Only Boys Aloud - Sosban Fach (Now in HD)

[@Tocsin-Bang]

Only the Welsh could sing about saucepans and make it sound good.

[@maddoxcurtis6590]

and Mary Ann hurting her finger of course

[@LG-Musique]

@@maddoxcurtis6590don’t forget little Johnny

[@nimbler3]

I am from the Philippines and i didn't understand every single word of the song but the way they performed it and their passion is overwhelming! I am a huge fan of this group!

[@nicnam117]

You ever find out the meaning to the lyrics? ah if not it's about a Welshman's life progressively getting worse, the song's name is "The little Saucepan" which they say boils on the floor due to them being unable to have a second fire to boil it on

[@michaelwalton280]

I have been living in London for 21 years and love returning home to Ystalyfera where there is a strong and proud tradition for the Welsh language. I enjoy signing these songs and of course Welsh hymns at the end of the night ! Well done boys ! Arbennig o dda. Only boys aloud are fantastic. Diolch i chi .

[@jim1506]

Being somewhat older (about 50 years) I well remember the boring versions we did in school. Music should always be fun and full of life. This is. I used to hate Sospan Fach. Now I love it.

[@jaydenhunter648]

@@arkfan5345 my comp do this version as the start of our eistethod (excuse the spelling) and everyone shout it, but at my primary they sing the boring version and everyone would lip sync it

[@jos3ph..w]

for our sosbon Fach we have a person doing it on the violin and the three people then everyone sings it (at least thats what's we did in istedfod

[@Woo5ter]

My Dad served in the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers during WW2 with several lads from the valleys and learned this. He would often sing it around the house.

[@grandslam1998]

Bravo. Bravo. The valley boys are just top class..They show the world what is best from Wales.! We truely are THE LAND OF SONG!

[@severusvonseizberg]

It's crazy, but I love this song. Years ago I recorded an audio book of "Howl's moving castle" for my girlfriend and was courious about calcifer's song. So I searched, found "Sospan Fach", learned the tune and recorded it as theme for the audio book on my nyckelhapa. And still I'm playing "Sospan Fach" on my medieaval german bagpipe with my band. Just loving the song! ❤ Greetings from germany! Wales is great!

[@commiraid8545]

GREAT PERFORMANCE! THANK YOU VERY MUCH ! WITH LOVE FROM RUSSIA.

[@popazz1]

I am now officially in love with the Welsh language!

[@Funkopopsstorewalkthroughsunbo]

Awww bach shwmae di awn ti 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿😀

[@poppyhandsley2263]

Welsh and proud, cymru!

[@potatobrah8480]

asian but brought up welsh and proud

[@PlethOnNebulous1]

@@potatobrah8480 same

[@yamiatemyugi]

This song and Calon Lan are my favourite. The way they sing it makes it sound so haunting.

[@welshy_fireman8768]

YamiAtemYugi i quite like diolch diolch yesi, those 3 songs are the best welsh songs i ever heard. Welsh and proud. 😁😁😁

[@yamiatemyugi]

I haven't heart that one. I'll be sure to check it out. Dear god I can't believe I posted this review 2 years ago and I'm back in 2018

[@welshy_fireman8768]

I know its mad

[@Funkopopsstorewalkthroughsunbo]

Shame 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 diolch

[@geets25]

I don't understand a word, but the beauty and power of their singing needs no translation!!! Your story is very inspiring keep making the world a beautiful place!!

[@portes123321]

they are gorgeous, absolutelly breathtaking, clean cut, the perfect image we should be selling to our amazing youth throughout the world. God bless them always. amazing work.

[@surfskip863]

There are so many beautiful hyms from Wales would love to see these boys sing.

[@redhotror]

i was in the same situation in south wales in 1945 much to my regret .we learned french and latin !! can you believe it. just returned from wales two weeks ago after 50 years .i am still shedding some tears .

[@TheShR2011]

The Voices, the harmony ,the energy ! Only Boys Aloud are AMAZING. Hope ye go from strentht to strenght. An inspiration to young people !

