I'm 56 years old and have loved Myfanwy since I first heard on John Ford's classic movie How Green Was My Valley - one of my all time favorite films. I never knew the name of the song until I searched Youtube for the "theme to How Green Was My Valley". This song is so very beautiful that it never fails to bring a tear to my eye!
This was the favourite song of my beloved grandfather. He passed away when I was still a school-boy and I'm still not sure how I've survived without him, I'm now 58! To me, the best man man that ever lived. God Bless you Gramp.
Thanks for for the video, brings back so many good memories.
This is just shivers down the spine from start to finish! It's so beautifully sung the harmonies and dynamics are amazing. My favourite piece from any male voice choir.
This also means that people who choose to live in Great Britain, MUST adopt/learn the British way of life, show respect and choose to contribute to the British [European] as a whole. It is not a meal-ticket or a quick fix, hence our current crisis. It is still a great nation and offers itself to help others.
Indenpendance is'nt the way forward. If anything history should teach us this. Having a direct input, self governance in line with GREAT Britain and OUR countries future is a must. Let us look back to, 'what made us a great nation', let us move forward as 'a single nation' yet, having learned from our past, our mistakes to make a better futre for all.
I can not say how I feel, but if I could find the words, it would be something along the lines of 'so many nations give us so many things in life!' 'not all of our society appreciates things at the same time, perhaps some never will'. Being born in a farm in Wales, growing up there I never really understood our heritage, it took me until I moved away to appreciate how beautiful the country itself is and how deep the Welsh people are.. 'Cymru am byth'
Born in Llwydcoed, grew up in South London, on school hols in 1953 down in Llwydcoed fell in love (early lust) with the Post Masters daughter called Myfanwy.
Still lust after Myfanwy ;~) Nothing beats this for emotion, it does make me weep with joy/regret !
Born in Llwydcoed, grew up in South London, on school hols in 1953 down in Llwydcoed feel in love (early lust) with the Post Masters daughter called Myfanwy.
Still lust after Myfanwy ;~) Nothing beats this for emotion, it does make me weep with joy/regret !
I used to live on the Gower and Mumbles head, 40 years ago. I've spent a lifetime a continent apart. The music and slides brought tears to my eyes. Diolch yn fawr.
Superb choir! Wonderfully sung. I do think, however that this song works much better when performed by a solo tenor with harp or piano accompaniment as the intimacy of this setting suits the content of the words better.
I wonder if their tempo is a bit slow as well, never mind.......excellent singing!!
My school choir sang this just recently, I had a flu and could barely sing. But I still did anyway, when we stood singing this, it was the first time we all as students felt very close to eachother.
Love the Vocal role model this choir gives me. The message of the music is truely felt. I really enjoyed "You Raise Me Up" but the comments were disabled. Very moving and inspiring!
This version of Myfanwy was played at my granddad's funeral two days ago. It was one of his favourite pieces of music. Absolutely beautiful, I'd like to thank this Welsh male choir from the bottom of my heart for this song!
I bought this choir's LP for what turned out to be my father's last Christmas 40 years ago. He had been brought up to age 3 1/2 yrs by his mother then handed over to adoptive parents. His eyes would glass over listening to this song frequently in his final months and he would speak of her. he also spoke of the loss of fellow RAF pilots in the Battle of Britain in WW 2. It is he whom I remember when I hear this choir sing this song.
@MsSweetwaters You have made big tears to come to my eyes, my late mother came from Denbigh North Wales, and I bought an album for her of this choir to make her feel as if she were home. God bless you, you have lovely memories of your father.
i listen to this chior every day ,they bring a sweet sprit to my body,they are the best singers in the world.when they sing this song ,i think of the film ,how green is my valley.
phowells, please tell your Man and Dad that another exiled Welshman is praying for your brother and his family tonight. Condolences and best wishes to you all for the future.
If anyone ever travels to Borth-y-Gest, be sure to visit the memorial stone at the church. My family placed it there for my brother, who was killed in Iraq at age 20.
My father was welsh from the valleys and this was his favourite.Sadly he passed away in 1967 and now it has become my favourite.My father was proud to be welsh and I am proud to have welsh blood in me.God bless Wales.
