Cutting Down the Pines
Traditional
- Lyrics written by
- Thomas Parry, [Traditional]
- Originally written by
- [Traditional]
- Publication date
- 1949
- Language
- Welsh
- Adapted from
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The Knickerbocker Line written by [Traditional]
- Comments
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In English: The Little Tinker Boy. This Welsh version was collected by Ifan O. Williams of the BBC from an old man in Penmaenmawr, who had learned it at school. The verses describe a tinker lad travelling across the countryside from house to house repairing metal objects and sharpening knives. However, what in Welsh is a nonsense chorus is phonetically a garbled mishearing by a non-English speaker of key phrases from the chorus of The Knickerbocker Line or possibly The Dogger Bank.
The publication date above refers to "Wyth Gân Werin (Eight Folk Songs)" by Enid Parry in which two verses are traditional and two additional verses are credited to Thomas Parry. - Licensing
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