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Narrated by David Oates
‘Rooster Had Some Reason to be Proud’ is a classic Cornish dialect story made famous by the late storyteller Herbie Lean and here recited by raconteur David Oates of Proper Job singers.
David Oates
David Oates is a Cornish bard who has published a history of Troon, entitled ‘Echoes of an Age’, a guide to Godrevy and Gwithian, ‘Walk the hidden ways’ and a slim volume of his own verse, ‘Poems from the far west’. His unpublished work includes a reflection on a Cornish childhood, ‘What time do they close the gates, Mister?’ and a fictionalised story for young people based on the extant life of St Gwinear, with the working title, ‘The son of a king’. David is working on another guide in the ‘Walk the hidden ways’ series, entitled ‘Hard Rock country’.
David is a tenor singer with the well-known group, Proper Job based in mid- Cornwall and has collaborated with Portreath musician, Alice Allsworth, to write the lyrics for a number of songs about Cornwall and the Cornish.
