Cockleshells
My memories of first hearing this song back in Melbourne Australia, in the early 1960’s sung by the sadly missed Glen Tomasetti are still vivid. She sang this with another good friend Brian Mooney. Brian is a terrific artist especially of his Australian Outback scenes, http://www.brianmooneyart.com
Cockleshells is our anniversary song for ‘Songs From the Settle’ as we started recording these one year ago due to lockdown and we intend to keep on going !!! as we hope all you will.
COCKLESHELLS Traditional.
When cockleshells turn silver bells
And mussels grow on every tree
When blooms the rose in frost and snow
Then will my false love prove true to me.
Chorus
Oh Waly Waly our love is bonny
A little while when first it’s new
But loves grows old and waxes cold
And fades away like morning dew.
Oh had I whist before I’d kissed
That love had been so hard to win
I’d have locked my heart in a box of gold
And tied it up with a silver pin.
Chorus.
Oh Waly Waly our love is bonny
A little while when first it’s new
But loves grows old and waxes cold
And fades away like morning dew.