I sang in my church choir (Episcopal) around 40 yrs ago - and our hymnbook had so many hymns ''from the Welsh'' given as little credits on the upper parts of the hymns. Little did I know what fantastic choral singers that these hymns were taken from, and what country they were from. Thank you!
I'm English and I think this song is so beautiful. All I can say is, you Welsh have a secret weapon. It is your singing. It melts English hearts. Well done. You are still rubbish at Rugby though!
This was my grandfathers favourite song, I can see the mountains,misty.Orion reflected in a pool, water running over granite shot with gold, the Barmouth estuary in Autumn....
I exhausted myself trying to find the sheet music for this song and to no avail couldn't. Then one day I was playing some hymns on the the piano (I'm Mormon) and LO and Behold I played "O home Beloved" and it's the same Tune! Which is awesome and makes sense because most americans of Welsh descent are MOrmon (to my knowledge.)
My parents were both from Wales. They refuse to go back and they won't hear of me visiting there. This song makes me so so sad. I feel so disconnected.
Right.Then maybe you have to wait 3 years.Wales is worth the wait.Will give you time to do some research on where you want to go,what to see,etc.Something to look forward to.
Doesn't matter where you come from - simply one of the most beautiful songs ever written. If, like me, you're a Welshman abroad, it fills you full of hiraeth. Diolch.
I'm an Englishman in my 60s, and I love this song - always have from the moment I first heard it; every time I hear it, it is like the first time - lump in the throat, hairs standing up on the back of my neck! Thank you so much for posting this, and with beautiful photographs of this wonderful country.
i always love these, my great uncle was in the choir, he left around 94-96, but i cant find any cd's from that time. still awsome voices from an awsome country.
greets from germany from a half welsh half german.
I am not Welsh...Heck, I am not even Brittish... but this song makes me homesick...for places I have never even so much as seen. Beautiful! Thank you for posting (:
I am a very English lady who does not speak Welsh (a beautiful sounding language to my ears) but this makes me cry every time. Keep singing boys. And thank you.
The Hong Kong Welsh Male Voice Choir is including this in our autumn repertoire - including our first visit to Beijing - and this is definitely a model version for us!
there is nothing you can say that could ever describe the feelings within the sound of this lovely choir enters your very soul! thank god I can hear this beatiful song
I've heard so many versions of Myfanwy but this version is by far the best. The lyrics are enough to make you tingle but brought to life by a choir is enough to bring a tear to the eye of even the biggest, "matcho" Welshman
As beautiful as this is, I wish I could find my cd with this choir singing this song, my computer doesnt do it justice. I used to listen to it daily, the power and beauty of this song performed by this choir on the right recording is incredible, particularly in the way the bass part is so full and sweetened so perfectly by the high tenor.
This is the best rendition i've come across on youtube of my (and my black terrier Bryn's) Welsh favourite. Bryn always sings along with me to this one. Great pictures too of a beautiful area, where i first saw the light of day.
Myfanwy, may you spend your lifetime Beneath the midday sunshine's glow, And on your cheeks O may the roses Dance for a hundred years or so. Forget now all the words of promise You made to one who loved you well, Give me your hand, my sweet Myfanwy, But one last time, to say "farewell". The deep poetry of this song matched only by the immense and stunning beauty of this singing. Perfect in balance and feeling. Unbelievable. Diolch yn fawr.
I hate the "poetic" English translations of traditional Welsh songs. The forced rhyming always requires at best moderate changing of the original meaning, and at worst completely different lines. A literal translation may not read as "poetically", but at least the meaning is untarnished.
Lovely tune, great singing
77jho 2 weeks ago
Fab-lous.
TheBlueb0ttle 1 month ago
Y gân cariad mwyaf prydferth a ysgrifennwyd erioed - The most beautiful love song ever written.....
granitePillar 2 months ago
I'm 56 years old and have loved Myfanwy since I first heard on John Ford's classic movie How Green Was My Valley - one of my all time favorite films. I never knew the name of the song until I searched Youtube for the "theme to How Green Was My Valley". This song is so very beautiful that it never fails to bring a tear to my eye!
