"Men of Harlech" Choir version with lyrics
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- Опубликовано: 16 сен 2024
- Found the recording on this website: www.rorkesdrift...
Tongues of fire on Idris flaring,
News of foemen near declaring,
To heroic deeds of daring,
Call you, Harlech men.
Groans of wounded peasants dying,
Wails of wives and children flying,
For the distant succour crying,
Call you, Harlech Men.
Shall the voice of wailing,
Now be unavailing,
You to rouse, who never yet
In battle's hour were failing?
This our answer, crowds down pouring,
Swift as winter torrents roaring.
Not in vain the voice imploring
Calls on Harlech men.
Loud the martial pipes are sounding,
Every manly heart is bounding,
As our trusted chief surrounding,
March we, Harlech men.
Short the sleep the foe is taking;
Ere the morrow's morn is breaking,
They shall have a rude awakening,
Roused by Harlech Men.
Mothers, cease your weeping,
Calm may be your sleeping,
You and yours in safety now,
The Harlech men are keeping.
Ere the sun is high in heaven,
They you fear, by panic riven,
Shall, like frightened sheep, be driven,
Far, by Harlech men.
Sung in 1994 at the funeral of my godfather Wyndham David Winters MBE, who was severely wounded in the spine and paralysed for life on August 12th 1944 while serving with the 3rd Battalion Monmouthshire Regiment during Operation Bluecoat in Normandy.
RIP - and thanks for my freedom!...
thank you for your service rest easy
god bless him and all such men that lived, less we forget
I'm an ex soldier of 2 royal welsh used too be the royal regiment of Wales so let me offer you my sympathy and condolences to one more fallen welsh worrior he's having a pint with the boys right now and let me raise a glass to him as a welshman bet he was made of some tough stuff your godfather sorry for your loss
@@welshman8954 Many thanks for your comment, Dave would have appreciated it. He was certainly tough - even though confined to a wheelchair he refused to give in to his disability and was one of Britain's first paraplegic sportsmen. He represented Wales at the Stoke Mandeville Games, Commonwealth Paraplegic Games and Paralympics in the 1950s and 60s competing in both archery and fencing. His MBE was awarded in 1974 for services to the disabled in Wales.
What a song, even as a Scot this song is class.
The Sassenach are bad neighbors.
Well, the Welsh defenders of Harlech are not so dissimilar, ethnically, from Lowland Scots, especially those of the western lowlands. Yr Hen Ogledd (the Old North) and all that.
I agree. The Pipes stir my blood to battle the English... and I'm far removed by 3 generations from Scotland
Yet still the pipes swell the chest out, my step becomes more commanding. (Must be a genetic memory which in peoving under research an apparent reality in our make up) This song since I first heard it as a child watching Zulu does the same as does the pipes
i’am Manx and I think it’s a great rallying cry to everyone not just Welsh
@@alexreams1060 go and learn spanish amerigoblin
I have no connection to Wales that I can think of, yet this song still musters a sense of pride and determination in me like no other. Beautiful
My ties to Wales are very distant, my dad's family, the price family, moved from Wales to America(Pennsylvania then to Ohio where most still live and where my dad used to live) in the 1700s roughly, and before that, all I can pin down was general Price family history, I.E. descended from the Kings of Southern Wales(Deheubarth) although that is difficult to pin down because welsh history and records are an absolute mess. I really need to take an ancestry test to really know a little more about where I come from though.
Eventhough it isn't sung in the native Welsh tongue, it's just a great tribute to a nation of warriors that can loved universally.
I am English of Irish descent this song just makes me proud of my Welsh brothers and being British 🇬🇧 🏴
same
British-American Rick Rescorla, a veteran of the Vietnam War, sang a Cornish version of this song while helping to evacuate the World Trade Center during the attacks of 9/11
I wondered if anyone else remembered that.
Wow... and didn't even know there was a Cornish version
Nor me@@neatchipops3428
A legendary moment. Carries this song forward.
If he is the one I’ve heard of he continually sang up & down evacuating trapped people and went in several times until the last time he went in & never came out again. What terrific bravery! And his singing kept the people he rescued calm! God bless his soul & all those unsung heroes like him who we will never know!
What a song to gather one and all. Goosebumps cannot be avoided and proud that the Welsh are a part of Great Britain.🇬🇧
And I am proud that England is a part of Wales
Fuck england, free Wales
@@TheArgonaut540 Well, Wales was part of England for a long.
