Cornish Choirs

Massed Cornish Male Voice Choirs, 1000 voices in the Royal Albert Hall.

1 TRURO the tune of "Jesus shall reign where're the sun"

2 TAKE ME HOME - song of the Cornish miners

3 TRELAWNY

Trelawny is the Cornish Anthem. Bishop Jonathan Trelawny supported King James ll during the Monmouth rebellion. Once the king was safe, however, he refused to support his attempts to reintroduce Catholicism and was imprisoned but subsequently released. 100 years later the Rev Hawker wrote the following words to an old Cornish song: TRELAWNY

A good sword and a trusty hand!

A merry heart and true!

King James's men shall understand

What Cornish lads can do!

And have they fixed the where and when?

And shall Trelawny die?

Here's twenty thousand Cornish men

Will know the reason why!

Out spake their Captain brave and bold:

A merry wight was he:

'If London Tower were Michael's hold,

We'd set Trelawny free!

'We'll cross the Tamar, land to land:

The Severn is no stay:

With "one and all," and hand in hand;

And who shall bid us nay?

'And when we come to London Wall,

A pleasant sight to view,

Come forth! come forth! ye cowards all:

Here's men as good as you.

'Trelawny he's in keep and hold;

Trelawny he may die:

But here's twenty thousand Cornish bold

Will know the reason why!'

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[pedrcymro29]

The Welsh, Cornish, and Bretons are Brythonic Celts: Tribal brothers and sisters.

I didn't realise until I listened to this, how alike their singing is.

[spuds4t]

OMG! What can I say. Makes me proud to be Cornish born and bred. Magnificent. Take me home, please.

Henry T.

[kyan948]

this is going to be played at my step dads funeral.cornwall till i die.as he was

[pixiethegreat]

@TheMarrification bleddy 'ell what a sound, currently relaxing in Japan but damn, can't wait to get home!!

[TheMarrification]

Listen to it from 06:17; The Cornish Celts have well and truely spoken! Simple as

[TheMarrification]

MAGNIFICENT! It made the hairs on my arm stand on end, thank you!

[segano1]

Kernow Bys Vykin

[PhilsGirl100]

I had the fantastic priviledge of going to this concert in the Royal Albert Hall & was sat right under * beside the edge of these 1000 fantastic voiced men, & knew some of them. The hairs on the back of my neck stood up on end when they all sang. I was there with my Mother, taking the place of my dear Stepdad who had booked this up for them a year before but very sadly died about 3 months before. An emotional evening. Just wished my Stepdad could have been there, though am sure he was in spirit.

[FlyingnBadger]

My father who was champion baritone in 1948 ( I think it was 48 it might have been 47, I might be wrong) sang with the 1000 voices in The Polperro Fishermens Choir...Melville Brock