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Thread #37437 Message #2237647
Posted By: Mick Tems
16-Jan-08 - 09:31 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Y Mochyn Du / Old Black Pig (Welsh)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Y Mochyn Du / Old Black Pig (Welsh)
If it's any help at all, I have a Victorian Valleys ballad with the Mochyn Du verses in Wenglish:
The Mochyn Du
All you people, come and listen Teardrops in your eyes will glisten Pain will now your heart be rending At your Mochyn's sudden ending
CHORUS: Oh how sad indeed are we Oh how sad indeed are we There was grief and tribulation When we lost the Mochyn Du
What did cause the termination Of our Mochyn's pilgrimation? Was it too much wash or barley That did waft her home so early?
Yes, the truth we must be telling Too much grain her stomach swelling She got very ill and poorly Closed her eyes and went to glory!
Quickly Dai ran to Llwyncelyn Fetching Matty to the Mochyn Matty said, to our great horror That the pig could not recover!
Then we built a silver coffin Silver knobs and velvet trimming And a vault with bricks and mortar In the churchyard we did order
Then we sent to Isaac Thomas For his hearse, which is so famous And for horses black as mourning For to drive our poor old Mochyn
Then the Reverend Thomas Griffiths Came to read the funeral service All the people there were sobbing At the funeral of the Mochyn
Mary Jones and Peggy Williams Led the way in solemn silence All the people in the county At the grave were weeping plenty
Then we went home, nice and tidy Each one's heart was very heavy But the girls were crying shocking 'Cause they'd gone and lost the Mochyn!