My favorite Welsh song, whether or not really a hymn.

There's been threads before about the usual melody - sounds like "Life is Like a Mountain Railway" to me, and the protest variant "A Miner's Life is like a sailor's" even more of course. Some of the best loved Welsh hymns, such as Mae D'iesiau (I need thee), came from the US.

The Welsh radio hymn show had a choir singing the Calon Lan words with the melody of New Zealand's Pokarekare Ana - very nice to try.

And, I believe, it is a long "a" (as in "car") in Calon and a very long "a^" in La^n.

Chris, grandparents from Dolgellau (which can be pronounced lots of ways)