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Koyt Tredhewi - Cornwall - Burial Stones

from My Mother's Country by Gavin O'Loghlen & Cotters Bequest

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Koyt Tredhewi comes from the Cornish language meaning David’s Settlement. It is a burial tomb dating from neolithic times. The song is sung in the Cornish language.

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KOYT TREDHEWI
(Cornish language)

Golow dres an nos
mernans rag
mynysenn verr
tanyow war’n
brenn an taran
an tabour

Geryow
a hanas
kepar ha
mog adro
tan myttin
towlow parys
ynta rag an
vyaj dhe dhos

Bedhow a with
an eskern
a syns an bywnans
a dhifres an golow
meyn kepar ha
lagasow an marow
a vir dres an nos

Gans faglennow yn dorn
proseshyon tanek ha rudh
hynsyow dres koeswith
ha qwern troesya a wrussyn

Res erbynn termyn kepar ha bywnans
gyllys mar skon ynkleudh an marow
kyns kynsa golowyns an howl

Meyn hir ha gorherys
a with an bedh a sel an golow
enter yn nor an morow
wolkomm an nos

TRETHEVY QUOIT
(English translation)

A call in the night
a moment’s mortality
fires on the hill
and the thunder of drums

Whispering words
swirl like smoke
around morning fires
plans well prepared
for the journey
to come.

Graves guard
the bones
hold the life
shied
the light
stones,
like the
eyes of
the dead
watch through
the night

With torches in hand
a fiery processional
pathways through forest
and marshes we trudged

A race against time like life,
all so quickly gone
bury the dead before first rays of light

Stones tall and capped
guard the grave seal the light
enter the world of the dead
welcome the night.

credits

from My Mother's Country, released September 1, 1998
Gavin O'Loghlen : Electric guitars, drums, bass, percussion, keyboards, F whistle, vocals
Angelee Theodoros : Lead vocals
Liesl Warner : Harp
Music and words written by Gavin O'Loghlen
Cornish translations by Lillian James

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Gavin O'Loghlen Australia

Cotters Bequest is a seven piece progressive Celtic band playing 28 instruments including Highland, Uilleann, Northumbrian and Scottish smallpipes, Irish whistles, violin, cello and accordion wrapped in layers of acoustic and electric guitars, vintage keyboards and rich vocal harmonies.

In the style of "a Celtic King Crimson..a Pink Floyd with bagpipes.. with a sprinkling of Peter Gabriel."
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