FTX-217 - 'WAY DOWN TO LAMORNA

Songs of SCILLY & CORNWALL

11 songs from the Scilly Isles sung by 3 members of the St Mary's lifeboat crew: Bill Cameron, Senior & Junior, and Clifford Jenkins. 11 more songs from the south coast of West Cornwall by the Matthew Brothers, 4 variations of a carol WHILE SHEPHERDS WATCHED and further songs from the north coast, from Morvah and Pendeen.

1. THE SAILOR'S ALPHABET sung by Clifford Jenkins with John Thomas (accordion) & chorus, St Mary's, Scilly - 4'19"

2. MISTER PLIMSOLL Bill Cameron Senior (talk before) - 1'35"

3. THE TITANIC Bill Cameron Senior with John Thomas (acc) (talk after about gipsy Richards selling song-sheet) - 2'18"

4. THE WRECK OF THE DELAWARE (poem by Robert Maybe recited) Clifford Jenkins (talk before about the wrecked steamer/ talk after about Ernest Guy, shanties on the wireless and how they should be sung) - 2'20"

5. THE BOLD PRINCESS ROYAL Bill Cameron Junior (talk after about learning song from Capt Stee) - 2'38"

6. THE GOLDEN VANITY Bill Cameron Senior (talk before about learning it from Jack Pearce) (talk after) - 1'05"

7. OLD BOB RIDLEY-O; COME, MY LOVE, COME (2 Minstrel Songs) Bill Cameron Senior (talk between about how he could sing 30 songs right now) - 1'49"

8. THE CAMPANERO Bill Cameron Junior (talk before about learning song from Bill Barber) - 0'59"

9. JOE MUGGINS Bill Cameron Senior with chorus - 2'05"

10. THE POOR SAILOR BOY Bill Cameron Senior with chorus (talk after about learning from Stephen Sedgemoor, talk about lifeboat, where he has travelled, what he thinks of Scilly and people who live too long) - 4'28"

11. THE BLACK VELVET BAND Bill Cameron Senior with John Thomas (acc) & chorus (talk before about learning song from Tommy Crocker) - 3'27"

12. AWAY DOWN TO LAMORNA sung by The Matthew Brothers rec Logan Rock - 2'56"

13. WANDERING DOWN as previous - 2'33"

14. RESPLENDENT BEAUTY John Chappell & company, Logan Rock - 2'39"

15. ANY OLD THING WILL DO Matthews brothers - 1'51"

16. WHILE SHEPHERDS WATCHED (Carol - 4 versions) John Chappell & company - 3'15"

17. RING ON YE BELLS John Chappell & company - 1'21"

18. LO, THE EASTERN SAGES RISE Chorus at Pendeen Public House - 1'48"

19. THE OLD GREY DUCK whole company in G followed by a singing quartet in A - 4'55"

20. OLD KING COLE John Thomas, Pendeen (with talk) - 1'33"

21. THE MINER'S SONG John Casley, Morvah (talk before about the "Ducks Craw" chapel) - 2'01"

22. THE TREE ON THE HILL John Casley accompanying himself on the church organ (talk after about song, his father & himself) - 4'30"

Recorded by Peter Kennedy, November 1956. Edited by Peter Kennedy and first published on Folktrax cassettes 1980.