SLeverett55 2 months ago 2
This was the favourite song of my beloved grandfather. He passed away when I was still a school-boy and I'm still not sure how I've survived without him, I'm now 58! To me, the best man man that ever lived. God Bless you Gramp.
Thanks for for the video, brings back so many good memories.
TheDon444 3 months ago
This is just shivers down the spine from start to finish! It's so beautifully sung the harmonies and dynamics are amazing. My favourite piece from any male voice choir.
nelliemoser1 3 months ago
This also means that people who choose to live in Great Britain, MUST adopt/learn the British way of life, show respect and choose to contribute to the British [European] as a whole. It is not a meal-ticket or a quick fix, hence our current crisis. It is still a great nation and offers itself to help others.
mobyleo3 4 months ago
Indenpendance is'nt the way forward. If anything history should teach us this. Having a direct input, self governance in line with GREAT Britain and OUR countries future is a must. Let us look back to, 'what made us a great nation', let us move forward as 'a single nation' yet, having learned from our past, our mistakes to make a better futre for all.
mobyleo3 4 months ago
I can not say how I feel, but if I could find the words, it would be something along the lines of 'so many nations give us so many things in life!' 'not all of our society appreciates things at the same time, perhaps some never will'. Being born in a farm in Wales, growing up there I never really understood our heritage, it took me until I moved away to appreciate how beautiful the country itself is and how deep the Welsh people are.. 'Cymru am byth'
mobyleo3 4 months ago
There is no more beautiful melody anywhere, and with harmonies and singing like this it makes perfect listening every time. - John Austin, Australia
jrakg 4 months ago
crying :'(
SuperSeabass11 4 months ago
Born in Llwydcoed, grew up in South London, on school hols in 1953 down in Llwydcoed fell in love (early lust) with the Post Masters daughter called Myfanwy.
Still lust after Myfanwy ;~) Nothing beats this for emotion, it does make me weep with joy/regret !
superwelshwizard 5 months ago
Born in Llwydcoed, grew up in South London, on school hols in 1953 down in Llwydcoed feel in love (early lust) with the Post Masters daughter called Myfanwy.
Still lust after Myfanwy ;~) Nothing beats this for emotion, it does make me weep with joy/regret !
superwelshwizard 5 months ago
As an englishman i must admit, The welsh are the finest singers in the world. Beutiful it touches the very soul.
entacoman 5 months ago
Ar gyfer Garry Jenkins, David Powell, Charles Breslin a Phillip Hill. Hedd i'ch llwch. Mawr obeithio y bydd y cymunedau'n gofalu am eu teuluoedd.
RhysapTomos 5 months ago
I used to live on the Gower and Mumbles head, 40 years ago. I've spent a lifetime a continent apart. The music and slides brought tears to my eyes. Diolch yn fawr.
ZimbaZumba 5 months ago
This song is so comforting and reassuring. Beautiful.
Vulpes217 7 months ago
Superb choir! Wonderfully sung. I do think, however that this song works much better when performed by a solo tenor with harp or piano accompaniment as the intimacy of this setting suits the content of the words better.
I wonder if their tempo is a bit slow as well, never mind.......excellent singing!!
wks1978 8 months ago
Angels are singing. Just listen...
szalard 8 months ago
truely beautiful. brings tears to my eyes
vindicari 8 months ago
This is why we have ears & hearing. To hear the sheer beauty of this is almost too much. Beautifully sung, magical.
trousercough 8 months ago
My school choir sang this just recently, I had a flu and could barely sing. But I still did anyway, when we stood singing this, it was the first time we all as students felt very close to eachother.
MrFunxy 9 months ago
Absolutely beautiful, such harmony.
