Mari Griffith - Mari Griffith's Welsh Folk [1973]
Channel: Música Mágica
Date: 2021-02-20

Mari Griffith - Mari Griffith's Welsh Folk [1973]

Side A

A1 Y DERYN PUR (The Gentle Bird)
A boy asks a wild bird to fly to his sweetheart and declare his
love, 18th century words in a much older tradition.

A2 OES GAFER ETO (Is There Another Goat)
A cumulative nonsense-song.

A3 LISA LAN (Fair Lisa)
An ancient modal tune with hauntingly beautiful words.

A4 MAENT YN DWEDYD (So They Say)
A cheeky country lad tells of his love — which the neighbours
know nothing about.

A5 OS DAW FY NGHSRIAD (If My Love Should Come)
“*If my love comes here tonight speak him fair, but tell him I am
another's.””

A6 TRA BO DAU (While Two Love)
In praise of constant love.

A7 YR ENETH GADD EJ GWRTHOD (The Rejected Maiden)
The sentimental ballad of an erring country maiden who found
her father”s door locked against her.

A8 DACW NGHARIAD (There's My Love)
A pretty tune and charming words. “There's my love, down in
the orchard, How I wish 1 were there myself.”

A9 RHOWCH IMI EIRIAU (Please Give Me Words)
This tune is by Mari Griffith. And the theme? Love.


Side B
B1 CAN Y MELINYDD (Miller's Song)
He's a very jolly miller, as usual in folk-songs.

B2 CWYN MAM YNG NGHYFERAITH (Mother-in-Law's Complaint)
Her complaint is that her son is doing too much for his wife.

B3 AR LA Y MOR (On The Sea Shore)
Old verses of filigreed beauty about a distant lover.

B4 UN, DAV, TRI (One, Two, Three)
A lullaby. This is an old tune with new words by Mari Griffith.

B5 HEN FERCHETAN (Old Love Easy)
Emphatically pre-Women's-Lib in attitude! But the 
conventional mockery isn't unkind.

B6 GIRRU'R YCHEN (Cowboy Song)
A ploughman in the Vale of Glamorgan encourages his team on
a fresh April morning.

B7 Y BROGA BACH (The Little Frog)
Á wooing expedition by Anthony Rowley's Welsh counterpart.

B8 HIRAETH (Longing)
We never learn whom the singer longs for. But these anonymous
verses are among the most poignant in the Welsh language.

B9 DERYN Y BWN (Little Bird Of The Beacons)
A nonsense-song.

B10 Y DERYN DU (The Blackbird)
A honeyed address in the same idiom as the first song on SideA.

B11 FFARWEL I LANGYFELACH (Farewell to Langy felach)
An 18th century ballad about a country boy who enlists in the
Light Dragoons — to the dismay of the girl he left behind him.
Elwyn Evans.

A lbum Produced by DESMOND WALKER

REDIFFUSION - ZS 131

The cool, tender voice of Mari Griffith matches her dark beauty. 
Brought up in Glamorgan to be thoroughly Welsh-speaking, 
she is now one of the busiest television performers in Britain. 
This young folk-singer, who accompanies herself on the guitar, 
has also made many successful personal appearances in Europe.