But I got it. 👍😉
@@larrygraysmith8411 as my late nain would say wales was wales when england was a pup and wales will be wales when england's buggered up
The Commonwealth. Won by the Welsh and Irish. Administered by the Scots and the spoils to England.
The Welsh are great. Gives me chills. Their songs and singing are legendary.
Trust me, we ain’t
@@Mildlyilligal Speak for yourself Slim!
@@CountvonCount33 I’m speaking for me and all the welsh culture I’ve seen, what part are you from, the valleys at least is terrible
@@Mildlyilligal The Amman Valley is far from terrible, Dafydd Iwan is from there himself.
Silures of South East Wales caused such bloodshed in the Roman ranks, the Cheifs were offered riches to settle!! To recall a quote "it on eday to conquer England and a further two hundred years in Wales" Norman Conquest.
Spine tingling heart rendering song. Means so much to those who fought in many wars.
Very proud to be a Welshman 🏴 ❤️
me too boyo but sadly living in australia ...i often wonder why
@@thecelt4807 we’ll welcome you back with open arms and a cold beer brother, home isn’t going anywhere 👊🏼 🏴
Very true
@@thecelt4807 you can take the boy out of cumry you can never take cumry out of the man there a beer waiting for your safe return CUMRY AM BYTH 🏴🇦🇺🇳🇿
Cymru am byth. Always proud of our Welsh heritage.
1939-2001 Rick Rescorla, Cornish-American legend.
Us scousers will forever love our Welsh brother and sisters over Saxon England 🙏
you dont know what you are talking about
'I SEE 452 WILLIAMS GOT IT "
"OH THATS A SHAME HE HAD A LOVELY VOICE " 🏴
Great movie...
Yes gr8 movie it's a wonder it hasn't been cancelled yet! 😄
Great movie...about an English regiment later to become Welsh. Most of the Joneses, I believe, were from Lundun, innit.
Well they've got a very good bass section mind! But no top tenors that's for sure...
Chills from this movie!!!!!
Being part Welsh, part Scottish, i love these celebrations of our heritage. Stirs the blood!
Not Welsh myself, though I came across it in my youth watching Zulu (probably as many non-Welsh people have around the world), it is still one of the most emotionally stirring songs I’ve ever heard.
Was in the schools boys choir in 1984, I sang this song. Was in standard 4. Can't forget the sound.
From South Africa
I am sure there are many men out there who experienced time in the forces whether in war or peace will like me be misty eyed as memories of the comradeship of colleagues from years ago come flooding back.
This is my regimental song 2nd battalion the Royal welsh before I left and joined the royal marines so it definitely puts a song in my heart and a tear too my eye thats a certain
Great rendition. Love the illustrations. Wish we had men like that thesr days.
Emotional song to a man who loved his Welsh Grandmother.
Too busy with their grooming and perfume and earrings to become real men. 🇬🇧🇬🇧🏴🏴🏴
if only :D
Then we should strive raise them and/or be them
We do have men like these, you just don't look for them, not that I blame you, they aren't particularly flashy
God Bless and keep all of the Men And Woman in our Military, Lets Applaud them when we see them and thank them for their
sacrifice and brevity in keeping us all safe. God bless and keep our Queen and countries and commonwealth for which she stands.
No. Do what you like with your German monarchy. Celts need to be free of you lot
👍👍👍👍🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
I love Wales! The locals were nice! The views are amazing! I went to Tywyn to ride on the Talyllyn Railway, and all i saw were amazing views and hills! I hope to go back one day... :)
Yup have to be very hard hearted not to be affected by this rendering. Anyone like me who served in the forces will have misty eyes as memories flood in of times in
Its so moving, especially the story behind amazing grace. Cheshire UK
Although I'm a Scot I love this Song, Rule Britannia from Glasgow 😎🇬🇧👍
Ironically this song was wrote during Owain Glyndwrs war of independence against England during the 12 month siege of Harlech castle.
Most beautiful 🇬🇧⚔️
0:22 people coudl fly?
Love the lyrics. Positively Homeric
I need the music sheet of these vocals! This is beautiful, magnificent!
Very moving.
Love to hear the Welsh sing mo ghille mear.
👆
I'm English but my grandfather was Welsh and in the Welsh guards this song makes me think of him and how proud I am of him ❤
Remember this song sang at a forces show in NI in the 70s, sure it was Ivor Emmanuel he came along with a few other stars of the 70s one including Jim Davidson, a great spine chilling song.
