Caneuon y Beatles yn y Gymraeg. Pam, Duw? Pam? (Diolch Richard.)
Y Beatles
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The scary part is that if you do try singing A Day In The Life yn Gymraeg, it kinda works.
When I was a kid, I overheard this girl I fancied singing Wham's Freedom in Welsh. Well, except for the word Freedom. Something like “Roedd ddim eisiau freedom… roedd ddim eisiau chaware rownd”
Not only that, but “Day Tripper” seems to work as well. I've been looking for a cover to record.. and perhaps this might be the one.
As a matter of interest, how does “A Hard Day's Night” translate? It's not possible to translate exactly in German. (I used to be able to speak a little welsh, but I've lost it with learning German.)
Aside : Got a shock the other day when the german version of “She Loves You” popped up on autoplay (Sie liebt dich) and I realised I could understand it. All of it.
And it's a crap translation.
I'm not even sure what 'A Hard Day's Night' means in English, let along how to translate it in Welsh. Possibly 'Noson Ddydd Anodd', literally 'night of a difficult day'.
I do remember seeing, just a couple of weeks ago, on er.. Uned 5 I think, a sketch which consisted of a joscyn type sitting on his tractor going on about the hard day he'd had. It took both me and Catrin (my native-speaking fiancee) a few minutes to realise that was he was doing was reciting “A Hard Day's Night” in Welsh.
Like drains, we did.
Ha ha ha. I so would have liked to have seen that.
'Joscyn'! Wow, haven't heard that in a long time… “Hambon' was better, I think… What other similar expressions are there?
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