Pendaws 9 months ago
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brings tears to my eyes every time i hear this wonderfull song. im so proud to be welsh!! awesome
cathy55ify 11 months ago
brings tears to my eyes every time i hear this wonderfull song. im so proud to be welsh!!
cathy55ify 11 months ago
@cathy55ify please vote for independence then.......and give us english a break.
junkman19571 7 months ago
@cathy55ify please vote for independence then.......and give us english a break.still a beautifully sung beautiful song........10/10.
junkman19571 7 months ago
Love the Vocal role model this choir gives me. The message of the music is truely felt. I really enjoyed "You Raise Me Up" but the comments were disabled. Very moving and inspiring!
RikkyB95 11 months ago
How can even the hardest of hearts not be moved by this wonderful song?
222jenson 11 months ago
This was my dad's favourite songs, sung by his favourite choir. Still brings a lump to my throat.
bobbowen65 1 year ago
Awsome place - Awsome people - Awsome Choir ! (Awsome surf too) : I am proud to be Welsh.
esonscar 1 year ago 2
Awsome place - Awsome people - Awsome Choir ! (Awsome surf too) : I am proud to be Welsh.
esonscar 1 year ago
This version of Myfanwy was played at my granddad's funeral two days ago. It was one of his favourite pieces of music. Absolutely beautiful, I'd like to thank this Welsh male choir from the bottom of my heart for this song!
MultiSuperkate 1 year ago
no choir in the world will compare to a welsh male voice
chrisrog1988 1 year ago 4
@chrisrog1988 it makes us so proud to be welsh. best male voice choir in the world by far
09002104t 1 year ago 2
Beautifull, simply beautifull. It lifts my soul.
warbyuser 1 year ago
When I listen to this, all pain dissolves in the tears
bencorde 1 year ago
Just superb I have no words or anyway to say thank you.
Enogsyoutubification 1 year ago
I bought this choir's LP for what turned out to be my father's last Christmas 40 years ago. He had been brought up to age 3 1/2 yrs by his mother then handed over to adoptive parents. His eyes would glass over listening to this song frequently in his final months and he would speak of her. he also spoke of the loss of fellow RAF pilots in the Battle of Britain in WW 2. It is he whom I remember when I hear this choir sing this song.
MsSweetwaters 1 year ago 5
@MsSweetwaters You have made big tears to come to my eyes, my late mother came from Denbigh North Wales, and I bought an album for her of this choir to make her feel as if she were home. God bless you, you have lovely memories of your father.
gillwilkinsongw 1 year ago
i listen to this chior every day ,they bring a sweet sprit to my body,they are the best singers in the world.when they sing this song ,i think of the film ,how green is my valley.
thanks
blainebullman 1 year ago
HIRAETH.
fixuplooksharp66 1 year ago
phowells, please tell your Man and Dad that another exiled Welshman is praying for your brother and his family tonight. Condolences and best wishes to you all for the future.
welshsaintly 1 year ago
what a powerful thing is music. it can change your mood, lift you up,and this song is powerful and so beautiful.
seeifficare 1 year ago
redhotror said it all - exactly my feelings while hearing this.
There is nothing I could have add.
wolkowy1 1 year ago
I fod yn geni Gymraeg yn cael ei eni freintiedig. Ddim gyda llwy arian yn eich ceg, Ond cerddoriaeth yn eich gwaed Ac barddoniaeth yn eich enaid.
Toddy71 1 year ago 2
If anyone ever travels to Borth-y-Gest, be sure to visit the memorial stone at the church. My family placed it there for my brother, who was killed in Iraq at age 20.
SPC Alun R Howells, US Army.
01/15/87 - 08/13/07.
KIA Baghdad, Iraq.
A true Welshman at heart.
phowells 1 year ago 7
@phowells You have my utmost respect sir.
rufinoman 2 weeks ago
makes me proud to be welsh :)
TheRizz701 1 year ago
My father was welsh from the valleys and this was his favourite.Sadly he passed away in 1967 and now it has become my favourite.My father was proud to be welsh and I am proud to have welsh blood in me.God bless Wales.
vulcan1948 1 year ago 3
what a choir certainly touches the nerves thanks for posting
DROOCHITDUG1 1 year ago
I sang in my church choir (Episcopal) around 40 yrs ago - and our hymnbook had so many hymns ''from the Welsh'' given as little credits on the upper parts of the hymns. Little did I know what fantastic choral singers that these hymns were taken from, and what country they were from. Thank you!
