Rachie ( I Bob un sydd ffyddlon ) - Welsh Hymn and Rugby Song

[@retsdon]

This is the sound of my childhood, and I suppose, as a Swansea boy, it's the sound of my culture. But really, a Welsh male voice choir singing praise to the Lord itranscends the personal. It's quite simply the sound of civilization at its peak.

[@margaretharypkema9290]

That last sentence... sooo true!!!

[@malcolmgullam8348]

O take me back to the good old days when the arms park resonated with songs praising the Lord

[@malcolmgullam8348]

And by the way Aberafan were the best team in Wales

[@grahamwhitehead9175]

So inspiring! I had a Welsh landlord for the first of five years in College in Bristol and the Welsh hymns were tuned in on radio every Sunday afternoon.

[@gracielajorge9767]

Los colonos galeses trajeron al Valle del Río Chubut himnos como éste que forman parte de nuestra cultura y nos emocionan cada vez que los escuchamos.

[@peterwilliams1095]

First and foremost, this is a hymn of praise, worshipping God - and a magnificent one at that!

[@davidjohn5639]

The world's greatest and most rousing hymn. Divinely Inspired!

[@lynannbeynon8562]

Sang this on batu much on the sein with my late husband the French people clapped and cheard so we sang it again lovely memory Lyn ann

[@johnb3289]

Sang the first verses in Welsh to the curator and staff of the Welsh Pioneers museum in Trelew, Argentina last week. With my very rough translation of the call to stand for Christ, the folk at the museum were grateful and pleased for a "whiff" of Wales and the gospel of Christ that so animated the Revival.

[@estaakin8558]

💕

[@patricktobin2820]

In the mid 1960s I was working in Bridgend, a town of about 35,000 people west of Cardiff and east of Swansea. Sometimes on Friday evenings after work some of the local chaps would head off to the Bridgend Rugby Club which was situated, fittingly enough, on the Brewery Field! Anyway, when we were there I found myself singing Welsh hymns as I drank Welsh beer. The combining of hymns, beer and a pub was something I had never experienced in my native Ireland where hymns were sung only in Catholic churches at Mass or during 'evening devotions, a feature of Catholic life still remembered only by old guys like me - born in Cork City in 1938. This wonderful Welsh hymn was one of those that got the special Brewery Field treatment...

[@Randolph1233]

Patrick Tobin , Pray to end abortion. Come Lord Jesus

[@ldman100]

Beautiful, Truly Magnificent!

[@caslox]

I will always remember singing this in morning assembly in the chapel of my school, Lewis Grammar School Pengam, South Wales lovely hymn, so uplifting, thanks for uploading 3tangle3

[@GibsonFlyingFive]

Do i know you? i left in 1976

[@MsSonny13]

I love this song . I learn't is by heart aged 10 taught by our passionate Head Teacher Steven Jones (The Post) from Stanley rd Ponciau. He taught us all the harmonies too quite an accomplishment at Ysgol Ponciau Rhos in 1969.

[@margaretharypkema9290]

You had the right Head Teacher there then!! 😃👍

[@stuart3717]

Wonderful !! From your Celtic cousins in Cornwall.

[@georgehorwatt5426]

No Celts in Briton

[@georgehorwatt5426]

Again, I stand by this with irrefutable evidence and not hearsay. Not Celts, language is ancient Coelbren of the Khumry...

[@garethdavies2538]

Brings back memories of the north terrace at the old Arms Park for international matches in the 1950's, when every one knew the words and sang the hymns. St Albans band on the pitch with a brilliant conductor who kept the band in time with the crowd! Hopeless task on one occasion though---the north terrace and stand were singing Rachie {I Bob un sydd ffyddlon} while the south terrace and stand sang Calon Lan. Great experience for a teenager. Some of the games weren't bad either.

[@allenjenkins7947]

I've also heard "Onward Christian Soldiers" sung to this tune, in both English and Welsh. I find it much more impressive than the usual dirge.

[@SoundtheTrumpet2023]

I would love to hear that!!

