Key signature: Dmajor
Submitted on August 29th 2003 by dafydd.
This tune has been added to 14 tunebooks.
Also known as Chwech O Fechgyn Glân Ffri, Chwi Fechgyn Glân Ffri, Chwi Fechgyn Glan Ffri, Chwi Fechgyn Glân Ffri, Ye Young And Carefree Lads, You Carefree Young Lads.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: You Young And Carefree Lads
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Dmaj
|:dAA BGG|ABA f2e|dAA BGG|Adc d3:|
fef gfg|agf g2e|fed eAA|ABA f2e|
dAA A2d|BGG G2 E|FGA BAG|Adc d3|
Where did you get this from? What's your source?
# Posted on September 1st 2003 by Dr. Dow
You young and carefree lads
This is a Welsh jig with an Irish influence.The source is Nicholas Bennet's collection "Alawon Fy Nghwladd" (Tunes From My Country,roughly translated). Yr Hwntws recorded it on their eponymous album,and I believe that Ar Log have recorded it too.Alawon Fy Nghwladd,published in the nineteenth century contains many jigs with an Irish flavour,I can post some more,if nobody minds having Welsh jigs on a site mainly devoted to Irish music.After all,they're both Celtic countries,and Bryceiniog,the ancient king of Brecon was Irish.(Did you know that Saint Patrick was born in Wales?)
# Posted on March 1st 2003 by dafydd
You young and carefree lads
One more thing."The Galloping Stallion" which i posted a few days ago also comes from Bennet's collection.if you play it fast is does sound like a galloping horse.The Battlefield Band recorded a Scottish pipe tune which was very similar.
# Posted on March 1st 2003 by dafydd
"Blodau'r Grug: 100 Popular Welsh Folk Dance Tunes"
Selected, arranged and revised by Alex Hamilton & Robin Huw Bowen
Cymdeithas Ddawns Werin Cymru = The Welsh Folk Dance Society
1992
Page 31, tune #63:
"Chwi Fechgyn Glân Ffri" = "You Carefree Young Lads"
# Posted on December 4th 2005 by ceolachan
Yr Hwntws
The Yr Hwntws version of this jig is absolutely fantastic and can be easily found on "the Rough Guide to the Music of Wales" CD - a great CD in its own right.
# Posted on June 12th 2006 by Relic