[@Clrwtch]

Brilliant boyos. Keep it up. Wales will be rooting for you.

[@McDonaldsmuncher1944]

Me being in a welsh school choir we learnt sosban fach Also they showed this vid in one of the classes once

[@poppyevans-wilson617]

Same

[@ikilledtvguy]

Minecraft cow same

[@AndrewJamesWilliams]

I remember singing this song alongside songs like Calon Lan in school. Hearing it now brings back memories of a much simpler time in my life.

[@kellyowen6084]

i love singing in welsh/dwi yn caru canu yn cymraeg!!!!

[@foolofhearts8126]

Kelly Owen Ach mi carath canw yn Caledonaech, Caledonia ach Cymru olwyth!

[@chawks08]

dw i'n cytuno dw i'n caru ar canu yn gymraeg

[@dontmindme5290]

I love how I'm welsh yet I can barely understand the welsh written here

[@Marygs11]

Well,Sebastian,it has been a long time since I listened to this. It is still one of my favorites. I still believe if this was sung on BGT you would have beaten that dog.I miss seeing your songs but I still love you.

[@missshoes99]

These boys are all amazing at singing and its amazing what they are doing to keep these welsh songs alive... #WelshAndProud

[@cisrot]

Sang like a soviet chorus jdjdjfhdh LOVE IT ALSO reminds me of being a lil kid and singing this in assembly with the projector pointed at the big front wall

[@portes123321]

They are gorgeous, absolutelly breathtaking young men, God bless them.

[@lexiepowell3627]

Were singing this in my class for St Davids Day👍👍👍👍

[@TheGirl-wt1yx]

Lexie Powell Me Too

[@9Jayvv]

I am tomorrow

[@temujintappin]

I am Welsh so this means a lot to me 😊

[@thedisabledwelshman9266]

these guys would go down well in america...

[@kaycollarfeild]

XD

[@anonymousanonymous5832]

How?

[@Fugels]

Wales is the land of song for a reason.

[@leotaylorwelshpatriot4380]

They don't call us the land of song for nothing #Welshuntilltheend #Welshandproud

[@georgieag]

This makes me feel so proud of my country. My naina taught me this when I was 7. Great song! Anhygoel!

[@miaxrxse]

I’m learning Welsh right now and listening to this makes me happy

[@christopherchristopher1643]

The choir is simply great. I am impressed

[@donaldedward4951]

That's the way it should be sung. Diolch.

[@theicydragon1063]

See the remix version :3

[@donaldedward4951]

+The Icy Dragon Link please.

[@anonymousanonymous5832]

And too this day he is still waiting for the link

[@yukiegrandmotherofakito7547]

@@anonymousanonymous5832 also too this day.

[@xalexb08]

Boruto And Naruto Gaming and this day

[@PanhaSCU]

I think only boys aloud is going to win the Britain's got talent this year ...

[@geets25]

I have to agree!! I find myself listening to this over and over just to hear them!!

[@menelise]

I was not allowed to learn Welsh when I grew up in the Rhondda Valley in the 1950s. Went to an English language school (as all state schools were then) and missed out on a great deal. Still trying to teach myself yr hên iaith, so it's great to see these youngsters enjoying their own language. They will undoubtedly be bilingual, which means they will have the best start in life: a third language is no problem and a fourth is even easier. Da iawn, iawn.

[@BullertBull]

... my gosh, I love the language! I'm Malaysian though, speaks one of the native language in Borneo.

[@sircheese6473]

I'm glad wales is getting it's famous songs

[@AWWx2]

There was a member of OBA who was a black young man, and, if you look through all the videos on KZbin, you will find him. True, there are few people in Wales who are black, but there a few, and all the OBA choirs welcome every young man of proper age living in any of the villages where OBA practices. Neither background in the Welsh language, nor knowledge of music and singing is required.

[@menelise]

Llanelli used to have a thriving industry of making saucepans and other kitchen utensils (partly-finished steel utensils, coming from the steel industries elsewhere in South Wales came to Llanelli for finishing).

