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Thread #8424   Message #2452805
Posted By: GUEST,Bernadette
29-Sep-08 - 10:04 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Watching the Wheat (Welsh song)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Watching the Wheat (Welsh song)
I absolutely love this Music.. The first time I heard it was at a Brass Band Solos Competition, in South Australia. ( I think around the eighties)- a young girl played it on Tenor Horn (it was Titled...Variations on a Welsh Theme). At that time I had no idea it was an actual Folk song named Watching the Wheat. Some years later my son played Watching the Wheat on Cornet at a concert in the Barrosa Valley, (again in S.A.) I was bowled over again by the haunting melody.      Believe it or not,the first time I heard anyone singing this beautiful Folk song was on one of Billy Connelly's "TOUR" series!! I may be mistaken (especially in the spelling of this name) Did Bryn Turkel (sorry!!!) sing this at some stage??    Love to know and how to fit the words with the music.

Bernadette........thanks for the opportunity to search