Welsh songs

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!)

Da iawn i ti James

Beth am “calon lan” neu “yma o hyd”

To William Lewis.
We learned this song in New road junior Porthcawl
in the early 60,s.
As I remember the verse finished with,
Writing her own languages, singing her own songs,righting all her conquerors wrongs.

MDM

Think the second verse is something like this. Words in “” mean it sounds like

Men of Morganwg rise to liberty
Cymru shall soon be set free
With “insult” banners
With “insult” songs
Righting all these conquering wrongs

Margan calls you
Bids you with him stand
Driving the raiding Saxons from this fair land

Re: ‘Chwarae’n Troi’n Chwerw’ . This song was penned by Caryl Parry Jones. Caryl is still writing Welsh songs and can be seen singing on stage occasionally but her forte is writing and teaching and bringing on talented
children and young people.
Eirlys.

The version of Chawarae’n troi chwerw from the Atal Genhedlaeth album was put together by Cerys (catatonia) Matthews and Gruff Rhys.

Rise men of Cymru oo against the foe
now let us all our valour show
Turn back the saxon , make him fly the land
None can against our fervour/ valour(?) stand.

Clash of armour, flourishing of spear
these shall make music our foes shall hear…

I remember odd lyrics and the tune from a primay school music lesson Tyneside circa 1969

Men of morgannwg rise to liberty
Cymru now shall soon be free
With her own language, singing her own songs
Righting all her conquers’ wrongs,
Morgan calls you, bids you with him stand,
Drive the raiding Saxon from this fair land

Below are the words of ‘Captain Morgan’s March’ Source: Singing Together and Rhythm and Music, Autumn Term 1957 as published in The Oxford School Music Book’s, Teacher’s Manual Senior, Part 1. Welsh song, English words by J P B Dobbs:

Men of Morganwg, rise against the foe!
Send him hence or lay him low.
Leave all your books, your pasture and your plough,
Gird on wea-pons, join us now.
Mor-gan calls you, bids you with him stand,
Drive the raid-ing Sa-xon from this fair land.

Men of Morganwg, rise to liberty!
Cymru now shall soon be free,
With her own language singing her own songs,
Righting all her conquer’s wrongs.
Morgan calls you bids you with him stand,
Drive the raiding Saxon from this fair land.

I learned this song in my Secondary Modern School in London in the early sixties. You don’t have to be Welsh to enjoy a good song and melody.