[@SuperSpringwaters]

A cook cooked in the war but Llanelli didn't want him to go. He spent a lot of the time at the pub helping the chefs. He returned to his village with a saucepan on his back.

[@mollieanna8002]

Omg so proud to be welsh love ew boys keep up the good work uv made us all proud da iawn -3 xxxx

[@rynaryna9780]

That was very fantastic I very very like it

[@Scyborg832]

this has ALWAYS been my favorite

[@ThePurpleangel1984]

I can't stop watching it best song

[@rynaryna9780]

In my school i sing that in St David day. ONLY YEAR 4 ALOUD OI OI OI

[@rustymason3860]

Cerys Matthews' version of this song is the very best ever, no question about it. Let him with wisdom hear me now.

[@kaptainkanada4363]

THANK YOU very much for that information! I will buy it!

[@charlieb.8518]

I would like to see the statistics on what the boys do after graduating from Only Boys Aloud. How many proceed with a career in music, and how many go on to college. What professions do they pursue. That would be interesting to see.

[@leonsinden7909]

SO TRUE OML PREACH🙏🙏

[@jessicaheeley]

Great song . I used to live in north Wales for 10 years and my school's were bi lingual so still can say a few things in Welsh and have the accent when saying some words :-)

[@kateyh4138]

These kids are bloody fantastic.

[@ousulivan]

beautiful!

[@sophs1912]

They are so amazing!!! And very cute!!

[@mizofan]

This is about a little saucepan boiling on the fire, a baby in a cradle and and a cat scratching little Johnny..

[@jammysinger]

This and Calon lân are my favourites. Cymru am i byth!

[@nixeblue9614]

I see this in school and I like it so much diolch yn fawr

[@marygshepherd3482]

in the words of Ronald Weasley:BRILLIANT,WICKED. very good.

[@blackftred14rose]

if you don't know the song then we cant explane the inner beauty

[@surge1927]

look in the background at 3:22. Based on my experience, black Welshmen are truly a small minority but obviously it would be great to encourage them and every other young person into representing Wales as positively as these boys are.

[@rhyfelwrDuw]

It's the language of heaven - WELSH! Whooooo hoooo! Cymru am Byth!!

[@annacrawley3071]

I heart this song it's so good

[@geets25]

Lol sounds like a fun song!! Thank you for translating the part that you did! I don't need to know the meaning I love it anyways!!

[@daveandrews5555]

One of their best 😀

[@jasonsmith1158]

BRILLIANT !!!!!!!!

[@newportdragon19mufc]

It's an old folk song, and it's small saucepan not just pan ;) And we welsh like it!

[@billguill1859]

Wish I knew the language, what they were singing [about]! Great job, as always, boys/men!!!

[@tracygaspar2276]

its welsh/yn cymru -.-

[@billguill1859]

@@tracygaspar2276 I knew that, however, I meant I wish I knew the language to know the words, and what they meant. My apologies for not being clear.

[@tracygaspar2276]

@@billguill1859 its fine but sospan is pan im from wales and im bad at welsh soi dont under stand the either xD

[@karumu8449]

@@billguill1859 I’m Welsh. It’s about a guy and his cat

[@over5808]

Makes me feel proud to be welsh

[@geets25]

: ) thank you very much!!!

[@thorbenthomas6880]

Great song in a wonderful language! I've looked up the english translation and I'm wondering about the occasions this song was sung in the old times? For any answers I write the only welsh word I know yet: Diolch!

[@secnikneza]

And yet again I regret not being Welsh. :)

[@lizardlord28]

This is class

[@ashlin56]

This should be their round two song in BGT. It's so dynamic.

[@nickirafiei5306]

can someone translate what the guy is saying at the start before introducing the choir? the only word i can recognize is cymri. keep in mind, i am not even wellsh, but i find this language very interesting. for someone who is in to music and languages, this is yet another language i am adding to my list. i can sing and speak in over 80 81 or 82 languages as of now, and wellsh is the new language being added to the list. music and languages go hand in hand for me so that's how i do it. thanks for posting, hello from an iranian woman from Sweden.

