leith

We're playing "Cupid in a Kilt", a selection of Scottish and Irish love songs for fellow Celts with my husband on guitar, banjo, mandolin and harmonica and me on keyboard, baritone ukulele, several whistles and both of us playing spoons, washboard, and bones. Besides all their songs about battles won and lost, the Scots and the Irish seem quite romantic but we're short of Welsh love songs. Does anybody know any Welsh songs that would be OK for Valentine's Day, apart from "The Ash Grove" and "All Through the Night"?

bats

All Through the Night with The Men of Harlech? A Valentine's medley if ever there was one.

bats

Here's a list for you

http://www.ukmagic.co.uk/songs_wales.htm

Jingsamichty

"One black one, one white one, and one with a bit of....."

Proper tidy.

Oakvillian

From what little I know of the subject, the Welsh seem to have a rather different view of what constitutes a love song. The best ones all tend to be about unrequited love, untimely death, rejected advances or other equally un-Hallmark moments.

Myfanwy seems hardly to convey the appropriate sentiment for Valentine's Day, although it is lovely.
Yr Eneth gadd ei Gwrthod (apologies for probably mangled spelling) is another beautiful folky song about an unmarried pregnant teenager who drowns herself in despair. Happy laughing stuff it is not.
Maybe Dacw 'Nghariad is more traditionally sentimental... here's a recording, there may be links to other suitable stuff from here!



on edit - and here's the drowning maiden one...

bats

Something from Lindisfarne perhaps?

Oakvillian

Ahahaha. Ticks all the boxes: it did, after all, take a coal miner to find the appropriate part - he may have been Welsh

Oink

Welsh Love Song

cjones

I'll probably get the Mrs. a lovely big padded card festooned with roses, hearts and bows; with a poetic verse that proclaims my undying and eternal love for her... Or as I call it, a blow job voucher.

Pretty Flowers

I'll be at home on me lonesome, waiting for my much better half to return from India that week, after missing both Valentine's Day and my Birthday.

ultrarunner

Hmmmmmm...TMI?

Another bloated commercial gimmick geared towards 1 and only 1.......

On the bright side...price drops the next day on the inflated items

Jingsamichty

TMI? Did you not just post about getting your leg over?

So your next girlfriend is half-price?

orly

My wife goes on a trip to Myrtle Beach with her grandmother and some other relatives on the 14th. I get to work and look after the dog.

It'll likely mean, being a man, that I'll be lazy and get a pizza delivery. The dog will no doubt be delighted to eat some of the crusts. That's love.

oopsbuddy

cjones

So I take it you and Mrs. Ultrarunner won't be bothering this year then?