Lyr Req: Y Deryn Pur / O Gentle Dove (Welsh)

Subject: Y Deryn Pur
From: JudeL
Date: 01 Aug 01 - 11:33 AM

Any true Welsh speakers please forgive the spelling but when I was at school I remember learning this song which translates to something like "Oh Gentle Dove". Since I speak very little Welsh and learned it by the sound of the words more than 20 years ago I am now concerned about singing it as I worry that I've misremembered it and am mangling the words. If anyone out there can help I'd appreciate it as it's a lovely song and I'd like to know that I've not reduced the words to nonsense or worse.
Jude

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: A Deryn Pur
From: MMario
Date: 01 Aug 01 - 11:37 AM

Oh Gentle Dove

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: A Deryn Pur
From: JudeL
Date: 01 Aug 01 - 11:42 AM

WOW - that was unbelievably quick - Thanks Jude

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: A Deryn Pur
From: MMario
Date: 01 Aug 01 - 11:45 AM

just our normal mudcat service- the *good* people can manage an answer in under two minutes...(obviously I'm not one of the "good" ones....)

Subject: Lyr Add: Y DERYN PUR / O GENTLE DOVE
From: GUEST,Old Bones
Date: 01 Aug 01 - 02:45 PM

Dear JudeL

Hope this is what you're looking for - there's a melody as well at:

http://www.acronet.net/~robokopp/welsh/gentdove.htm

Y deryn pur â'r adain las,
Bydd i mi'n was dibrydar.
O! brysur brysia at y ferch,
Lle rhois i'm serch yn gynnar.
Dos di ati, dywed wrthi
Mod i'n wylo'r dwr yn heli,
Mod i'n irad am ei gwelad,
Ac o'i chariad yn ffaelu â cherddad, O!
Duw faddeuo'r hardd ei llun
Am boeni dyn mor galad!

2. Pan o'wn yn hoenus iawn fy hwyl,
Ddiwrnod gwyl yn gwylio,
Canfyddwn fenyw lana' rioed,
Ar ysgafn droed yn rhodio.
Pan y'i gwelais syth mi sefais,
Yn fy nghalon mi feddyliais,
Wele ddynes lana'r deyrnas,
A'i gwên yn harddu'r oll o'i chwmpas;
Ni fynnwn gredu un dyn byw
Nad oedd hi ryw angyles!

Oh gentle dove, with pinion blue,
Fly swiftly to the maiden
Whom long I've loved with passion true.
A message bear love laden.
Go to her and say I'm weeping,
One hope in my bosom keeping;
'Tis to meet her, fondly greet her;
Yet if her love I fail to waken,
May Heaven forgive her all the pain
She gives this heart forsaken.

2. With heart so gay on happy day
I walked with step so sprightly,
The fairest maid I ever saw
Came tripping there so lightly.
On her beauty so amazing,
All transfixed I stood there gazing,
'Mong the fairest she seemed rarest,
Her smile did shed around fresh beauty;
She shone an angel to my view,
To love her was but duty!

Pob hwyl

Hen Esgyrn!

HTML line breaks added. --JoeClone, 1-Mar-02.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: A Deryn Pur
From: JudeL
Date: 02 Aug 01 - 04:05 AM

Now having had a chance to look at it properly, I'm pleased to find that my memory must be better than I thought as there were only a couple of words that I had changed slightly which given that I first learnt it more than 20 years ago is better than I expected! Jude