Guitar: Cutting The Turf
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Channel: threelegsoman · 2008 · Music
A Manx folk song written by E Oxenford which tells of how people used to cut turf for their fires. It is still done today. People rent a plot of land on the mountainside and cut pellags for their fires. Pellags are the blocks of turf which are sliced from the plot by the special spades designed for the purpose. The words of this song were written by Edward Oxenford the the air 'Hie mee stlagh dhys thie ben-treoghe' (I went into the widow's house)
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