mara235 1 year ago
Welsh Choirs Rule!
jhofmann33 1 year ago
Cymru am byth! Gwych!
killerwelshman 1 year ago
Is there a lovelier tune anywhere? - John Austin, Australia
jrakg 1 year ago
@jrakg john !! the answer is yes . but it will be a welsh quior to sing it . !!
redhotror 1 year ago
This song makes me more homesick than everything else put together
DRMne1 1 year ago
proud to be welsh
TheCobradude 1 year ago
TWIN TOWN!!!!
seafortha 1 year ago
I'm English and I think this song is so beautiful. All I can say is, you Welsh have a secret weapon. It is your singing. It melts English hearts. Well done. You are still rubbish at Rugby though!
AndyinMokum 1 year ago 4
27 years I was away in England not once did I return but in my heart & soul was this song now I am home. Myfanwy forgive me
30051953 1 year ago
This was my grandfathers favourite song, I can see the mountains,misty.Orion reflected in a pool, water running over granite shot with gold, the Barmouth estuary in Autumn....
ianhayden 1 year ago
i love this song wales is the best country :)
2010cariad 1 year ago
I exhausted myself trying to find the sheet music for this song and to no avail couldn't. Then one day I was playing some hymns on the the piano (I'm Mormon) and LO and Behold I played "O home Beloved" and it's the same Tune! Which is awesome and makes sense because most americans of Welsh descent are MOrmon (to my knowledge.)
peachymusic 1 year ago
There's lovely, by damn! My uncle Ted sang with the Morrison and Treorchy male voice choir many years ago.
jimincairns 1 year ago
I'm Welsh and live in Germany and cant wait to go back home.
Taffbassdrummer 1 year ago
My parents were both from Wales. They refuse to go back and they won't hear of me visiting there. This song makes me so so sad. I feel so disconnected.
punkcity 2 years ago 4
@punkcity So go anyway.They don't own you.See the country for yourself,and see how you feel.Hope you go someday,and I hope you enjoy it.
Haydyn
headhunterv2 2 years ago
Technically, they do. For another three years, anyhow.
mitchmcc420 2 years ago
Right.Then maybe you have to wait 3 years.Wales is worth the wait.Will give you time to do some research on where you want to go,what to see,etc.Something to look forward to.
headhunterv2 2 years ago
Doesn't matter where you come from - simply one of the most beautiful songs ever written. If, like me, you're a Welshman abroad, it fills you full of hiraeth. Diolch.
burgesmate 2 years ago 4
Beautiful....touches the soul of anyone.
ColonelRHS 2 years ago 4
I'm an Englishman in my 60s, and I love this song - always have from the moment I first heard it; every time I hear it, it is like the first time - lump in the throat, hairs standing up on the back of my neck! Thank you so much for posting this, and with beautiful photographs of this wonderful country.
notmuchado 2 years ago 14
Beautiful song and great choir!
Dizzma 2 years ago 6
My Dad was welsh and from the Gower great song R.I.P DadDad.
activelocks 2 years ago
i always love these, my great uncle was in the choir, he left around 94-96, but i cant find any cd's from that time. still awsome voices from an awsome country.
greets from germany from a half welsh half german.
normanvonputz 2 years ago 2
I, too, am Welsh and German. The Morriston Orpheus Choir moves me deeply, as if some ancient magnet were pulling.
jhofmann33 2 years ago
I am not Welsh...Heck, I am not even Brittish... but this song makes me homesick...for places I have never even so much as seen. Beautiful! Thank you for posting (:
Charlieparliee 2 years ago 8
I am a very English lady who does not speak Welsh (a beautiful sounding language to my ears) but this makes me cry every time. Keep singing boys. And thank you.
Insperato62 2 years ago 10
Am over seas was lovely to see this.... someone from the Upper Swansea Valleys. Thanks
Taffybfpo 2 years ago
RIP Ray Landry, ex secretary of the Morriston Orpheus,from one of his grandsons. diolch.
dbeefy 2 years ago
just spine tinglingly beautiful .. so enjoyed, thanks for posting this
xxx
truly lovely.
