Eli Jenkins' Prayer Dylan Thomas Under Milk Wood

[@markdavies1034]

It was one of the great honours of my life to sing this beautiful number with Dunvant, as my father did also ~ may he rest in peace.

[@welshpiper62]

Nothing like the sound of a Welsh male voice choir.🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇺🇲

[@burgesmate]

Doesn't matter what part of the musical spectrum you usually listen to. This is a stunning piece of music sung by one of the best choirs in the world. Diolch yn fawr.

[@chrisdavies39]

I fail to see how anyone could feel enough animosity toward this clip to click the 'dislike' button. What a beautiful sound, Who could possibly deny that?

[@mrkey1003]

This is truth and beauty. Worldwide. Thank you Wales and Dylan for the gift you have given us. A taste of Heaven on an ever darkening Earth.

[@indiamark5625]

My grandfather is a Welshman, in a Welsh male choir in Australia. Never been to Wales, but I feel my ancestry deep in my heart listening to these voices

[@HowardEllisonUKVoice]

With his wit and compassion, Dylan Thomas dubbed reverend Eli Jenkins "a green-leaved sermon on the innocence of men". Choice of 'touch and go' is another nugget of comedic genius. Oh to know how the wonderful Mr Thomas might have lampooned the choir's wind-flapped trousers! Beautiful singing from Dunvant. Yes, brings a tear to a quarter-Welsh eye.

[@valleylad12345]

i live in treorchy and im a fan of the treorchy male voive choir. and now im a big fan of the dunvant choir

[@miriamdowney5223]

It's suitably humbling to hear DTs great words in this era of human pride and hubris. If everyone went to rest each evening with these thoughts - that 'we have no say in whether tomorrow will come or not' and have a little humility at our human frailty, the world would be a better place I think.

[@beaubarri2243]

You think correctly.

[@peterflowerdew9221]

what can I say, truly beautiful. A fitting finale to Dylan Thomas's portrait on Ch 4 Bring tears to any welshman.

[@San-th9rg]

To any bloody Scotsmen and all.....

[@alexodonnell6191]

We are all Welshmen&Women whenever we listen to this ...Beauty on So many levels.... This hymn/anthem/song has seen me through a lot and continues to do so... Immense gratitude to you for the upload, to dear Dylan for Llareggub and much MUCH more, to God for letting me see another day and to my friends for their wonderful support.It truly is WONDERFUL world....

[@fritula6200]

Alex, what a truly beautiful comment. May God bless you and your family.

[@fritula6200]

Such beautiful comments throughout this whole video. They are on a different level of language and expressions of love of the Welsh. Truly touching !

[@penrhynian1]

This reminds me of the psalms I used to chant in the Church of England choir I was in. Then I read "Under Milk Wood". Then when we retired we moved to Wales at last. At last I feel at home.

[@jonathandavies5532]

If you feel at home, then you are at home. Croeso.

[@MrWilliamBlessing]

This is now the adopted song of Bristol Rugby Club. Thank you for giving us such a lovely song, poem and Hymn. Bristol Rugby Club.

[@lindalowerson8438]

Wonderful wonderful. I only discovered this and the Dunvant male choir yesterday due to a cousin visiting who sings in this choir. Have watched it 8 times already! Thank you so much. Even though it makes me cry!

[@cestrian2024]

You might like to listen to The City of Chester Male Voice Choir's version with Cyril Thomas narrating brilliantly. Cyril is the oldest surviving though now retired member and is currently rather Ill. We are all thinking of him at this time

[@geraintlewis1609]

So many memories of my Nan came flooding back to me yesterday when i heard this for the first time in 20 years. A wonderfully moving song.

[@larzkins]

Ineffably beautiful. This made me cry -

[@activelocks]

i love this song my dad came from Dunvant lovely RIP dad dad.

[@andyrawn]

D ~ Here you are talking my language ~ this selection, its heartfelt singing and almost equally awesome aerial photography make for a PERFECT moment of nostalgia. And ~ even from boyhood, and a guiding factor in my my own career ~ a growing hunger for nostalgia and for its expression has been & always is an underlying part of singing. Bravo to You for this Video! A

[@Teddyb1939]

I listen to this a lot and never ever want it to finish,beautiful.

[@bladder7000]

Perfect! It stopped me in my tracks and brought a tear to my eye.

[@Thomas-gn9bv]

Those who sing pray twice ( St. Augustin)

[@Teddyb1939]

One of the most beautiful things I have ever heard and I am a bit long in the tooth and have heard plenty,Many thanks for this magig sound.

[@TheSteveFB]

Gorgeous! Great voices; beautiful harmony; delicious cinematography all glorifying one of the high points of Under Milk Wood. Please show us Tom Jones performing 'Come and sweep my chimbley'.

[@sandiandstevie]

Beautiful! Worm's Head is one of my favorite places in the world too - I have often walked there - it's peaceful. Worm's Head is very much like Point Reyes National Seashore in California, where I now live. Beautiful rendition of the song.

[@DaMum]

Lovely sung and very touching. Thank you!

[@helmllwyn]

Lovely , Absolutely Lovely ! Well Done Boys. I have just had the last two lines of this poem enscribed on my Father's headstone, installed yesterday. He was always reciting this poem,. . . in fact, he could recite the whole of Under Milk Wood from memory, without a word out of place , at 89 years old !. Thank You for this beautifull and thoughtful recording. From the accompanist of Cor Meibion Y Brythoniaid

[@griffcats]

I heard the dunvant live in the U.S. years ago, and I am thankful for this video,and chance to hear them again, very well done and beautiful it is, diolch

[@oehaaa]

Wales will be allways at my heart.