Blah, blah, blah. Point being?
Magnificent.
My Grandmother was Welsh..I am Welsh!
My twice great grandparents were Welsh as well, they immigrated to the US in the 1920s I believe
@@aaroncorbett66 Good Stuff
We will take my wifes American penfriend to Harlech Castle in July.
Americans...
Love us or hate us we know we can sing some bangers🤣🤣
love it!
excellent! from Texas
I am from Bristol. Close enough to claim this as mine.
“Nothing is so hateful as revenge,To be humane and kind and selflessly to forgive is the mark of a noble soul. Anyone who could forget this should be regarded with contempt” Our Lord Jesus gave his life for the redemption of all
listening after the queens death, Cymru am byth. Annibyniaeth.
a true welshman loves his ancestors and how they fought along side scotts, and english. A little kid on the internet becomes a nationalist running some pointless independence movement
@@freedomwhenneeded I Agree that a true love their ancestors and their allies but being allies with the english is not really by choice and I celebrate the death due to being under a rule of a dynasty of utter bastards that have enforced laws and policies over hundreds of years that has done nothing but benefit them and destroy our culture and ways of life. They drowned towns that had no say in it, they allow schools to be crushed under slags without so much as a prison sentence. They ban a language for 400 years and made it ilegal to speak in court of law for almost 400 years aswell, children were beaten if caught speaking it in schools. Since 1400 we were by law made as second class citizens in our own homes. The mythic tales and folk stories were taken as their own and stolen like with King Arthur originally being to fight against the saxons to then being an english king that fought the french. So yeah I would consider being pissed off at that is enough of a cause to be a nationalist.
But yeah I can get that to those that dont care to look through the past can see it as fruitless even when our own schools have our history stripped and we have to learn english history, but granted I can see some of the advantages of that as there were quite important events like William 1 and Tudours and Civil wars etc. but we are not even tought our side or what people/kings had to say or their thoughts / agendas on events.
Also side not I am not a kid but just fed up with the shithole that is the very obviously "fair" UK with our diminishing transport deals of the HS2 projects and now MPs within westminister is being cut down from 40 to 32 of which altogether there are 650 MPs, we now have even less say in what was already miniscule.
Plus if we do go indy then I think with a few things shifted and partnerships then we can survive on our own, hell people didnt believe Ireland would survive back in 1916 and now look at it. countries as small as us are doing fine like belgium or slovenia or even macedonia.
Hell if it fails You can say "told you so" but till then im all for independence.
"Fire in ranks! Front rank....FIRE!"
Three Welshmen with M249s. Well, calm may be my sleeping!
As welshman this is my favourite song
Where did you find the art?
@@newenglandempire4073 You should know your castles! Thats Carnarvon castle! You need an image of Harlech castle
Proudly culturally appropriated, and adapted into the 2016 G.W. Morgan sci-fi novel, 'Shatrujeet! Vanquisher of Enemies'. Harlech is changed to Tar-Lech in the novel, where it is sung by the graduating class of the Valerian Monarchy's Imperial Ecole' Militaire, and academy alumni, including the Khan himself, as a pledge to defend the weak.
Stirring anthem and sung superbly by the Welsh on every occasion , I simply love this piece of musical brilliance.....
Very poignant, particularly towards the end showing the modern British Army
The modern British army are black and asian transsexuals on hormone blockers.
Fuck the British army
Damn lovely song!
Great song for a great nation
Splendid
Cymru am byth! (Wales for Ever)
Good God, that was amazing!
I'm American by birth ,but I've always held my Welch ancestors in high regard. I didn't know this was a Welch song, till now. Thanks for the enlightenment, Great song.
A song about a siege in Wales of the Royal Castle of Harlech (built by a King of England as part of the earlier conquest of Wales) during the Wars of the Roses, a lengthy civil war between two Plantagenet (ie Norman French) families. They were vying for the throne of England and demesnes in England, France, Ireland and including the Principality of Wales. The Wars of the Roses, incidentally, had a huge impact on British culture, including wiping out many of the old Norman aristocratic families but also saw the beginnings of changes to the monarchy and rise of the power of Parliament...one of the reasons that the Colonies were not, in fact, governed by tyrannical monarch by the late eighteenth century - a series of Civil Wars and enforced changes of the crowned head over 3 centuries does does tend to do that. But that bit of history weirdly seems to be forgotten around 4 July when people try to excuse treason and collaboration with their oldest enemies against their biggest benefactor. Maybe it sounds better than "we're too cheap to repay part of the costs run up by our King to defend us in a war we started and were losing. Yeah, sure we're OK with the benefits of free land and a monopoly trade which makes some of us wealthy beyond anything we might have been in the Old Country, but we're not paying for our brother Colonials in India and the West Indies getting wealthy too".