[@Knappa22]

So true - that awful oompah-oompah St Gertrude tune doesn't compare

[@brucewilliams8714]

I heard this on a cassette tape many decades ago, but knew no Welsh. So, I worked out the metre, and searched my Methodist Hymn Book to find a matching set of words. There were two: Onward, Christian Soldiers, and Forward Be Our Watchword. I really enjoyed juggling the words and syllables to fit the tune. The bass line is a sheer delight. I'm not sure, but I think the composer named the tune after his daughter Rachel.

[@SoundtheTrumpet2023]

O waw. Jyst waw!! Am alwad hardd i fyddin Duw.

[@acefreaky4513]

To everyone who is faithful under his banner Jesus has a crown under gods safe care ....AMEN ! and god bless the Welsh people.

[@angelabuckley5816]

Amen

[@suebradford5758]

Thank you 😁🎶👍❤🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[@griffcats]

A great tune. Its a favorite at cymanfoedd yma, Diolch!

[@megcourtman2222]

This was my ring tone at one time!

[@dinkydiWelsh]

Beautiful HYMN (not a "rugby song") although it is often sung at rugby internationals. Have been singing this hymn since a child growing up in North Wales. Thank you for downloading to KZbin. Diolch in fawr iawn.

[@finnhere2]

A mighty tune indeed, 3tangle3. Thank you for sharing this!

[@stegtcymru]

mae hyn yn neud fi meddwl am adre pob tro dwin clywed fe ar ol bod yn seland newydd am 10 blynedd rwan

[@GwynEllisHughes]

Oh Nefoedd lân! Dyma un ô fy hoff emynau. Cofiaf yn felys gwasanaethau bore yn yr ysgol, buddwn yn gofyn i fy ffrind agosaf David. A oedd yn chwarae'r organ bob bore os y buasa yn gallu chwarae yr emyn hon.

[@cfitchster]

Beautiful!

[@rd998lc]

i bob sydd yn fyddlon

[@fynydydindi]

Bendigedig!

[@henryroberts1625]

Ardderchog

[@inthestates2461]

Good luck tomorrow boys. Cymru am byth !!

[@kathiebrobeck3426]

so powerful, so impassioned!

[@davidfelton1944]

'The Rhos'. The village where i was born. Beech Ave.

[@3tangle3]

+davidfelton1944 Its amazing only 100 years ago it was 95% Welsh speaking yet the Street names sound so incredibly anglicised/English (beech ave for example) Do you still hear the 'nene' Welsh dialect going back......only 40% of the area speaks Cymraeg/Welsh now

[@maryfoster5189]

My father was from Rhos and my mother from Ponciau

[@JohnPanto]

bendigedig!!

[@kathiebrobeck3426]

I don't care at all about the words: it's the tunes I love. So inspired by the spirit of God!.

[@garethifan1034]

It's the words that one should sing..Not the music!! The music is only there as accompaniment to the deep truths expressed by these hymns. The words are inspired - the music is Not!

[@levicopp3224]

@@garethifan1034 Not really. Lyrics giving praise to God and richly expressed are enhanced by inspired music. The reformer Martin Luther was a talented in music and the great composer Bach used some of his hymn melodies and lyrics in Cantatas. The most notable being " A might Fortress is our God"

[@garethifan1034]

@@levicopp3224 You make a different , but valuable point. My point referred to the over emphasis that is often found in singing to the music (as we often do in Wales) whilst forgetting or ignoring the substance of the words. The music may, on occasion be inspired, but music without words is only that..music. The words embody the soul's worship of God, therefore the music is only and always a means to an end - no more.

[@kathiebrobeck3426]

@@garethifan1034 not so. Welsh write the best tunes! I'm not a member, but am a fellow Celt. - of the Northeastern branch. .

[@davidstuart401]

God bless Cymric. Your voices proclaim a nation, a nation of great pride. And someday you will be free of the English as Scotland will be. You deserve this. God bless Cymric.

[@stuart3717]

Don't forget the Celtic cousins in Cornwall !

[@timothyphillips5043]

Thanks for that David. It will happen. slowly step by step. It will happen. We have come too far for it not to.

