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Lamorna (Roud 16636) is a traditional folk song/ballad associated with Cornwall, and dealing with the courtship of a man and a woman, who turned out to be his wife. The title comes from Lamorna , a village in west Cornwall. [ 1 ]
"Pomona" is a folksong originating from Manchester.It has many similarities with a song called Lamorna, which is popular in Cornwall. "Pomona" refers to the Pomona Gardens (named after the Roman goddess Pomona) which were in Cornbrook, Hulme; the site was later used to build Pomona Docks.
Her repertoire over the years covered folk, rock, blues, jazz and even hymns, but she is best remembered for her Cornish "standards" such as Lamorna, The White Rose, Camborne Hill, The Stratton Carol and the ballads Mordonnow, Tamar, [11] Silver Net [12] and Lyonesse, [13] those last three all written by Richard Gendall.
Lamorna (Cornish: Nansmornow) is a village, valley and cove in west Cornwall, England, UK. It is on the Penwith peninsula approximately 4 miles (6 km) south of Penzance . Lamorna became popular with the artists of the Newlyn School , including Alfred Munnings , Laura Knight and Harold Knight , and is also known for former residents Derek and ...
Folk songs include "Sweet Nightingale", "Little Eyes", and "Lamorna". [6] Few traditional Cornish lyrics survived the decline of the language. In some cases lyrics of common English songs became attached to older Cornish tunes. Some folk tunes have Cornish lyrics written since the language revival of the 1920s.
NEW YORK − Young musicians don't make love songs like they used to. At least that's what Nathan Morris, one-third of Boyz II Men, tells me. He's sitting backstage squeezing in a quick dinner ...
Although sounding like traditional English folk songs, some of their material was in fact composed by Jones, such as "The Ellan Vannin Tragedy" and "The Marco Polo". One of their best known songs, particularly in their native Liverpool, was in "My Liverpool Home", written by Peter McGovern in 1962. Cliff Hall also introduced traditional ...
Decades later, in 2021, Morrison’s sister, Anne Morrison Chewning, released a collection of Morrison’s writing, poems and unreleased songs in the book The Collected Works of Jim Morrison. The ...