[Bards] The Ultimate Cymry and Western Song

[Catrin ferch Maelgwn]

And for those of you who want the full experience (poor souls)...


It was all that I could do to keep from screamin.
But I knew it would be useless to protest,
'Cause the herald who announced me in the tourney
Never had to take pronunciation tests

You don't have to call me Edward Longshanks,
And you don't have to call me Charlemagne
You don't have to call me King Alfred, anymore.
Even when I'm fightin' with the Danes—

And you'll run this list as long as they will let you,
And you don't mind that we're standin' in the rain
You don't have to call me by my title—
You never even called me by my name.

Well I've heard my name at court, when it's been butchered,
And I've heard it shouted over a few hay bales
But the only time, I know, I’ll hear Catrin ferch Madog Maelgwn ap Llewellyn
Is when I'm Queen, and all the heralds are from Wales!

And you'll run this list as long as they will let you,
And you don't mind that we're standin' in the rain
You don't have to call me by my title--
You never even called me
(Why don't you ever call me?)
You never even called me by my naaaaaaame.


-Catrin


On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 10:41 AM, Peter Schorn <peterschorn at pdq.net> wrote:
> I heard my good friend Catrin ferch Maelgwyn perform a lovely song at
> Bordermarch Melees this year.
>
> And many people said it was the Ultimate Cymry and Western song.
>
> But upon reflection I concluded that it was not the Ultimate Cymry and
> Western song.
>
> Because it had nothing in it about:
>
> Drinking mead
> Or your liege-lord
> Or fighting the Saxons
> Or the size of your retinue
> Or the Hounds of Annwn
>
> So after due consideration I decided to rectify these omissions.
>
> And with the addition of this final verse, I believe that it is now, indeed,
> the Ultimate Cymry and Western song:
>
> I'uz drinkin' mead
> The day my liege-lord
> Took on the Saxons,
> So I went
> To meet with him
> At the front;
> But before I could get
> To the battle
> With my re-ti-nue,
> He got swept up
> By the Wild Hunt...
>
> So I'll stand around as long as you will let me,
> And I never minded singin' in the rain:
> No you don't have to call me Cadfan ap Morgan
> Godrudd
> Y'never even called me by my naaaaaammmme!
>
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