Ballad of Tom Bawcock help!

[Mal]

Hi guys,

Does anyone have the full text of the Ballad of Tom Bawcock?

I would like to do something "Cornish" for the school where I work and I can only just about remember the first verse... I would also like to show the Italians that we don't just eat egg and chips all the time.... LOL!!!!

An' oo' was there 'oo wouldn't wesh to sup upon sebn sort a' fesh?

[Cornish Terrier]

HI Malcolm - try this link for a start.

It gives four verses anyway and I presume is what you want.

Also has the music attached.

www.an-daras.com/music/m_dialect_tombawcockeve.htm

If you do a Google Search using 'ballad of tom bawcock' or simply 'tom bawcock' you will find a few references.

I will keep looking around to see if I can find anything else.

CT

[Cornish Terrier]

Malcolm - try this one too - there is even a link you can click on to here the song as well as two variations of the recipe.

(I have a couple of variations myself in old Cornish Recipe books).

www.kernowcottages.co.uk/mousehole/lights.php

CT

[Deleted]

Hi Malcolm

Being a lad at heart I like the tune "Lamorna". I can just imagine being out on the town with the maidens to find out that the one you have taken a fancy to is actually your wife Also never knew that the Cornish word for a girlfriend was "donah"

Wouldn't happen in the real world - would it??

Lannanta