Awhesyth, An / The Lark In The Morning / Pretty Ploughboy
Words English, Cornish REFERENCES
Baring Gould
Faircopy MSS in Plymouth Library
Folk Songs Of the West MSS CXLVI
Baring Gould
Folk songs And Ballads of the West p 70 + p72
2 versions taken down from Samuel Gilbert, for 52 years landlord of the Falcon Inn at Mawgan in Pydar, aged 81, 1891
Davey ,M
Hengan, Dyllansow Truran, Redruth, 1983, (see bibliography). p12, 25
NOTES
30 plus publications are known to exist which include this song
Words much the same as those collected by Baring Gould but quite different tunes.
Eg
Barrett: English Folk Songs (late 18th Century) p46
Frank Kidson collected this version in Yorkshire. Thought to have been used at one stage by Robert Burns
Also collected by Vaughan Williams in Essex
Broadside Ballad by Watta, Lane End (68)
Paul at BM12621,k4; vol 1 p 379
