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Y Blewyn Glas / The Green Blade
Alaw/Melody - Tradd./Trad.
Geiriau/Words - Tradd./Trad.

Blewyn glas ar afon Ddyfi 
(yr A B C) 
hudodd llawer buwch i foddi 
(one two three) 
bachgen glân a´m hudodd innau 
(L M N ac O P Q) 
o f´union ffordd i´w geimion lwybrau 
(R ac S a T ac U) 
 
cariad hwn a ddaeth atai’n greulon 
trwy fy nghrys ac at fy nghalon 
minnau glywais chwedl fechan 
aeth trwy flaen fy llewys allan 
 
dacw’r llwyn o fedw gleision 
dacw’r llwyn sy’n torri nghalon 
nid am y llwyn yr wy’n ochneidio 
ond am y mab a welais ynddo 
 
maent yn dwedyd y ffordd yma 
nad oes dim mor oer a´r eira 
rhof ychydig yn fy mynwes 
clywn yr eira gwyn yn gynnes 
 
blin yw caru yma ac acw 
blin bod heb y blinder hwnnw 
o´r blinderau blinaf blinder 
cur annifyr, caru’n ofer 
 
tyrd f´annwylyd, cymer frwynen 
ac ymafael yn ei deupen 
yn ei hanner torr hi’n union 
fel y torraist ti fy nghalon 

 

a green blade on the river Dyfi 
the A B C 
did enchant manys the cow to drown 
one, two, three 
a pure lad did enchant me 
L M N and O P Q 
from my true road to his crooked paths 
R and S and T and U 
 
his love came to me cruelly 
through my shirt and to my heart 
I did hear a little rumour  
it went out through my sleeve 
 
yonder’s the bush of green birch 
yonder’s the bush that breaks my heart 
it's not for the bush that I’m sighing  
but for the lad I saw within it 
 
they do say in these parts 
that there’s nothing as cold as they snow 
I put a little in my bosom 
I felt the white snow to be warm 
 
tiresome is to court here and there 
tiresome it is to be without that tiredness 
but of the tiresome things, the most tiresome -  
the painful ache of love in vain 
 
come my dear, take a reed 
and hold it at its two ends 
in half, break it truly  
like you broke my heart 

 

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