Welsh*
Music Rousing the spirit of chivalry gallantry and daring do.
So sad that Britain has abolished itself!
Natzi politicians breaking the Great of British comradeship to feed the frenzy of the sheepish apologists who hide behind mobile phone screens.......never will they match the music and song of the proud Welsh.......
Fantastic 👏 reminds me of my time in the R W F
Ok. These are My Voices..
Off you go..❤❤❤❤❤
Now that is the Britain of the old days!
Cymru am Byth !
Loads Martini with *colonial* intent.
Oooh i like this version
As an Englishman........... I love this Song
Wrote in Harlech Castel during the 12 month siege against the English during Owain Glyndwrs war of Welsh independence
@@alynwillams4297noooooo?
You had the last line wrong its "shall like frightened sheep de driven far by Harlech men" not "forward Harlech men" besides that good job I enjoyed the artwork 👍
The last line is so Welsh. “Far like frightened sheep be driven”
Ironically this song originally was for the Welsh when they were fighting the English invaders of Wales.
What ironic about it?
The song was made between 1461-1467. While what was left of the Lancastrian army licked their wounds from Towton at Harlech castle in Wales.
Familiar with the tune, not sure where I've heard it before.
Fin the film Zulu also the slow March of the Welsh guards
@@malcolmmarshall4371 Well that would explain it. Zulu's a great movie.
It's "Far, by Harlech men" not Forward, Harlech men. Doesn't bother me, just telling you.
The Castle in the picture is Caernarfon not Harlech though?
Good bass section, but no tenors among them...
This song fits to RAF during battle of britain
Do you think the Welsh can do better than that Owen?
the welsh soldiers sung this while they zulus were charging at them
It was a good flick, but most of the soldiers were English, but who knew the words.
Yes true Welsh regiment but a mix of British at Rorke’s but that’s why we are cousins not really enemies I was in the army with Brits and few other countries too but it was the British Army 👍
@@allenomalley4014 was not a Welsh regiment at this time ,recruited in warwickshire
There were almost no Welsh men at the battle of Rorke's Drift, they were almost entirely Scottish and English.
@@plantboy6249 they were mostly English and a lot of welsh
Northern Irish Australian this lifts the heart spirt and souls.
May we never forget or dishonour our Ancesters who fought and died for our freedom and the freedom of the Jewish people.
Never again. Stand with Israel 🇮🇱
A very emotional great song to sing!!!
What a stirring song !
A graphic of the truly impressive Harlech castle would have been more fitting!
It’s a pity the Welsh soldiers don’t get the recognition they deserve. Onward Harlech men!
BEAUTIFUL !!!!!!!!!!
Crazy how this has been warped and used by the people who tried destroying the culture this song celebrates. Its highly ironic!
And the English lyrics have virtually no relation to the Welsh lyrics. I heard nothing about throwing back the Saxon invaders.
Wales independent would be poorer than Kenya.
You're an irrelevant state in the West of England and have been for 900 years, get over it.
@@russellhall4945 of course not, the Welsh were too busy beating each other up, instead of fighting the superior Angles and Saxons
@@Konstantin-nl4pp they did fight the Anglo Saxons many times, and many times they beat them. The only way the English could win, was through deceit and dishonour, we know what you did to the Welsh King, Llywelyn ap Gruffedd, you lured him into a forest under the guise of a peace treaty, and then butcher him. English were crafty, dishonest and dishonourable.
I always chuckle at the English nationalists and British Imperialists who rally behind this song. Who do they think those Harlech men were fighting against?
Goosebumps
Bloody Magnificent
Brilliant. thank you.
They've got a good bass section but they're no top tenors, that's for sure.
First Rank: FIRE! Second Rank: FIRE!!
Three cheers for The Prince of Wales.
The most Welsh person ever xd
That's soldiering!
