Key signature: Gmajor
Submitted on August 18th 2010 by ceolachan.
This tune has been added to 10 tunebooks.
Also known as Along The Seashore, Ar Lan Y Môr, Beside The Sea, By The Seashore, Down By The Seaside, On The Seashore.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Ar Lan Y Mor
M: 3/4
L: 1/8
R: waltz
K: Gmaj
|: d2 d2 e2 | d6 | B2 c2 d2 | c2 B4 | d2 d2 e2 | d6 | B2 c2 d2 | c2 B4 |
d2 d2 e2 | d6 | B2 A2 G2 | E2 G4 | G2 G2 e2 | d6 | B2 A2 B2 | A2 G4 :|
|: d2 d3 e | d6 | B2 c3 d | cB- B4 | d2 d3 e | d6 | B2 c3 d | cB- B4 |
d2 d3 e | d6 | B2 A2 G2 | EG- G4 | G2 G3 e | d6 | B2 A3 B | AG- G4 :|
"Ar Lan Y Môr" ~ the 3/4 take on this, straight and otherwise
There's the possibility for the choice of a fermata at the end of each phrase ~
Bars 4 & 8 ~ | c2 B4- | B4 z2 ||
Bar 12 ~ | E2 G4- | G4 z2 ||
Bar 16 ~ | A2 G4- | G4 z2 |]
# Posted on August 19th 2010 by ceolachan
"Ar Lan Y Môr" ~ 4/4 takes on this and a two-part arrangement
Submitted on August 16th 2010 by dwne.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/10649
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/10649/comments
# Posted on August 19th 2010 by ceolachan
Ar Log
Ah, Ar Log. What happened to them???
I had an album which I played to death.
My wife got rid of it. Along with all the others.
Some lucky bustard got a whole collection of irish and celtic LPs from a charity shop.
# Posted on August 21st 2010 by robinlew
R lan amor
A few years a go, we got an ambitious choir leader ... wanted to enter us for the Eisteddfford (bother I can't even spell it - let alone sing at it) and we learnt this in welsh and 6 part harmony. So if the tune sounds to plain to you, let your imagination fill in a proper full welsh choir sobbing it's way through it (it's a sad song!)
# Posted on August 21st 2010 by spindizzy
Another version
the above version has become the standard version, but check out ben phillips - ben bach, singing a pembrokeshire version of the tune here http://iamtalkingtoyouhawthornbush.wordpress.com/2010/06/08/ben-bach-phillips-ar-lan-y-mor/
no need for harmony in ben's version.
spindizzy, i don't think it's a sad song, in fact it's not a song - it's penillion, or verses, so you can sing any verses you like, including comic ones as ben does - to make the story you want. but the common verses sung aren't sad either... though many a performance certainly borders on the maudlin!
# Posted on August 23rd 2010 by cerimatho
Ar Lan Y Môr
Thanks for the clip and info c, - I never knew that!
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Good to hear it sung again (we were definitely maudlin
# Posted on August 24th 2010 by spindizzy
There seem to be several text versions out there. You can hear Ioan Gruffudd recite the first three stanzas at http://www.tinopolis.com/Programmes/welshproductions/Drama/?pid=4&id=24&gid=51&vid=122
* Ar lan y môr
Ar lan y môr mae rhosys cochion
Ar lan y môr mae lilis gwynion
Ar lan y môr mae 'nghariad inne
Yn cysgu'r nos a chodi'r bore.
Ar lan y môr mae carreg wastad
Lle bûm yn siarad gair â'm cariad
O amgylch hon fe dyf y lili
Ac ambell gangen o rosmari.
Ar lan y môr mae cerrig gleision
Ar lan y môr mae blodau'r meibion
Ar lan y môr mae pob rinweddau
Ar lan y môr mae nghariad innau.
Llawn yw'r môr o swnd a chegryn
Llawn yw'r wy o wyn a melyn
Llawn yw'r coed o ddail a blode
Llawn o gariad merch wyf inne.
Mor hardd yw'r haul yn codi'r bore
Mor hardd yw'r enfys aml ei liwie
Mor hardd yw natur ym Mehefin
Ond harddwch fÿth yw wyneb Elin
* Translation: Beside the sea
Beside the sea there are red roses
Beside the sea there're lovely lillies
Beside the sea my sweetheart lives
Asleep at night and awake at morning.
Beside the sea the stones lie scattered
Where tender words in love were uttered
While all around there grew the lily
And sweet branches of rosemary
Beside the sea blue pebbles lying
Beside the sea gold flowers glowing
Beside the sea are all things fairest
Beside the sea I found my dearest
Full the sea of sand and billows
Full the egg of whites and yellows
Full the woods of leaf and flower
Full my heart of love for ever.
Fair the sun at new day’s dawning
Fair the rainbow’s colours shining
Fair the summer, fair as heaven
Fairer yet the face of Elin
# Posted on August 26th 2010 by peirol