Annotation:Pencarrow
X:1 T:Pencarrow M:3/4 L:1/8 R:Air B:Davey – Hengen (1983, p. 58) K:Ddor DD|D2A2A2|A2B2c2|B3A G2|G3A2|F3E D2| E3F G2|A3D D2|C4 AB|c3d c2|B3AB2| c3 B A2|G4 D2|A2A2A2|c3B A2|G2E2c2| E3 DC2|D3A A2|A3B c2|B2A2G2| G4 A2|F2E2D2|E2F2G2|A2d2 ^c2|d6||
PENCARROW (Deer's Head or Camp's end). English, Air (3/4 time). D Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. Baring Gould heard this tune from John Bennet of Menheniot. [ 12]It was given for the words to the 'Pencarrow Hunt' or 'Lord Arscott of Tetcott' but is different from the melodies associated with this song elsewhere. In Songs And Ballads of teh West Baring Gould provides the following notes: “The same tune is found in Wales to the words " Difurwch gwyr Dyfl " (E. Jones'Musical Relicks of the W^elsh Bards, 1794, I., p. 129). It—or rather half of the tune—was introduced by D'Urfey into his " Pills to purge Malancholy," to the words " Dear Catholic Brother " (Ed. 1719-20, Vol. VI., p. 277). From D'Urfey it passed into the "Musical Miscellany" (1731, Vol. VI., p. 171), to the words " Come, take up your Burden, ye Dogs, and away." D'Urfey was a Devonshire Man, and he probably picked up the tune when a boy in the West, and used as much of it as he wanted to set to his song. The air is much older than the age of D'Urfey ; it probabl[ y ]belongs to an early stock common to the Celts of Wales and Cornwall. A very fine variant from J. Benney, Menheniot.”[ 13]5Robert Morton Nance, Ms. box 4, Courtney Library, Royal Institute of Cornwall, River Street Truro.6Baring Gould Heritage Project/Wren Trust, Fair Copy Manuscript, page 204, song 797Dunstan, Ralph. Cornish Dialect and Folk Songs. (Truro, Cornwall: Jordan's Bookshop, 1932). P5.8Sharp, Cecil, 'Folk Song Journal' no 20 p 286-99Baring-Gould, Rev. Sabine., and Rev. H. Fleetwood Shepherd. Songs and Ballads of the West: A Collection Made from the Mouths of the People (London: Methuen & Co, 1891) p xxvii 10Baring Gould Heritage Project/Wren Trust, rough copy manuscript , Vol 2, page 28.11Allen, John, and William H. Paynter. The History of the Borough of Liskeard. (Marazion,m Wordens, 1967).12Baring Gould Heritage Project/Wren Trust, Fair copy manuscript , Page 6 Song no 2.13Baring-Gould, Rev. Sabine., and Rev. H. Fleetwood Shepherd. Songs and Ballads of the West: A Collection Made from the Mouths of the People (London: Methuen & Co, 1891) p xiii.
