Annotation:Distyll y Drain

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DISTYLL Y DRAIN (The Decay of the Thorns). AKA - "Trickling of the Thorns (The)." AKA and see "Goblins of the Lake (The)." Welsh, Air (3/8 time). B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The air is employed for the song "Goblins of the Lake (The)" in Rowlands' Cambrian Minstrelsie, with words in English and Welsh by "Professor Rowlands."

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Jones (Musical, Poetical, and Historical Relicks of the Welsh Bards, vol. 2), 1802; p. 109. Jones (The Bardic Museum), 1810; p. 109. Rowlands (Cambrian Minstrelsie), ; pp. 29-30.

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