Found this Josephine, does it help?
Gwen
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Welsh Macaronics
From: Sian
Date: 25 Nov 99 - 05:10 AM
There are quite a few: Can Merthyr - My wife did go to dinner, Cig moch a palfais wether;
She did eat the cig, gave me the cawl - A dyna'i chi ddiawl o bartner.
'Ei Di'r Deryn Du: 'Ei di'r deryn du, To my dearest love? O cais fy
nhgangen gu, For I'm so deep in love. (I like this one a lot - lovely tune, very
sad.)
And some others. The publications of the Welsh Folk Song Society are your best bet, as
they (all?) have explanatory historical notes in English and in Welsh. The above are in
Canu'r Cymry Vol 1 (ISBN 0 90042658 6. There's also a second volume (can't
remember if there are any macaronics in it). The Society has published quite a lot, so the
sources *are* available. If you have any specific queries, let me know, and I'll get
in touch with people who know these things!
You can order books from Dyfrig Thomas at
www.preseli.com/siopywerin or through the Welsh
Books Council (sorry, don't have the URL to hand)
-----E-mail d'origine-----
De : Josephine Jeremiah <jojeremiah(a)dsl.pipex.com>
A: glamorgan <glamorgan(a)rootsweb.com>
Envoyé le : Di, 27 Oct 2013 17:07
Sujet : [GLA] Ten of the best: A history of Welsh folk music tradition -- BBC article
Hi Listers,
A few days ago I read a BBC article
Ten of the best: A history of Welsh folk music tradition
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-24557218
The article prompted me to watch and enjoy the highlights of the Womex
festival's opening concert which was broadcast on the S4C television
channel last Thursday night.
My attention has been drawn to Cân Merthyr, a macaronic song, which has
lyrics in a mixture of Welsh and English.
It has made me think that family members who lived up in Merthyr during
the latter part of the 19th century may well have used a mixture of Welsh
and English in their daily language, not just a word here and there as in
Wenglish, but longer phrases and sentences mixed together.
I can't find the words for Cân Merthyr online so I must listen carefully
to the song and try to write them down.
Josephine
--
To send to the list send to glamorgan(a)rootsweb.com
GLAMORGAN Family History Mailing List archives etc. are at
http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/WLS/GLAMORGAN.html
-
This site has been prepared to help you use the Glamorgan List
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~glamorgan/
-
A large amount of information, and a wide variety of useful links, may be found
at
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/GLA/
-
The South/West Wales Lookup Exchange and Gareth's Help Pages
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~walesle/wal/AW.html and
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ukwales2/hicks.html
-------------------------------
To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GLAMORGAN-request(a)rootsweb.com
with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of
the message