs

  1. Hobby-Horse Songs: The Morning Song (Roud 305)
  2. Hobby-Horse Songs: The Day Song
  3. A Four-Part Setting of an Older Form of the Day Song (Roud 305)
  1. John Sturtridge and the Piskies
  2. The Hal-an-Tow (Roud 1520)
  3. The Helston Furry, Flurry, Flora or Paddy Dance (Roud 9524)
  4. The Well of St. Keyne
  5. Crying the Neck
  6. A Cornish “Grace” (Grassyans Kens es Debry Bus)
  7. The Story of Saint Just (Sequentia in honorem Sancti Justi Filii Regis Gerontii)
  8. Featherstone’s Doom
  9. A Composition by Glies Farnaby (Psalm 124)
  10. Merlin the Diviner
  11. The Pool of Pilate
  12. The Old Waits Carol (Roud 702)
  13. The Old May-Day Carol (Roud 305)
  14. Adam’s Fall (A Cornish Tale)
  15. The Farmer’s Boy (Roud 408; Laws Q30; G/D 5:960)
  16. Sweet Nightingale (Roud 371)
  17. The Barley Mow (Roud 944)
  18. Lovely Nancy (Roud 37311)
  19. Seaners’ (or Seiners’) Song
  20. As Tom Was A-Walking (Old Cornish Song) (Roud 4587)
  21. The Three Knights (Roud 26; Child 11)
  22. Morvah Fair
  23. Ann Tremellan (Roud 54; Child 84; G/D 6:1193; Henry H236)
  24. Cold Blows the Wind ToDay Sweet-Heart (Roud 51; Child 78)
  25. Byngo ( or Bingo) (Roud 589)
  26. The Jovial Begger (Roud 286; G/D 3:488)
  27. A Cornish Smuggler’s Song
  28. A Grey Day
  29. The Boats of Sennen (Cornish Fisher-Girl’s Song)

Sea-Songs and Shanties

  1. The Mermaid (Roud 124; Child 289; G/D 1:27)
  2. Boney (Roud 485)
  3. Haul Away, Joe (Roud 809)
  4. Reuben Ranzo (Roud 3282)
  5. Cornish Sailor’s Hornpipe (Miner’s Fancy)
  6. Blow the Man Down (Roud 2624)
  1. A Cornish Ox-Driver’s Song (Roud 686)

Cornish Regatta Music

  1. Starting Tune: Off She Gues
  2. Welcome Tune: Hurraw! for Pinke!
  1. The Old St. Just Cock Dance
  2. The Cornish Squire
  3. Falmouth Polka
  4. Zeak Waltz
  5. The Plough-Boy (Roud 686)
  6. Ye Maids of Helston
  7. The “Irish Lady”

Music at Sunday School Treats

  1. Sunny Corner March
  2. Frogpool March
  3. Point March
  4. No 1 Quick Step
  5. Flight March
  6. Trevince March
  1. The St. Auvyn Election Song
  2. This Pleasant Month of May

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Cornish Dialect & Folk Songs

Ralph Dunstan: Cornish Dialect & Folk Songs

Ralph Dunstan,
Cornish Dialect & Folk Songs.
A sequel to the Cornish Song Book.
London: Ascherberg, Hopwood & Crew, 1932
Padstow: Lodenek Press, 1972

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The Songs

The songs are referenced by page numbers.

  1. My Father Had a Horse (Roud 850)
  2. Old Grey Duck (Roud 3302)
  3. The Mallard (Roud 1517)
  4. The St. Keverne Fast Song
  5. Tom Bawcock’s Eve
  6. The Old “One and All”
  7. Jan Knuckey
  8. Whiskers on a Baby’s Face (Roud 114; Child 274; G/D 7:1460; Henry H21ab)
  9. Nawthen, 'cept You!
  10. Wheal Rodney (Roud 3316)
  11. Come All Ye Jolly Tinner Boy
  12. St. Gennys Fox-Hunting Song (Roud 3306)
  13. Alphabet Song (Roud 3303)
  14. Old Smuggler’s Song (Roud 3305)
  15. The New-Mown Hay
  16. Truro Agricultural Show (Roud 21219)
  17. The Crimean War 1853-6
  18. The Highwayman (Roud 490; Laws L12; G/D 2:260)
  19. The Soldier on the Battlefield (Roud 3304)
  20. “We Be” (Roud 3472)
  21. Zacky Treener and the Turnip Lantern
  22. Fray, Whither So Trippingly?
  23. The Flight of ‘Old Artful’
  24. Ould Mally Pidgey
  25. Fathom the Bowl (Roud 880)
  26. The Bold Privateer (Roud 1000; Laws O32; Henry H514)
  27. Truro Whitsun Fair
  28. Jonathan, James, and John
  29. What a Fine Hunting Day (Roud 1172)
  30. The Press Gang
  31. The Wild Rover (Roud 1173; G/D 7:1480)
  32. The Jolly Shilling (Roud 1116)
  33. Betsy Walton (Roud 1493; G/D 6:1160; TYG 74)
  34. Maggie May (Roud 5383)
  35. The Ringers of Egloshayle (Roud 1163)
  36. Old Daddy Fox (Roud 131; G/D 3:499; Henry H38)
  37. The Parson Outwitted