FTX-218 - THE CLUSTER OF NUTS
SONGS FROM CORNWALL -2-
Featuring Joe Thomas of Constantine with 7 songs, a version of THE HOUSE THAT
JACK BUILT & talks about his father receiving the kings shilling from a
recruiting gang, followed by 4 glee-style songs from fishermen in the Cadgwith
Hotel. Then there's "Old Jan" Thomas of Camborne with CAMBORNE HILL, a carol
and talk about a life of singing followed by The Skinners Bottom Glee Singers
with songs & carols incl 2 in Cornish, finishing with Dunstan's FISHERMEN'S
HYMN.
1. IT RAINS, IT HAILS sung by Joe Thomas, Constantine (talk after) - 2'09"
2. THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT (Recitation: Old style & New style) (talk
before) - 4'34"
3. THE CLUSTER OF NUTS (talk before & after) - 3'11"
4. RECRUITING SONG (The Irish Recruit) (talk before & after) - 1'10"
5. THE THREE BUTCHERS (talk after) - 1'14"
6. THE CHARMING YOUNG WIDOW I MET ON THE TRAIN (talk before about his work
and travelling to Wales) - 1'46"
7. WASSAIL SONG (talk about New Years custom with bowl & story about Helford
River) - 2'23"
8. Talk: "I can remember..." about his grandmother, born 1792, and his father
accepting the king's shilling from a recruiting gang at Penryn - 2'10"
9. THE BANKS OF THE SWEET DUNDEE - 2'06"
10. THE ROBBER'S RETREAT (known locally as "The Cadgwith Anthem") sung by fishermen,
Cadgwith Hotel, Lizard - 1'46"
11. ROW, BOATMAN, ROW - 2'25"
12. THE JOLLY JOLLY ROGER (The Bold Buccaneers) - 2'27"
13. FAREWELL, MY OWN TRUE LOVE - 1'51"
14. IN CAMBORNE I WAS BORN AND BRED sung by "Old Jan" John Thomas, Camborne
(talk before) - 2'36"
15. GOING UP CAMBORNE HILL (talk bef) - 3'04"
16. AS I SAT ON A SUNNY BANK (Carol) (talk before) - 1'36"
17. IF I COULD HELP SOMEBODY (talk before about himself, his singing, his work,
his name and doing good) (talk after about singing as a boy, church & choir)
- 5'48"
18. THE HOLLY TREE CAROL ("The St Day Carol" coll by Dunstan sung in Cornish)
The Skinners Bottom Glee-singers, Redruth - 2'58"
19. JOHN THE BON (Truro's "Flora" Dance song) - 1'18"
20. THE MINER'S SONG - 2'11"
21. THE SWEET NIGHTINGALE (in Cornish) - 2'48"
22. THE FISHERMEN'S HYMN (comp by Ralph Dunstan) - 6'58"
Recorded by Peter Kennedy, November 1956. Edited by Peter Kennedy and first
published on Folktrax cassettes 1980.
