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|f_annotation='''WEMBALO.''' English, Air (2/4 time). England, Cornwall. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. The song air "Wembalo" was contributed to the journal Old Cornwall in 1942 by Mr. C.C. James of Gwennap, who remarked: | |f_annotation='''WEMBALO.''' English, Air (2/4 time). England, Cornwall. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. The song air "Wembalo" was contributed to the journal Old Cornwall in 1942 by Mr. C.C. James of Gwennap, who remarked: | ||
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''The above, which I have never heard outside of Gwennap, is a variant of a familiar folk song,'' | |||
The above, which I have never | ''with a changed refrain and another tune. The refrain has here become pure nonsense, but the'' | ||
''suggestion made by one of the better know versions is that it may have represented the calling'' | |||
''of the horses by name in driving them'' | |||
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‘With my whim wham waddle ho! Strim stram straddle ho! Bubble Ho! Pretty boy, over the brow.’ | |||
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A non-Cornish refrain more like the above has the words ‘blowsey boys buble oh, under the broom.” | |||
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|f_source_for_notated_version=Mr. C.C. James of Gwennap ('''Old Cornwall'''). | |f_source_for_notated_version=Mr. C.C. James of Gwennap ('''Old Cornwall'''). | ||
|f_printed_sources=Davies ('''Hengen'''), 1983; p, 29. Old''' Cornwall''' (1942). | |f_printed_sources=Davies ('''Hengen'''), 1983; p, 29. Old''' Cornwall''' (1942). | ||
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