[@simondavies3324]

Just a wonderfully beautiful piece of music enhanced by the sight of Worm's Head.

[@bobapbob5812]

One of the best.

[@clive2677]

Probably the finest wordsmith portrayed by this humble but wonderful choir.

[@katycoyote]

at my funeral please xx fantastic

[@burdy1967]

Incredible! To combine my favourite piece of Dylan, with the backdrop of my favourite place in the whole world!....Llangenith and the King's Head I love you! Cymru am Bythe

[@JackFirebrace1917]

I remember Max Boyce closing his concerts with this.

[@nicoalphalpha]

It is said by The Rev. Eli Jenkins in "Under Milk Wood" It was later put to music.

[@nmuphelps1]

It is indeed! I was lucky enough to hear it originally broadcast on the wireless!

[@Teddyb1939]

This is Magical.

[@mikecymro]

Tuesday 21 October 2014. I found this after watching the tear jerker in Our Girl TV episode 5: "Captain James'" speech at "Smurf's" funeral at 48:00 minutes into this episode. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b04mltl2/our-girl-series-1-episode-5 . Listening to the Dunvant Male Voice Choir brought on the waterworks.

[@patricktobin2820]

Every morning when I wake,
 Dear Lord, a little prayer I make,
 O please do keep Thy lovely eye
 On all poor creatures born to die And every evening at sun-down
 I ask a blessing on the town,
 For whether we last the night or no 
I’m sure is always touch-and-go. We are not wholly bad or good 
Who live our lives under Milk Wood,
 And Thou, I know, wilt be the first
 To see our best side, not our worst. O let us see another day! 
Bless us all this night, I pray,
 And to the sun we all will bow
 And say, good-bye - but just for now!

[@cestrian2024]

You might like to listen to The City of Chester Male Voice Choir's version with Cyril Thomas narrating brilliantly. Cyril is the oldest surviving though now retired member and is currently rather Ill. We are all thinking of him at this time

[@nmuphelps1]

Thank you for so beautifully printing this inexppressibly beautiful piece!!!

[@richH1625]

Beautifully sung. Terrific. I'll have to go and look at the words again now because I must confess that when I've read it in UMW I've always heard in my head a rather frightened preacher, rather humorously/timidly saying the lines "For whether we last the night or no I'm sure is always... touch-and-go." & "...And say, good-bye - but just for now!"

[@SpeegBJ]

Still the best version, gentlemen!

[@kevinastraw]

I've never thought of this as a satire. My feeling is that Thomas loved the people he protrayed; all human life is there from the poet to the poisoner, yet he loved them all.

[@Tocsin-Bang]

To quote my Aunt Evelyn from the Rhondda, "There's lovely boys."

[@fritula6200]

The message of the play: "Under Milk Wood" by Welshman Dylan Thomas: b: 1914-1954: It recognises the goodness that people are capable of, and the warmth, friendship, family and community that can still bind us together. The hymn in the video was sung in 1994: in the background at Rhossili Bay:

[@MrWilliamBlessing]

So good.

[@dunvantmalechoir7196]

Have you got Dunvant Choir's latest audio double CD entitled "Prince of the Apple Towns". A Celebration of Dylan Thomas through Words and Music. It includes the meliflous voice of Barry Evans reading an except from Uder Milk Wood to the strains of Rev. Eli Jenkins' Prayer. See website www.dunvantchoir.org for details.

[@m41incanis]

As I said on the Welsh version, absolutely beautiful. Diolch.

[@MrWilliamBlessing]

Praise be to the Lord

[@danielgarton5157]

Rest In Peace Granddad - Gwyn Davies

[@burgesmate]

ineffably sublime. Cymru am byth!

[@3tangle3]

@kevinastraw it was meant to be a harmless satire of the proud welsh male choir

[@grandslam1998]

Bravo Bravo

[@kevinastraw]

@3tangle3 What it was meant to be, and what it is, then, are two different things. This is not a satire.

[@cestrian2024]

A good version. Have you heard the version by The City of Chester Male Voice Choir with Cyril Thomas narrating? it's to be recommended

[@haspelstr6]

Please send my the partituur

[@peterawilliams]

The bass is extremely good....although when we as choir sing outside it is not the same as a studio recordings

[@ianskidmore]

It is worth pointing out that Dylan Thomas intended this prayer as a satire on prosy mehodist preachers. That takes nothing from the magical sound of this fine choir

[@LiturgicalChants]

Either the Rimsky Korsakov have copied this or else the Anglicans copied the Russian Orthodox Polyphony

[@jonathandavies5532]

Ardderchog. Mellifluous, (Mel = Honey) - makes you proud to be Welsh. Cymru am Byth.

[@Cadwaladr2012]

satire doesnt need neccessarily to have negative connotations ;)......dylan enjoyed his surroundings

[@3tangle3]

@kevinastraw I would nt care either way I still enjoy listening to it whatever....bigger fish to fry in this world like science research to care about bach :D

[@grandslam1998]

Proper Tidy!

[@nelliemoser1]

That was lovely but the poor choir looked frozen.

[@fatherrowan]

This titled wrongly for it surely is NOT from Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood. It is a hymn!

[@sylviawilliams2529]

IT CERTAINLY is from Under Milk wood but as prose..the music was later added (written by Elton John) for George Martin's musical version. of Under Milk Wood

[@stuartjones3528]

The Rev Eli Jenkins prayer in Undermilkwood put to music.

[@3tangle3]

The Brythonic peoples are the best :) Falch o fod yn Gymro