Wonderful artist, Meic Stevens. My particular favourites amongst many good stuff - Rue St Michel (an oldy but a gold nugget goody), and Lapis Lazuli, a more recent outing from Master Stevens. I saw him in performance at Yr Eisteddfod Genedlaethol a few years ago, and he was really excellent.

So this is NOS DU, NOS DA -

Nos du, nos da ffrindiau
'Sdim goleuni yn ein ty
'Sdim un seren, does dim lleuad
Does dim hwyliau ar y lli
Yma heno hebddo ti

Yma heno heb dy gariad
Dwn i ddim beth yw dy fwriad
Fo'lon marw am dy gwmni
Gwenlli, beth sy?

Sibrwd gwatwar, mwg y dafarn
Gwn i be' sy'n mynd ymlaen
Ar ôl y ffilach fe ddaw y daran
Nid hwn yw'r lle i bethau cain
'Mond pennau bach a bwgan brain

Heddiw, 'fory, drennydd, rhywbryd
Fe ddaw'r llanastr i ben
Yn y pen draw bydd datguddiad
Eglurhad daeth i'mhen
Ga i llygad hebog glas y nen

Hope this is of help. The Nos Du, Nos Da album was very good, and the track called Bobby Sands certainly helps to raise the frisson of non-comformism in Meic Stevens' material. He was touted at one time as a British answer to Bob Dylan. But fortunately he went back to his Welsh roots and produced a series of excellent albums of songs in Welsh.

Shoh slaynt,

Bobby Bob