We were honoured to be asked to sing for Visit Cornwall and with musically talented Harry Glasson's song "Harry's song for Cornwall", plus the video wizardry of Soundview Media we're not sure there's a better way to show case Cornwall.
This song started to be loved during my later teens I think. It was brand new of course, I remember a middle class ENGLISH teacher stating how nice and positive it was compared to Trelawney. It made her feel better being English of course. And those women worked down the mines. Those women worked scrubbing floors, baking bread ( from Tabernacle Street in Truro, to sell to others in the 1940s) those women were the people who cooked, baked, scrubbed, ironed clothes to get money, made hooks from tin and sold them, mined themselves. I hate that you have ignored half of my ancestors and treated them like they must be ignored, because they are women?
Oh those mighty men. Women, of course, earnt no money, just were slaves then really? Bearing children, caring for animals, veg and children. Oh, they did though didn't they, like grandmother, she baked bread at 5am every day in Tabernacle Street Truro, that her kids took and sold to the local baker, she scrubbed floors and mended clothes. I am proud to be a Cornish WOMAN.
Every single Cornish person I know and I am related to by birth ( I only have one Welsh great great grandfather = all others Cornish) do not speak Cornish, nor ever 'av. Of course they know and use the odd Cornish word or three.
