Calon Lân

"Calon Lân" (

Welsh football team in recent years. In 2007 the song was one of the traditional Welsh songs to make it to the screen in an S4C television series Codi Canu, an attempt to bring traditional four-part harmony choral singing back to the Welsh rugby terraces.^{[citation needed}

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The opening few bars of Calon Lân, sung by Stuart Burrows

In 2012, the Welsh group Only Boys Aloud sang "Calon Lân" on the British ITV show Britain's Got Talent, coming third in the final.^[3] It has since become the most watched Welsh-language video on YouTube.^{[citation needed]}

"Calon Lân" is unusual among the most popular Welsh traditional songs in that an English-language version of the words is virtually never sung (unlike, for example,

Francis Harold Rowley. Hymn 223, The English singing translation by Rees Harris (1874–1954) appeared in The Abingdon Song Book in 1937.^[5]

A Spanish-language version of the song exists,
Welsh Argentines in Y Wladfa, the former Welsh colony in Patagonia.^[7]

On 10 September 2019, the song was sung in the
members of parliament who were protesting about Brexit and the prorogation controversy.^[8]

The Calon Lân Centre is based at Mynyddbach Chapel, the burial place of Daniel James. The chapel and grounds were at the point of dereliction until 2011 but have been restored.[9]

Lyrics

Nid wy'n gofyn bywyd moethus,
Aur y byd na'i berlau mân:
Gofyn wyf am galon hapus,
Calon onest, calon lân.

Calon lân yn llawn daioni
Tecach yw na'r lili dlos:
Dim ond calon lân all ganu,
Canu'r dydd a chanu'r nos.

Pe dymunwn olud bydol,
Hedyn buan ganddo sydd;
Golud calon lân, rinweddol,
Yn dwyn bythol elw fydd.

Hwyr a bore fy nymuniad
Gwyd i'r nef ar adain cân
Ar i Dduw, er mwyn fy Ngheidwad,
Roddi i mi galon lân.

I don't ask for a luxurious life,
The world's gold or its fine pearls:
I ask for a happy heart,
An honest heart, a pure heart.

A pure heart full of goodness
Is fairer than the pretty lily:
None but a pure heart can sing,
Sing in the day and sing in the night.

If I wished for worldly wealth,
It would swiftly go to seed;
The riches of a virtuous, pure heart
Will bear eternal profit.

Evening and morning, my wish
Rising to heaven on the wing of song
For God, for the sake of my Saviour,
To give me a pure heart.

Alternative words in the Welsh version:

Verse 1, line 3: Gofyn wyf am fywyd hapus

Verse 2, line 2: Chwim adenydd iddo sydd

Verse 3, line 2: Esgyn ar adenydd cân

Chorus, line 3: Does ond calon lân all ganu

Music

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References

^ "John Hughes". Archived from the original on 27 January 2012. Retrieved 24 February 2008.

^ "Calon Lan the rugby anthem". Archived from the original on 1 April 2018. Retrieved 10 April 2018.

^ "Here's what Only Boys Aloud just sang on Britain's Got Talent". Wales Online. Media Wales. 12 May 2012.

ISBN 0-946550-01-8
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^ "I Seek Not Life's Ease and Pleasures". Hymnary.org. Retrieved 2 August 2021.

Tindle Newspaper Group
. 25 May 2007. Retrieved 3 October 2021.

Clarin Group
. 3 May 2016. Retrieved 3 October 2021.

^ "Brexit: MPs sing Calon Lân in Parliament shutdown protest". BBC News. BBC. 10 December 2019.

^ "About the Calon Lân project". Calon Lân Centre. Retrieved 8 January 2020.

External links

Learn to sing "Calon Lân" online (S4C 'Codi Canu' Welsh programme site)

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Calon_Lân&oldid=1218171503"

[1] "John Hughes". Archived from the original on 27 January 2012. Retrieved 24 February 2008.

[2] "Calon Lan the rugby anthem". Archived from the original on 1 April 2018. Retrieved 10 April 2018.

[3] "Here's what Only Boys Aloud just sang on Britain's Got Talent". Wales Online. Media Wales. 12 May 2012.

[4] ISBN 0-946550-01-8
..

[5] "I Seek Not Life's Ease and Pleasures". Hymnary.org. Retrieved 2 August 2021.

[6] Tindle Newspaper Group
. 25 May 2007. Retrieved 3 October 2021.

[7] Clarin Group
. 3 May 2016. Retrieved 3 October 2021.

[8] "Brexit: MPs sing Calon Lân in Parliament shutdown protest". BBC News. BBC. 10 December 2019.

[9] "About the Calon Lân project". Calon Lân Centre. Retrieved 8 January 2020.

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