Anyone have a craving for cheese toast ?
proud proud ENGLISH man love this come on you taffs ENGLISH SCOTISH WELSH NORTHERN IRISH LOVE MY BROTHERS
Lmao we don't feel the same way 😄
@@ashtonhawkins4639 Never had an issue with the Welsh when I’ve been there.
@@jakew7982 I'm Welsh man, I'm saying the Welsh aren't the most fond of our big suffocating neighbour is all
@@ashtonhawkins4639 Well thats a shame I am a working class English man and must have more in common with you than the 10 million + of people that have landed on our shores in the last ten years , lets stop all this marxism brain washed crap we are all proud of our individual parts of UK but can we not come together and be BRITISH
@@WELMER-by1yu would kinda like to be independent really, seems like the best way forward. Also, there isn't any issue with marxism dude, it's not brainwashing that's for sure 😂
Enjoyed subbed
Hail to the Welsh men! From a Saxon.
Great version, but i still like the film-version better. Some oldie about the Zulu wars.
Zulu. A depiction of the defence of Rorke's Drift. Unfortunately one of the (ahem) not entirely true bits was the soldiers singing this song. It was still mostly a Warwickshire/London unit at the time of the battle, not Welsh. But it had a Weish producer/leading man Stanley Baker who 'welshified' the narrative a wee bit. Quite a few other major faults in the film but it's still great.
@@BigStib Thanks! As a swede i know about the singing welsh, but not really what regiments that were in that battle. But still like the movie version better :)
@@Ecthelion1967 funnily enough it was about a C15th siege, ie a few hundred years before the lyric was written, in a civil war between two Plantagenet noble houses (ie Norman descendants) vying for the throne which included lands in France, Wales, Ireland and of course England. The siege was the longest in our history, except that for most of the time the Castle wasn't really besieged. And nothing Welsh nationalist in the mix at all really. Just a posh family fighting to get the wealth. But, hey, everyone loves a good story.
Great singing, but why is there a picture of an English regiment at 0:38 ?
A regiment that would later become a Welsh one?! The Pre Welsh history of said regiment is still celebrated.
But it's linking Rorke's Drift to Men of Harlech, and furthering the myth started by Stanley Baker.
It was still an English regiment at that time and had more Englishmen (including 7 of the 11 VCs) than Welsh (2 VCs).
They didn't sing anything, but if they had, it would have been The Warwickshire Lad.
They certainly wouldn't have sing a song which celebrates fighting the English.
@@adventussaxonum448 I agree. Thats why I despise Zulu as a Welshman with ancestry from both Nations. I'm just explaining that the History isn't wiped away when a regiment gets Moved, or re-branded. The film is as False and imaginative as Braveheart!
Did you know the Scene in Braveheart with the Irish joining up with the Scots was changed because the Irish of the time didn't want to be seen fighting for England? The real people who did that were the Welsh Archers, not the Irish.
My 4x great grandfather was in the 2/24th at Talavera in 1809 and he was very much an Englishman. The regiment has proud links to both England and Wales.
it's far by harlech men
I'm not trying to make fun of the welsh but I can barely understand what they're saying
Wait... didn't that one guy from ZF sing this song? With Womble?
Wrexham! Fe godwn ni eto! 🏴
Sovietwomble brought me here
Forward Harlech men!!!!!
pov: someone says that wales is a england
Instead posting non grammatical nonsense , try reading a history book first .
@@tonyjones7373 It was a part of England, but around 800 years ago, Wales is a country. imagine liking ur own comment lol
Henry Tudor 7th of royal Welsh blood line won the English crown using Welsh soldiers and Welsh leaders under the Welsh flag , Tudors got Scotland through marriage to join the union and and started the Golden age that made English language what it is today. If wales didn't win the crown of England, Wales wouldn't have stopped fighting and Scotland would still be fighting. There's a reason they say the Welsh do not yield 🇬🇧
@@greystonemandaniel no, only Gwynedd (Principality of Wales) has ever been a part of England. Wales as solitary nation has equal standing with England as of 1967. This is why you get the term "England and Wales" its the successor state to the Kingdom of England. Denoting equal Status!
@@Maharan169 well put, seen as the both the greatest and worst year in Welsh history.
Cette chanson est chantée par les soldats anglais dans le film : zoulous! Ç 'est un chant qui encourage les troupes, ç' est sûr!!
Welsh. Not English.
Dedication to Ben Roberts-Smith and other members of the Australian SAS presently being persecuted for doing what they were trained to.
Long live the Welsh
Uk 0:42