Hey, anyone enjoy some West Country/Cornish folk songs? I remember quite a few years ago I was watching a film, and they had a song at the end called "Uncle Tom Cobley," and I instantly fell in love with it as it sounded like the most interesting song I’d ever heard. I had no idea at the time it was a Devon folk song until I looked it up on YouTube, and afterwards, I learned nearly all the lyrics and still sing along to it now, along with a few others. I’ll put the lyrics to one Devon folk song and another Cornish one I enjoy.
"Tom Pearce, Tom Pearce, lend me your grey mare,
All along, down along, out along, lee,
For I want for to go to Widecombe Fair,
With Bill Brewer, Jan Stewer, Peter Gurney,
Peter Davy, Dan'l Whiddon, Harry Hawke,
Old Uncle Tom Cobley and all,
Old Uncle Tom Cobley and all”
“So now I'll sing to you about a maiden fair,
I met the other evening at the corner of the square.
She had a dark and roving eye; she was a charming rover,
And we rode all night through the pale moonlight
away down to Lamorna” |