[@mlvendetta8330]

Thanking some groups (idk who he was thanking), said that these boys were representing the future of male choirs in the valleys, “you’ve probably seen them on the small screen” basically it. I’m tired so I didn’t want to translate it directly but that sums up what he says

[@nickirafiei5306]

@@mlvendetta8330 well at least it helped. thank you!

[@MissElfreda]

I sure hope so!

[@Marygs11]

everytime i watch this i am surprised at how far back the front Only Men Aloud can bend.,some farther than the younger boys. I love this song. i wish they had done it on BGT,although i think i have said that before.oh well.

[@rynaryna9780]

Ffantastig 😍😍😍😍👏👏👍👍👍

[@Freimaco]

Every now and then, there are... but it is a fact that the population of the south Wales valleys is predominently white with a generous sprinkling of distant Italian amongst grandparents and great-grandparents. We have Asian families amongst us, but there isn't a lot of employment to be had here, so anyone who would move to an area for work tends to go to the larger towns and cities.

[@1941usma]

Have they performed before the Queen yet, if not when?

[@MrJorgeumanzor]

Excelent!

[@MrJorgeumanzor]

I'm learning Welsh language now..

[@chronicbus3690]

Fantastic

[@Horyn]

tell me some please:-) I wanna hear them so I will find them.

[@bethyngalw]

we're actually having that problem in wales now, thankfully caning has gone the way of the dodo, but kids associate welsh with school, so they seldom speak it out of school. These kids haven't grown up with welsh as a symbol of nationhood and defiance against the English, they consider English a symbol of identity and defiance against the new establishment, their own administration.

[@nixeblue9614]

It's not aloud its allowed

[@helenthomas5957]

did anyone notice a girl in the video when she was singing with the boys?

[@noahflaws8767]

+Welsh Rebel actually he's neither. On his Twitter and Facebook he's married with 2 kids. So be nice!

[@melaniestevenson-davies922]

yea there is no girl

[@ewankirby2602]

I remember singing this in primary school

[@zestybutterfly7161]

Wow. They sing it like a epic National anthem, but according to wikipedia translation the lyrics are pretty nonsensical.

[@doctorfallout452]

Yeah - Google, and fair few others are bias against the Welsh. all the translations are pretty pathetic, and its such a fantastic language.

[@jadedaly3360]

Doctor Fallout I agree . MY teachers translation and Google's is very different

[@sharonsquires7877]

I live in Scotland these days and when my son was 8 he came home from school and told me they had learned a new song sospan fach in English he complained and said he liked the welsh version better They told him it was NOT a welsh song and that they had translated it from Russian

[@juilietpritchard6560]

@@sharonsquires7877 nooooooo!!!!🤣🤣🤣

[@TheMRstinks]

same!

[@aa4285]

they have a cd that will be released in Nov. preorder through Amazon.com.uk

[@maddoxcurtis6590]

in school it sounds a lot worse

[@mrwelshaviation_024]

Frfr

[@atsvshi2122]

Lol a teacher from my school is in this 🤣

[@mrwelshaviation_024]

Saucepans 🤠😩

[@jameshumphreys9715]

around 25-26 seconds in what does he say, i heard at the millennium stadium as well

[@RichardB1983]

Boneddigion a boneddigesau = Ladies & gentlemen

[@cot61ton]

Please keep this group only of those with Welsh (British) ancestry.

[@margaritashcheglova8670]

Who's here after reading Howl's Castle? Cymru am byth!))

[@francesatty7022]

me!!

[@Nonie46]

As for me, I would just imagine that the boys are singing a war song!

[@kirstylloyd20]

Cool bos

[@commesargehy9164]

this was the song i got turnt to when i was 5

[@kayleighb2106]

This is the funniest fp😂😂😂

[@mattbarrick05]

I can really hear the accents!

[@-btsbroscigaming-1262]

In my primary at the end the teacher would say OGI OGI OGI then we would say OI OI OI

[@menelise]

You can find the original words, together with an accurate translation in English, at WikiPedia: just search for Sospan Fach (sorry, but I can't post the URL here). You might be quite surprised at the words!