THE DIALECT IN LOCAL DARTMOOR SONGS By Bill Murray

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BILL MURRAY:
TALK: The Dartmoor dialect lives on in the songs of our area. Bill has chosen eight songs from Dartmoor, seven are humorous, but they all contain dialect words and phrases that need to be explained in order to be understood by posh people or volks who don' cum vrim roun' yer.
Bill Murray moved to North Tawton in 1965. ''On the school bus to Okehampton all the youngsters were Devonshire born and bred; I had to learn their language to survive. I spent many Saturday nights listening to songs from older singers like Reggie Sandercock and Harry Bolt, at The White Hart Inn in the Town and in 1969, I met Bob Cann at The Seven Stars in South Tawton who drew me into his world of Dartmoor music, songs and traditions''.