MYFANWY {LYRICS: CYMRAEG (WELSH) & SAESNEG (ENGLISH)

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Title | MYFANWY {LYRICS: CYMRAEG (WELSH) & SAESNEG (ENGLISH) |
Author | dewi |
Duration | 3:04 |
File Format | MP3 / MP4 |
Original URL | https://youtube.com/watch?v=t_NGyzxpQ0o |
Description
After some time with voice & breathing issues, which caused me to leave the Local Choir, I am starting to sing again. This is the first time, in quite a long time, still not a hundred percent, but I've been wanting to sing & record me singing this song for some time now.
The melody of Myfanwy, was written and composed by Joseph Parry, the lyrics written by Richard Davies & was first published in 1875.
It is believed by many, that the haunting tune of Myfanwy is possibly one of the greatest love songs ever written...I know that I certainly do, just as, the late, great Ryan Davies described it. The Myfanwy lyrics tell the tragic story of the unfulfilled love of a poor young poet called Hywel ab Einion, for a beautiful young Norman noblewoman, the Daughter of the Norman Earl of Arundel, who lived in Dinas Bran castle, the remains of which, still stands above the Welsh town of Llangollen...the scene setting, for the sad love story of Myfanwy. Myfanwy, according to sources at that time, was the most beautiful woman in Powys.
LYRICS:...CYMRAEG (WELSH):
Paham mae dicter, O Myfanwy,
Yn llenwi'th lygaid duon di?
A'th ruddiau tirion, O Myfanwy,
Heb wrido wrth fy ngweled i?
Pa le mae'r wên oedd ar dy wefus
Fu'n cynnau 'nghariad ffyddlon ffôl?
Pa le mae sain dy eiriau melys,
Fu'n denu'n nghalon ar dy ôl?
Myfanwy boed yr holl o'th fywyd
Dan heulwen ddisglair canol dydd.
A boed i rosyn gwridog iechyd
I ddawnsio ganmlwydd ar dy rudd.
Anghofia'r oll o'th addewidion
A wneist i rywun, 'ngeneth ddel,
A dyro'th law, Myfanwy dirion
I ddim ond dweud y gair "Ffarwél".
LYRICS:...SAESNEG (ENGLISH)
Why so the anger, Oh Myfanwy,
That fill your dark eyes
Your gentle cheeks, Oh Myfanwy,
No longer blush beholding me?
Where now the smile upon your lips
That lit my foolish faithful love?
Where now the sound of your sweet words,
That drew my heart to follow you?
Myfanwy, may your life entirely be
Beneath the midday sun's bright glow,
And may a blushing rose of health
Dance on your cheek a hundred years.
I forget all your words of promise
You made to someone, my pretty girl
So give me your hand, my sweet Myfanwy,
For no more but to say "farewell".