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Peter Ewart
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Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2013 9:49 pm |
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I seem to remember - perhaps on the old forum - that we eventually came up with several versions, mostly emanating from the 18th or 19th centuries, although obviously based on at least one much earlier version.
The one quoted as sung years ago by the lady now in America does include the line "Men of Harlech stop your dreaming ..." - and given that Prebble, Enfield or Baker etc., also used that phrase (I think) and added "...can't you see their spearpoints gleaming" (to add a bit of immediacy?) when rewriting the lyrics to suit their film, it does suggest the version remembered above was one of those available at one time. She also includes the father-sister-brother line, albeit differently to the version Andrerw has shown above, again suggesting she remembers a distinctly different version, if not quite completely.
The only version I grew up with, long before it appeared in the film, was a parody (perhaps one of many) which my mother used to sing. Sadly, I only remember two short lines:
Ancient Briton never hit on
Anything as good as woad to sit on
Peter
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