( and I am not welsh)
ZupaDub 2 years ago 6
It's just damned good. thats the best I can describe it.
ColonelRHS 2 years ago 5
The Hong Kong Welsh Male Voice Choir is including this in our autumn repertoire - including our first visit to Beijing - and this is definitely a model version for us!
Lyrical and perfectly understated.
ulaca 2 years ago 7
We English like to think we can be up there with the best in many things but in fairness I do not think we can equal this.Top drawer. Class!!!
acorbylad 2 years ago 38
Just cause u ain't Taffy, Paddy or Jock don't mean you ain't a Celt ............check u DNA ! Pob Hwyl ! Diolch am fawr
mush1955 2 years ago 2
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escortRS1600i 2 years ago
Thank you for this haunting and beautiful presentation! :)
oakroom48 2 years ago 6
there is nothing you can say that could ever describe the feelings within the sound of this lovely choir enters your very soul! thank god I can hear this beatiful song
redhotror 2 years ago 24
Sitting here in my California house, the photos and the singing bring me back to Wales once again. Diolch yn fawr, iawn.
brooklynnewyawk 2 years ago 5
so hauntingly beautiful
xoxcariadxox 2 years ago 6
I've heard so many versions of Myfanwy but this version is by far the best. The lyrics are enough to make you tingle but brought to life by a choir is enough to bring a tear to the eye of even the biggest, "matcho" Welshman
smokingpiglet 2 years ago 7
I got something in my eye innit !
mush1955 2 years ago 6
I'm in bits listening to this - but in a good way! Thanks from a Welshman living in England
taffboyslim 2 years ago 4
I wish the choir success, the community prosperity and the downfall of its enemies
broglie7 3 years ago 2
As beautiful as this is, I wish I could find my cd with this choir singing this song, my computer doesnt do it justice. I used to listen to it daily, the power and beauty of this song performed by this choir on the right recording is incredible, particularly in the way the bass part is so full and sweetened so perfectly by the high tenor.
griffcats 3 years ago 3
Perfection. Thanks for posting.
tjr16698 3 years ago 3
This is the best rendition i've come across on youtube of my (and my black terrier Bryn's) Welsh favourite. Bryn always sings along with me to this one. Great pictures too of a beautiful area, where i first saw the light of day.
mizofan 3 years ago 5
Myfanwy boed yr holl o'th fywyd
Dan heulwen disglair canol dydd
A boed i rosyn gwridog ienctid
I ddawnsio ganmlwydd ar dy rudd.
Aug hofiar oll o'th add ewidion
A wnest i rywun, 'ngeneth ddel
A rho dy law, Myfanwy dirion
I ddim ond dweud y gair "Ffarwel".
MehefinHeulog 3 years ago 2
MehefinHeulog 3 years ago 5
I hate the "poetic" English translations of traditional Welsh songs. The forced rhyming always requires at best moderate changing of the original meaning, and at worst completely different lines. A literal translation may not read as "poetically", but at least the meaning is untarnished.
hogofbullets 3 years ago
sorry hod, I also agree that the poetry in the original Welsh will always be far deeper...
I suppose it's a compromise with wanting to sing something in another language that still rhymes.
The above offered only as a "way in" to those for whom, like me, Cymraeg was not their first language.
MehefinHeulog 3 years ago
Watched them live in sacred heart in Morriston... my home town.
gummygimp 3 years ago
Haunting and beautiful
iain2761 3 years ago 4
I have recomended this fine video to my You Tube friends. It is one of the finest choral renditions it has been my pleasure to hear.
CanadaPisces 3 years ago 3
Magnificent.
DarrenRaleigh 3 years ago 4
Stunning perfomance.Great video. Thanks for uploading.
Dobrib 3 years ago 4
Played this at my wedding at portsmouth, still brings a tear to my eye.
lprees1968 3 years ago 2
beautiful
timsk2 3 years ago 2
Makes me proud to be Welsh and British, an awesome song sung with so much passion.
SA1Gunner 3 years ago