Search billions of records on Ancestry.com
   

     

 

       

 

 

 

 Let's sing     

 

CORNISH AUSTRALIAN by Ian Gendall

 

I’ve a notion you don’t know me

As well as you might say,

Though I’m found all through the country

From Tasman to Shark Bay.

I’m a true Australian Cornishman,

And I want you all to know,

It’s good to think your Australian

While yet your Cornish too.

 

(Chorus)

With me pack on me back  

Me pasty in me hand,

I’m just a Cousin Jack

A roamin’ through the land

And I hope you’ll agree

It’s a fine thing to be

Cornish Australian just like me  

 

 

(Chorus)

Now some their land forsaking

Have come from overseas

New homes and friends are making

They’re quickly at their ease

And some though in the dust and sun

Have grown there they were bred

And glad to be Australian

Though they have Cornish blood

 

(Chorus)

So I’m proud to be Australian

And Cornish all in one

And I’m glad I’ve not forgotten

From where and who I am

For the pasties filled with meat and spuds

There’s a cool beer by my side

And I’m glad I’m pure Australian

And a Cousin Jack beside

 (Chorus)

 

MEBYON KERNOW Y’N SOTH

 

Mebyon Kernow y’n Soth

We sing out loud because

We’re Mebyon Kernow y’n Soth

Beneath the Southern Cross

 

We’re the Southern Sons…. of Cornwall

Australia… is where we live

We come together ‘One and All’

For our Cornish heritage

 

Mebyon Kernow y’n Soth

We sing out loud because

We’re Mebyon Kernow y’n Soth

Beneath the Southern Cross

 

 

                                                                                            TRELAWNEY                                                                                       

 

A good sword and a trusty hand, A merry heart and true!

King James's men will understand what Cornish lads can do.

And have they fixed the where and when? And shall Trelawney die?

Here's twenty thousand Cornishmen will know the reason why!

 

(Chorus)

 

And shall Trelawney live? Or shall Trelawney die?

Here's twenty thousand Cornishmen will know the reason why!

 

Out spake their captain brave and bold, A merry wight was he,

If London's Tow'r were Michael's hold, we'd set Trelawney 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?

 

(Chorus)

 

  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;

Trelawney he's in keep and hold, Trelawney he may die,

But here's twenty thousand Cornish bold will know the reason why!

 

(Chorus)