View source for Annotation:Naw Map Harth

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|f_annotation='''NAW MAP HARTH''' (Nine Brave Boys). &nbsp; AKA - "Flowers in the Valley." &nbsp; &nbsp;England, Song Air (whole time). &nbsp;England, Cornwall. D Mixolydian or D Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. &nbsp;The tune song was reconstructed by Cornish musician Merv Davey from fragments found in folklorist Cecil Sharp's manuscripts (MSS 217). The English translation of the Cornish words begins:
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''There was a widow all forlorn;''<br>
''Nine brave boys from her body were born;''<br>
''Flowers that were in the valley;''<br>
''The harp, the lute, the fife, and the cymbal;''<br>
''Sweet goes the treble violin;''<br>
''Flowers that were in the valley.''<br>
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|f_source_for_notated_version=Cecil Sharp was sent the song from William Gilbert who noted it from Thomas
Williams of St Mawgan in Pydar. Davey notes that Baring-Gould also had the song "Mr Old of St Mawgan and a Mary Gilbert who had apparently learned it from Thomas Williams before he died in 1881."
|f_printed_sources=Merv Davey ('''Hengan'''), 1983; p. 41. &nbsp;'''Racca 2''', 1997; No. 161.&nbsp;
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