[@Randolph1233]

david stuart , Many folk do not want to be ‘free of the English’. The SNP are another version of Socialism which takes more tax from everyone each year. Those who commit sin are slaves to their own desires. Prayer is the currency of the believer. No matter what outfit gets into power the same laws are reinforced - nasty same sex education in primary schools , abortion , drug dealers with the police in their pockets, euthanasia around the corner. If there were ten honest men in a political party they would be worth voting for. At the moment all the parties are similar. We need a Christian conviction politician. Independence is an illusion. All we’d get is another form of Godless socialism. Pray to end abortion. Socialism is the flip side of communism - two sides of the same coin.

[@joshroberts3294]

@@Randolph1233 - you miss the point! It is up to the people who live in Scotland and Wales to determine , through a democratic vote , what colour the rosette those they appoint to lead them should be, irrespective of their nationality ,colour of skin or ability to speak their native tongue, ( although that would be better) and not the present system of the overlords in Westminster.

[@Flipdrivel]

Cymric is an English adjective. The word for Wales in the Welsh language is Cymru.

[@LadyMyrddin]

My very first Hymn learned when I was in my Junior school

[@philsthepage]

Wonderful! So uplifting. Although the great melody is by Caradog Roberts, Henry Lloyd (ap Hefin) who wrote the words, did write three verses though and I wonder why one was left out here.

[@wegladstone1967]

I agree: 'Medd-dod fel Goliath.....' This version lacks it.

[@vincentneale2620]

Some hymns are still sung at Rugby Matches the tradition comes from the 1904 revival when over 100000 of the welsh people turned to God

[@farmerlamb2372]

Cofio canu hwn yn gwasanaeth ysgol! Full pelt

[@Flipdrivel]

Thanks for supplying the lyrics, including the "Haleliwia" bit. Any chance of a credit for the choir? Not to mention the text of the second paragraph which is nicked from Wikipedia

[@bobthemusic]

da iawn boys bach.

[@pilipalod]

Rachie WAS NOT Caradog Roberts daughter. The name of the tune derives from a visit in 1918 by Caradog Roberts to the Jerusalem Chapel in Resolven.The minister of the Jerusalem chapel was Parchedig (Rev) Robert Enoch Williams His daughter was ‘'Rachie'‘ although christened ‘Rachel’. Roberts introduced his tune to the Cymanfa Ganu in Jerusalem Chapel He wrote to the Rev R.E. Williams and asked if he could name the tune after the minister’s 12 year old daughter ‘Rachie’.

[@3tangle3]

wedi newid y disgrifiad

[@SESHEKE]

That's what I also understood

[@garethifan1034]

Indeed..? I didn't know that before. As a minister I preached several times as Jerusalem, Resolfen over the years. I had no idea this hymn tune was born there.

[@davidwilliams6525]

Resolfen ydy fy pentre adre.

[@osvaldomiguel1844]

Omg I found it no way this is I found!!!

[@bethevans1996]

osvaldo Miguel Old

[@johnjones-ri2lb]

Bendigedig!!

[@graham1306]

A Rhos lad. Cymru am byth.

[@quierodesign3958]

Happy St David's Day!

[@davidjohn5639]

Wales beat Fiji RWC 2023. Time for some praise to God then.

[@blodwen6946]

I can’t imagine that today’s Rugby Fans would be able to sing this lovely hymn these days.

[@alunstewart2417]

I certainly do!

[@EmailforphonePhone]

Gwahoddiad

[@discord2571]

I Bob yn sydd fyddlon, danei faner ef. That is the start.

[@trixtwin19]

Why are so many male voice choirs dissatisfied with Roberts' closing line, and have to add the chorus from Mawlgan at the end. It spoils it for traditionalists such as myself. I love Rachie and I love Mawlgan, but seperately please.

[@geoffthomas4611]

But The Haleliwia is such a life affirmating ending to this most lovely of Welsh Hymns, it's hard to sing without smiling in sheer joy at the sound of it....I wish I had more than these poor words to express how I feel hearing and singing it, but I don't....

[@maryfoster5189]

My family is from North Wales and I'd never heard that ending on it before. Thanks, I thought I was going crazy.