Estren / Emigrants Song / The Stranger
Words English Cornish
REFERENCES
Baring Gould
Songs and Ballads of the West CLXXXVI
Folk Songs of the West Vol III p 1
Folk Songs of the Westcountry (ed Hitchcock) p 34
Taken down from Mary Treese aged 88 , Menheniot by FWB April 1891
Merv Davey
Hengan, Dyllansow Truran, Redruth, 1983, (see bibliography). p47
Racca 2, Calstock, 1997 (see Bibliography) no 138
Such
Broadsides no 142
Catnach
Broadsides - Vaughan Williams library MPS 60 (31)
Karpeles M
Sharp Collection - Maude Karpeles Vol 2 p 576
NOTES
Broadsides suggest that the emigrant is dissuaded whereas in Cornwall the man is trying to find a wife to take back with him. (Merv Davey)
Cornish Words: Merv Davey Hengan.
