| Author | Topic: Add: The Heron from Brecon | |
| dmcg | Posted - 14 Jan 05 - 10:20 am | |
Down from the hills of Brecon Flew a hungry Heron, In a barrel he bumped his head, And he said, "Boom, boom, boom, boom! Apples I've hit my neck on!" Up from the barrel rising, He, most enterprising, Took the apples to market town, Knocked them down, "Boom, boom, boom, boom!" All at a price surprising. Yellow and red and dapple Every single apple Went to children who cried for more, Score by score, "Boom, boom, boom, boom!" Fast as their hands could grapple. Where there had once been many, Soon there was not any. Back the Heron flew, very proud, Shouting loud, "Boom, boom, boom, boom! One thousand for a penny!" Source: Singing Together, Spring 1973, BBC Publications Notes: Acknowledgment is made in the pamphlet to Chappell and Co. Ltd., for the English words by Carlene Mair of "The Heron of Brecon" from Album of Welsh Folk Songs. | ||
| paulflute | Posted - 18 Jan 07 - 11:17 pm | |
delighted.... I learned this in primary school but could only remember a small fraction of it.. For years I've thought perhaps the strange Heron form Brecon songs was a figment of my overactive imagination... then it popped into my head tonight... google..... and there you are.... we hey.. i'm not mad...... | ||
| ceri matho | Posted - 16 Mar 07 - 06:27 pm | |
"Deryn y Bwn o'r Banna" is the original in Welsh. 'Bittern from the Mountain tops' in translation, and this makes sense of the Bwm Bwm refrain, being the sound that bird makes. I think it was sung by John Thomas to Peter Kennedy but I may be wrong there. its certainly from the same area as Thomas - North East Wales Deryn y bwn o'r Banna Aeth i rodio'r gwylia Lle disgynodd e Ar ei ben Ar ei ben Bwm bwm bwm bwm Ond i bwn o 'fala Deryn y bwn a gododd Y 'fala i gyd a gariodd Dros y banna i farchnad Caer Farchand Caer Bwm bwm bwm bwm Ac yno'n daer fe'u gwerthodd Fala fala filoedd Fala melyn laweroedd Y plant yn gweiddi am fala'n groch Gweiddi am groch Bwm bwm bwm bwm Rhoi dima' goch am gannoedd Deryn y bwn aeth adra Yn o+l dros ben y banna Gwaeddai "Meistress O gwelwch y pres" Gwelwch y pres Bwm bwm bwm bwm A ges i wrth werthu 'fala | ||
| Jon Freeman | Posted - 16 Mar 07 - 08:58 pm | |
Hmmm. I can't have played the midi for this before or I would have recognised the tune as "Deryn y bwn o'r Banna". I probably learned that one (although as I've explain before, Welsh words rarely mean anything to me) in primary school. Interesting to know it's about a bittern, a bird I have heard (in North Norfolk where I live now) but never seen in the wild. | ||