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Sweet Nightingale, also known as Down in those valleys below, is a Cornish folk song.The Roud number is 371. [1]According to Robert Bell, who published it in his 1846 Ancient Poems, Ballads and Songs of the Peasantry of England, the song "may be confidently assigned to the seventeenth century, [and] is said to be a translation from the Cornish language.
The narrator sees a beautiful young woman walking with a soldier, often a grenadier. They walk on together to the side of a stream, and sit down to hear the nightingale sing. The grenadier puts his arm around the young woman's waist and takes a fiddle out of his knapsack. He plays the young woman a tune, and she remarks on the nightingale's song:
This is a list of songs by their Roud Folk Song Index number; ... 356. "The Sweet Nightingale" 357. "Old Humphrey Hodge", "Rock the Cradle John" 358.
Pages in category "Songs based on Cinderella" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total. ... Sing, Sweet Nightingale; So This Is Love (Cinderella ...
The Song of the Western Men; Sweet Nightingale; W. The White Rose (song) This page was last edited on 8 June 2019, at 18:03 (UTC). Text is ... Cornish folk songs.
The album opened with cover versions of the songs from the film including Linda Ronstadt singing "A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes" in English and Spanish, Take 6 singing "The Work Song", James Ingram singing "So This Is Love", David Benoit and David Sanborn performing a jazz medley from the film, and Bobby McFerrin's take on "Bibbidi-Bobbidi ...
The original 'Late' Cornish version of "Delyow Syvy" can be found in both Inglis Gundry's 1966 Canow Kernow: Songs and Dances from Cornwall and in Peter Kennedy's 1997 Folksongs of Britain and Ireland. It has been suggested that the song is a Cornish version of the song "Sweet Nightingale". [2]
"The Nightingale" – Irish version of a song dating from the 17th century (Laws P13), recorded by Liam Clancy [69] "Noreen Bawn" – a song, written and composed by Neil McBride from Creeslough, Donegal that was made famous by Bridie Gallagher and Ann Breen, recorded by Daniel O'Donnell. [70]