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27 Feb 06 - 06:26 AM (#1680098) Subject: Lyr Req: Wales: Wild White Rose of My Heart From: GUEST,Dr Price Can you help? This is an email which came to me. I suspect the sender is American: "Hi - I used to sing a song from Wales called White Wild Rose of my Heart, but I lost the lyrics. Can you help me find them? Thanks." |
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27 Feb 06 - 10:22 AM (#1680256) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wales: Wild White Rose of My Heart From: sian, west wales I'm pretty sure it's "Lliw Gwyn Rhosyn yr Haf". The scansion works. It's most recently been published in Can y Werin (www.gwynn.co.uk) with a new English translation by Gwynn Thomas. It seems to me that it might be in that old collection that Boosey & Hawkes published years and year ago - and I can't find my copy. It was popular with the North American Welsh so that may be where your correspondent learned it. On 'googling' it, it seems that Gustav Holst might have arranged it for choirs too. sian |
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27 Feb 06 - 10:28 AM (#1680259) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wales: Wild White Rose of My Heart From: sian, west wales Oh - I should have mentioned that it's also on the 2CD re-issue, "Mered: 50 traditional folk songs". Anyone who wants to learn Welsh folk songs in the original Welsh should get this! It's great! The only weird thing is that they give all the words and notes for disc 1, but not disc 2! siân |
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27 Feb 06 - 02:36 PM (#1680403) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wales: Wild White Rose of My Heart From: GUEST,Dr Price Dioch yn fawr iawn, Sian! I'm just about to look up Lliw Gwyn Rhosyn Yr Haf, although with your considerable knowledge of Welsh tradition I know I won't to look too far! |
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27 Feb 06 - 05:34 PM (#1680597) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wales: Wild White Rose of My Heart From: sian, west wales I am but a grasshopper to your kangaroo, Mick. OK - it's late, I'm tired, and that was just one plain dumb analogy. But you get my drift. You're the daddy. siân |
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28 Feb 06 - 04:08 AM (#1680899) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wales: Wild White Rose of My Heart From: GUEST,Dr Price Some news: The sender (Forrest Evans) comes from Albuquerque, New Mexico. Sorry for the Diolch faux-pas, which appeared minus the 'l'. |
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03 Mar 06 - 08:05 AM (#1684247) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wales: Wild White Rose of My Heart From: Jim Dixon LLIW GWYN RHOSYN YR HAF / WHITE ROSE OF MY HEART is in a book called "Folk Songs of the World, Gathered from More Than 100 Countries" by Charles Haywood. Check out this web site: WorldCat. Enter your ZIP Code or Postal Code and find a library near you that has it! |
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03 Mar 06 - 10:27 AM (#1684356) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wales: Wild White Rose of My Heart From: sian, west wales Well, well - ain't that a need little gizmo? Pity there wasn't a UK one! siân |