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I posted to youtube.com
The Truro Agericultural Show
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aC7vceb0XcE&feature=youtube_gdata
October 10 2010, 10:20am | Comments »
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I posted to andyrobertsmusic.blogspot.com
Truro Agricultural Show
http://andyrobertsmusic.blogspot.com/2010/03/truro-agricultural-show.html
My version of "The Truro Agricultural Show", a traditional Cornish folk song, with a knocked about archtop guitar at Havering Folk Club last night, Wednesday 24th March 2010. Interestingly four seperate people made enquiries to me about the origins of the song, having some sort of Cornish connections.The lyrics are published earlier on the Andy Roberts music blog somewhere down there...
March 25 2010, 8:11am | Comments »
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I posted to andyrobertsmusic.blogspot.com
Quiet Wednesday at Havering Folk Club
http://andyrobertsmusic.blogspot.com/2009/03/quiet-wednesday-at-havering-folk-club.html
It was a quiet Wednesday evening this week at Havering Folk Club. I think some of the regulars were absent through illness, or else there was a secret party going on somewhere else! So it was nice to be able to have some quite songs performed and time for most people to do a turn in the second set as well. Three banjos but no ukuleles, as it happens. I played two songs I haven't done at Havering before, Cat Steven's Wilid World and Steve Tilston's One Man Band. Then another version of the Truro Agericultural Show
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March 20 2009, 7:31am | Comments »
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I posted to andyrobertsmusic.blogspot.com
The Truro Agricultural Show (Agericultural)
http://andyrobertsmusic.blogspot.com/2009/01/truro-agricultural-show-agericultural.html
The Bath and West of England Show visited Cornwall in 1861. The Royal Cornwall Show was merged with it and the combined event held at Truro. This must have been a HUGE event and the song seems to have been written as a kind of way to get the news out and gather in the crowds. A Nineteenth century equivalent to the youtube viral video. The Truro Agericultural ShowGood people all who hear my voice, you now have reason to rejoice;For off to Truro you may go, to see the Agricultural Show;But don't go kissing the girls you know, at Truro Agericultural Show.A motley crew you will see there, fat farmers and their wives so rareTheir bounc'n daughters neat & clean, wi' a porkpie hat &a;crinolineSo don't go kissing the girls you know at Truro Agericultural Show.From Newlyn east and Saint Columb too, there's Humpback'd Jimand Carroty Joe; and a special train upon the rail,to bring all the thieves from Bodmin Gaol.So don't go kissing the girls you know at Truro Agericultural Show.They've got a band from Plymouth down, the best that ever was in the town; And all the gentry will be there -'tis most as pretty as Whitsun Fair!But don't go kissing the girls you know at Truro Agericultural Show.There's horses, ponies, cows and calves, for Truro don't do things by halves - there be Devon bulls, sheep, pigs, and geese;You can see it all for a shilling a piece!But don't go kissing the girls you know, at Truro Agericultural Show!There's things up there that'll make you laugh,there's a two-legg'd cow and a nine-legg'd calf;A billiy-goat that comes from Wales, with 16 eyes & 17 tails.So don't go kissing the girls you know, at Truro Agericultural Show!Now all around I hear you say, "we'll see that show this very day..So off we go, all in a row, to Truro Agericultural Show!"And don't go kissing the girls you know, at Truro Agericultural Show
January 16 2009, 2:51am | Comments »
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