Thank you for your reply, Pibydd. I went away and looked around the web a bit (before reading your reply) and I think I must have mis-understood what Trefor was saying. Trefor is from north Wales. He sings it north Walean and this is almost certainly because he (Trefor, not Wil Hopcyn) is from North Wales. Having misheard what Trefor was saying I then went and put the wrong info on Mudcat. Should I try and get the false information removed? I suppose (dare I?) that the way Mary Hopkin sings is likely to be closer to the original. If I try and learn it, perhaps I'd better try using her sounds. I could be murdering it, but it doesn't get sung often enough and it's so lovely. Although I did not know Welsh I am interested in how languages change both geographically and through time, so I really enjoyed your reply. Thanks again xx
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