Re: Starrygazy Pie. (was Re: There was I)


"a l l y" <ally@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> 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?
>
> ally


Wonderful.love to hear it in dialect.


Rex.


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