A simple video to illustrate the song 'The Old Carmarthen Oak' sung by the Welsh Folk Group 'Ar Log'. It is based on the Merlin legend that 'if the Old Oak should ever fall down then Carmarthen would suffer a disaster.
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@stephrichards461124 күн бұрын
I'm in Carmarthen right now listening to this :) always lifts my spirits
@stephrichards4611 Жыл бұрын
I'm from near Swansea but I love Carmarthen. I'm a fluent Welsh speaker and I feel more at home in west wales than where I live and I've worked at the schools there. Carmarthen is not too big, not too small and an amazing history as far back as the romans and the monks Lots of boutique shops and close to the sea and the hills of our fathers. I was gutted when the Uno shop closed. I loved the ambience, browsing the jewelry and sniffing the candles while everyone would literally be whispering if they needed to speak. Something really special about that place! Carmarthen has got it all.
@christinethornhill6 жыл бұрын
Really nice video , thanks for sharing . I'm pleased you gave the song in English as I can't speak Welsh , the whole story is fascinating , well done !
@oscarjohnharris50313 жыл бұрын
I love meriln
@mcgregorpiper5 күн бұрын
I was surprised that the lyrics were in English, but the clue was right there in the title.
@roBert70bro12 жыл бұрын
Great video. I was born in Carmarthen many years ago and rarely go back. Only a town council with such a long history of stupidity, and cultural and environmental vandalism (just look at the state of the castle and the hideous county offices right in the middle - to mention only the most obvious) would move the remains of the Merlin oak to a museum for a roundabout - and then put up a little tree in a tub as a replacement. The place deserves to fall down.
@richardamner74323 жыл бұрын
The council are blind, stuck up their own ar*e , tw*ts today as they were then Michael.
@mhb51812 жыл бұрын
lol this is the first time I have heard this song in english.Bendithion! (blessings)
@gwyddno110 жыл бұрын
I didn't realise Ar Log had recorded this in Foreign as well (I wore out the tape of Ar Log III with Yr Hen Dderwen Ddu on it when I was a kid). I have to say I think this is better than Frank Hennessey's original version, but as Coynantman Thomas has said, it's definitely better sung in proper (Yr Hen Dderwen Ddu).
@cymro65372 жыл бұрын
Nice song and a well edited video.I'm intrigued as to why the guy from 'Ar Log' singing this has an occasional Mid Atlantic twang with some of the words..🤭
@llainman11 жыл бұрын
Great song, better in Welsh.
@frederickbowdler8169 Жыл бұрын
been moved many times over the years i think!
@jackieroberts7895 Жыл бұрын
Cymru am byth ❤
@leighton5055998 жыл бұрын
Da iawn!
@frederickbowdler8169 Жыл бұрын
should have chipped the old wood and mulched the new oak trees to keep the history alive .