Wheal Rodney

DESCRIPTION: "Now I and Capp'n Franky Got up to go to Bal; We started for Wheal Rodney, Where there was work for all. Oh! a-mining we will go, high-o!" They ask about pay. The "knockers" (mine spirits) lead them to a good lode
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1925 (Old Cornwall #2)
KEYWORDS: mining money work
FOUND IN: Britain(England(West))
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Gundry-CanowKernow-SongsDancesFromCornwall, p. 55, "Wheal Rodney" (1 text, tune referenced)
ADDITIONAL: Tony Deane and Tony Shaw _The Folklore of Cornwall_, B. T. Batsford, 1975, p. 68, "(Now we had luck at last, boys, the knockers showed us where" (1 excerpt)
Roud #3316
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Trelawny" (tune)
NOTES [33 words]: Knockers, according to Deane/Shaw, were small semi-human creatures said to inhabit the Cornish mines; there were several stories of their origin, but in many ways they sound similar to Brownies. - RBW
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