Welsh songs
Feeling a bit down in the dumps. Nothing will cheer you up like a couple of Welsh songs.
Here are a few verses that you can easily sing along to and should cheer you up.
They are great for use at Internationals too!
Welsh songs
We’ll keep a welcome in the hillside
Far away a voice is calling,
Bells from memory do chime
Come home again, come home again,
They call through the oceans of time.
2. Well keep a welcome in the hillside.
Well keep a welcome in the Vales
This land you knew will still be singing
When you come home again to Wales.
3. This land of song will keep a welcome
And with a love that never fails,
Well kiss away each hour of hiraeth
When you come home again to Wales
Men of Harlech
Men of Harlech! In the Hollow,
Do ye hear like rushing billow
Wave on wave that surging follow
Battle’s distant sound?
Tis the tramp of Saxon foemen,
Saxon spearmen, Saxon bowmen,
Be they knights or hinds or yeomen,
They shall bite the ground!
Loose the folds asunder,
Flag we conquer under!
The placid sky now bright on high,
Shall launch its bolts in thunder!
Onward! ’tis the country needs us,
He is bravest, he who leads us
Honor’s self now proudly heads us,
Freedom, God and Right!
2. Rocky Steeps and passes narrow,
Flash with spear and flight of arrow
Who would think of death or sorrow?
Death is glory now!
Hurl the reeling horsemen over,
Let the earth dead foemen cover
Fate of friend, of wife, of lover,
Trembles on a blow!
Strands of life are riven!
Blow for blow is given
In deadly lock, or battle shock,
And mercy shrieks to heaven!
Men of Harlech! young or hoary,
Would you win a name in story?
Strike for home, for life, for glory!
Freedom, God and Right!
Welsh National Anthem - Land of our fathers
Mae hen wlad fy nhadau yn annwyl i mi
Gwlad beirdd a chantorion enwogion o fri
Ei gwrol ryfelwr, gwlad garwyr tra mad
Tros ryddid collasant eu gwaed.
Gwlad Gwlad,
Pleidiol wyf i’m gwlad,
Tra môr yn fur i’r bur hoff bau
O bydded i’r hen iaith barha
this is aspme i love welsh songs since i am a welsh teacher
Men of morgannwg rise against the foe
Send for help and lay them low
Leave all your books your pasture and your plough
Bring all your weapons join us now
Morgan calls you bids you to the stand
Drive the raiding saxons from this fair land
Men of morgannwg rise to liberty
Cymru now shall soon be free
Can’t remember the rest of this song which we were taught during the late 1960’s by my now deceased history teacher Alan Morgan at Porthcawl Secondary Modern School.
Can you get hold of the remainder of the verse/ song?
William
I’ve had a look around but have not been able to find anything.
Sounds like a good trawl through the library in Cardiff or Lampeter would be the best bet to find the source of this one.
Jonty
wales wales is the best better than all the rest we sher sheep so we have wool wooly jumpers for the one and all we play rugby all day because people like to watch us play how can you not like wales we have grass we have coal tis simalar to the north pole come to us we beg you please come to us and you just might freeze how can you not like wales
They arnt welsh they are from wales but the are not in welsh dwi eisiau cymraeg os gwelwch yn dda…..
Roeddwn i wedi gofyn am caneuon cymraeg nid caneuon saesneg
Hi William,
I learnt the same song in the 70s, but it was slightly different:
Men of morganwg rise against the foe
Send him hence or lay him low
Leave all your books, your pasture and your plough
Gird all weapons join us now.
Morgan calls you, bids you with him stand
Drive the raiding saxon from this fair land.
That’s all I remember :o)
Oh, there’s one Welsh song I really love, but it’s not a traditional one, and it’s rather long. It’s called ‘Chwarae’n Troi’n Chwerw’ and the only version I can find is by Gruff Rhys, though I don’t know if he wrote it. We used to sing this in my old school.
Mae’th fywyd di yn ddedwydd
Rwyt ti’n fodlon ar dy fyd
Ond mae ‘na rywbeth bach yng nghefn dy ben
Sy’n dy boeni di o hyd
Ti’n syrthio mewn i’r fagl
Heb wybod be di be
A does dim ar ôl ond rhyw syniad ffôl
Yr aiff popeth nôl i’w le
(cytgan)
Ac mae chwarae’n troi’n chwerw
Mae’r gwin yn troi’n sur
Mae’r wen yn troi’n ddagrau
A’r wefr yn troi’n gur
Ac os wyt ti’n rhywle yn gwrando ar fy nghân
Cofia bod chwarae’n troi’n chwerw
Wrth chwara fo tân
Ac yna bob yn dipyn
Mae’r darnau’n dod ynghyd
Ti’n dod i ddeall sut mae cael
Y gorau o ddau fyd
Mae’n dod yn haws deud celwydd
Sy’n swnio fel y gwir
A ti’n gwbod yn iawn bod y gwpan yn llawn
A bod y ffordd o’th flaen yn glir
(bont)
Mae bywyd yn rhy fyr
Ac amser yn mynd yn brin
Ti’n ymladd a’th gydwybod
Ond yn fodlon ildio ar ddim
Ti’n trio peidio gwrando
Ar y geiriau yn dy ben
Ti’n cyffwrdd ar gwirionedd
Sy’n gudd tu ol i’r llen
Ti’n trio cae dy lygaid
Ar beth a sut a phwy
Ond ti’n gwbod yn glir bod pob dim yn wir
A bod y gwir yn brifo mwy
(cytgan)
Another good Song is ‘Y Cwm’, I don’t have the words on hand, but it’s worth checking out.
Though, if you’re looking for the shorter, traditional songs, try ‘Sospan Fach’, ‘Oes Gafr Eto’, ‘Calon Lan’ and ‘Ar hyd y Nos’.
(Hope this helps!)