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The song contains the line Why forty thousand Cornish boys shall knawa the reason why. [1] According to Cornish historian Robert Morton Nance, it was possibly the inspiration for R. S. Hawker's "The Song of the Western Men" which was written in 1824 and contains a strikingly similar line: Here's twenty thousand Cornish men will know the reason why!
Other popular Cornish anthems are "Hail to the Homeland" and Cornwall My Home by Harry Glasson written in 1997. Sabine Baring-Gould compiled Songs of the West, which contains folk songs from Devon and Cornwall, in collaboration with Henry Fleetwood Sheppard and F. W. Bussell.
"The Song of the Western Men", also known as "Trelawny", is a Cornish patriotic song, composed by Louisa T. Clare for lyrics by Robert Stephen Hawker. The poem was first published anonymously in The Royal Devonport Telegraph and Plymouth Chronicle in September 1826, over 100 years after the events.
Traditional songs of Cornwall, in the United Kingdom. Pages in category "Cornish folk songs" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total.
Surprise! Harry Styles just dropped a new music video for “Satellite,” the eleventh track from his 2022 studio album Harry’s House, and we’re simply over the moon (pun very intended).The ...
Styles performing in Nashville, Tennessee as part of Harry Styles: Live on Tour in 2018. English singer-songwriter Harry Styles has written tracks on all three of his studio albums — Harry Styles (2017), Fine Line (2019) and Harry’s House (2022) — and for an assortment of other artists. He has majority of shares in most of his songwriting credits. After co-writing several songs on the ...
Lamorna (Roud 16636) is a traditional folk song/ballad associated with Cornwall, and dealing with the courtship of a man and a woman, who turned out to be his wife. The title comes from Lamorna, a village in west Cornwall. [1] Sheet music held in the British Library dates the song to 1910. [2]
Hail to the Homeland is one of the unofficial anthems of Cornwall, in the south west of the UK. It was composed by the Cornish musician Kenneth Pelmear who composed and arranged many works for church and male voice choirs and brass bands. The words were written by Pearce Gilbert in 1959. [1] Other Cornish 'anthems' are Trelawny and Bro Goth ...