Starrygazy Pie. (was Re: There was I)

Ha! Found it! (From 'Cornish Dialect and Folk Songs')

TOM BAW***'S EVE
A merry plaace, you may believe,
was Mouzel 'pon Tom Baw***'s eve.
To be there then who wudn' wesh,
To sup o' sibm soorts o' fesh!
When morgy brath had clear'd the path,
comed lances for a fry,
and then us had a bit o' scad,
an' starry-gazy pie!

Next comed fair maids
bra' thusty jaades
as maade our oozles dry,
an' ling an' haake,
enough to maake
a raunin' shark to sigh!

As aich we'd clunk
A's health were drunk
in bumpers bremmen high,
An' when up caame
Tom Baw***'s naame
We prais'd 'un to the sky!

Hmm. It's in Cornish dialect. Apparently there are 7 sorts of fish mentioned
though: um...
morgy brath= dogfish
lances= sand eels
scad = horse mackerel
This is worse than Cumbrian dialect. Should I cross-post to a Cornish
newsgroup and ask for a translation, d'you think?

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