'This Land' Wales and where else?

Subject: 'This Land' Wales and ???
From: Chris in Wheaton
Date: 08 Aug 03 - 12:32 PM

Daffyd Iwan is getting some bad press right now, but I think he was just a little naive. I'm going to keep learning to sing his Welsh version of "This Land."
The chorus is:

"Mae'n wlad i mi ac mae'n wlad i tithau
O gopa'r Wyddfa i lawr i'w thraethau,
O'r De i'r Gogledd, O Fôn i Fynwy:
Mae'r wlad hon yn eiddo i ti a mi."

I know there is a Canadian version of "This Land" too.
How many of you sing other language versions for other countries?

Chris, dwi'n iawn yn Wheaton

Subject: RE: 'This Land' Wales and where else?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 08 Aug 03 - 02:13 PM

Is this a rendition of Woody Guthrie's's "This Land Is Your Land," Chris?
Can you give a translation for us non-Welshophones?
Thanks.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: 'This Land' Wales and where else?
From: Chris in Wheaton
Date: 08 Aug 03 - 03:21 PM

Oops - should be Dafydd Iwan who wrote the Welsh version of Woody's great song - he got some bad press yesterday for implying that the English are moving to Wales to escape the non-English in England!

His chorus translates (I think):

"This land is my land, this land is your land
From the top of Mt. Snowdon (Yr Wyddfa) down to the beaches
From the South to the North [which are oft at odds themselves]
From Angelsey to Monmouth [??]
This land belongs to you and me."

I think the song definitely needs some more current verses to reflect some of the turmoil in Wales about preserving the Welsh culture and language.

Chris

Subject: RE: 'This Land' Wales and where else?
From: davidneale
Date: 09 Aug 03 - 12:47 PM

That's a good literal translation.

Subject: RE: 'This Land' Wales and where else?
From: Leadfingers
Date: 09 Aug 03 - 02:35 PM

Matt Armour,an expat Scot living in Milton Keynes,is perhaps NOT the most europhile singers on the scene. He has alovely rewrite of This
Land is Your Land with the last line of the Chorus This land belongs to the E.E.C.

Subject: RE: 'This Land' Wales and where else?
From: GUEST,still cookieless paddymac
Date: 09 Aug 03 - 11:29 PM

There's a great version that speaks to Irish folk, written by Tommy Makem. There's also a Canadian version, and likely at least a few dozen more. It is an eminently singable melody with readily adaptable lyrics.