Delyow Syvy / Ple`Th Esough Why Ow Mos / Strawberry Leaves
/ where are you going my pretty maid / my pretty maid /
Words Cornish,
English
REFERENCES
Gwavas MSS, British Museum MSS 28554 (p135), Signed by Edwin Chirgwen - syllables spaced out for singing, Dated 1698
Baring Gould, With H Fleetwood, Taken down from James Olver, Tanner of Launceston
Pryce , Cornish Glossary, From Gwavas
R Morton Nance, Old Cornwall Summer 1947, Quotes Chirgwens song with an adaption into unified Cornish
Inglis Gundry, Canow Kernow, Soundpost Publications, 1966 (see Bibliography) p28, Edwin Chirgwens Words to James Olvers music.
