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still practised today. The earliest mention seems to be in a letter to the Gentleman's Magazine for 1790 where the writer says "At Helstone, a genteel and populus borough town in Cornwall, it is customary to dedicate the 8th May to revelry (festive mirth, not loose jollity). It is called Furry Day".
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The children's dance involves over 1,000 children aged from 7 to 18, all dressed in white, the boys with lily of the valley buttonholes and the girls wearing flowers in their hair, the flower determined by the school they attend. They come from St Michael's School, Nansloe School, Parc Eglos School,
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pageant at 8:30 a.m. with the last completed by 9:30 a.m., children's dance traditionally at 10 a.m. though in recent years the numbers and logistics have seen this advanced to 9.50 a.m. and in 2016 to 9.40 a.m., midday dance at noon, and evening dance at 5 p.m.. Of these, the midday dance
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means the first of the month in Cornish, but the first letter mutates to an "h" in some circumstances. It has been suggested that "tow" means garland in Cornish. This is not correct, though "toesow" means tufts, tassles, or bunches. Some have suggested that Hal-an-Tow means "raise the roof". In
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recorded an arrangement of the Moss song made by their musical director Derek Broadbent. By Christmas 1977 half a million copies of the record had been sold, and it was only kept from the top position in the Christmas charts by Paul McCartney's
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Helston tow is pronounced to rhyme with cow and not toe. The Cornish word "tew" means fat, and a recent explanation of the name is that Hal-an-Tow means the eve of the fattening time. The version of the Hal-an-Tow sung by
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The Furry Dance takes place every year on 8 May (except when the date falls on a Sunday or Monday — Monday being Market Day — when it is the preceding Saturday). In Helston, 8 May, the
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The girls wear white dresses following the school rules and boys white shirt and trousers or shorts. They all dance around Helston town, with the band playing the accompanying music.
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with various historical and mythical themes. The Hal-an-Tow Pageant starts at St John's Bridge and is performed at seven locations around the town. Characters include
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All the boys wear white clothing, with the only colour being their school ties, and the girls (also in white)wear matching coloured head-dress flowers (blue
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verse was added in 2005. The Aunt Mary Moses verse is only performed at the first location, at St John's Bridge, and the last location, by
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wrote that the tune was sometimes known as "John the Bone". the following rhyme often being attached to the tune by local children,
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reached number 21 on the UK singles chart. Wogan did not include the last verse (the climax of the story) in this recording.
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label in 1912. It has since been recorded by many other artists. A bass baritone version of the song was recorded by
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and other folk groups has never been sung in Helston. The Helston song does not include the verse about
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The BBC recorded the band playing for the dance on 8 May 1943 and this recording is included in
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The dance is very well attended every year and people travel from all over the world to see it:
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by Mike Waterson, and this version must be later than 1954. The original song was recorded in
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Similar customs can be found in, amongst other places, Biewer, a district of
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in 1846. The words of the Hal-an-Tow as it is currently sung in Helston are:
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and was released posthumously in a collection called "Just call me Happy".
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and horns. These words appear to have been added from Shakespeare's play
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in Devon. A Flora Dance takes place through the narrow streets of
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is perhaps the best known: it was traditionally the dance of the
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The Hal-an-Tow, which takes place on the same day, is a kind of
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The verse about Saint Michael was added in the 1930s by
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Hal-an-Tow Alan Kent on Helston's 'Flora Day' tradition
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