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Cornish Girls / Mowysy Kernow



Cornish Girls / Mowysy Kernow 

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REFERENCES
Inglis Gundry
Canow Kernow, Soundpost Publications, 1966 (see Bibliography) p49

NOTES
Communicated by Arthur Pascoe St Neot presumably circa 1966 ( Date of Publication of Canow Kernow, Soundpost Publications, 1966 (see Bibliography)) "who remembered it ‘ commonly sung in the Village Inn at St Neot 70 years ago by the Patrons, mostly miners and farm labourers." V1 Come take a walk thro Cornwall and there you will find,

The Sweetest and the Neatest girls, the best of Woman kind,

V2Success to all you Cornish Girls all modest neat and true

There are no girls in England to compare with you

Chorus   They’re comely in their features and decent to their taste

Modest in behaviour and slender in the Waist

(Canow Kernow, Soundpost Publications, 1966 (see Bibliography) click here to play the midi file click here for the noteworthy file