can the Welsh anthem be sung in English so we can all understand
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Only 1 in 5 people in Wales speak Welsh . Let’s have the anthem in English so we can all get fired up
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It’ll sound like a load of cobblers………………….Oh, hang on tho’. ;)
One English version of Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau is
The land of my fathers is dear to me,
Country of poets and singers, celebrities indeed:
Its warring defenders, so gallant and brave,
For freedom their life’s blood they gaveLand!, Land!, Pledge-ful I am to my country!
While seas secure
This land so pure,
O may our old language endure.O land of the mountains, the bard’s paradise,
Whose precipice, valleys are fair to my eyes,
Green murmuring forest, far echoing flood
Fire the fancy and quicken the bloodFor tho’ the fierce foeman has ravaged your realm,
The old speech of Wales he cannot o’erwhelm,
Our passionate poets to silence command,
Nor banish the harp from your strandI must admit as a non-speaking Welsh language Wrexhamite Welshman I have been embarrassed on numerous occasions at the Racecourse when the Welsh language version has been attempted. I guess if sung in English then it would be equally as embarrassing.
Only 1 in 5 people in Wales speak Welsh . Let’s have the anthem in English so we can all get fired up
For God’s sake man. If Vinny Jones can learn it, so can you!
This country (Wales) has so much potential! Yet the WAG drags it down. How? by pandering to some vociferous minorities. No, not Welsh people – others. I worked in a very senior position in NHS Wales and fully supported a scheme for Midwifery Training in Welsh. Go to a care home / Nursing home in North west Wales and hear 90 year old people struggle to communicate with (cheap to employ) 20 something Filipinos or Eastern Europeans. My God this is Wales. Their country! The contribution of Welsh Miners and Farmers (yet there were others in the UK) to the war effort was critical! Add to that refugee children from bomb targeted cities in England and Bevans NHS and we should be celebrating Wales. I am Irish by birth and lineage. Yet I was always,always made welcome in my adopted country of Wales.
So. CYMRU AM BYTH!Not quite sure which planet you live on now Bannon, but if live until I’m 90, then I’d be more than made-up if a 20 something Filipino’ gave me a bed bath everyday and couldn’t care less if I didn’t understand her!
And fancy foreigners coming over here and taking up some welsh lasses job! The top of the morning to ya isn’t it so!!
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