Welsh response to Maori welcome

Has anyone seen the Welsh response to the Maori welcome in New Zealand?

http://www.s4c.co.uk/rygbi/2011/09/maori-welcome/?lang=en

Brilliant!

Why do they keep getting short little fat blokes to "greet" teams??

I'm sick of seeing the haka already. Nice to hear some fine Welsh voices in response, excuse my ignorance but what song is it?

I think it was GSTQ.

The song is called Lawr ar Lan y Mor

On the seashore are red roses
on the seashore are white lilies
on the seashore is my darling
who sleeps at night and wakes by morning.

That's a different 'Ar Lan y Mor' surely, Cymro? It's great to hear them singing, though.

I couldn't see who was leading / doing the solo bit - any ideas?

What a truly beautiful thing.

It brought a tear to my eye

Knoyle = worst haircut.

Gats looks like a fish out of water you would have thought the pug faced gimp would have learnt the words

Why was Bill Beaumont there ?

nottins wrote:Why was Bill Beaumont there ?

Was wondering the same thing myself
http://boxscorenews.com/rwc-beaumont-enjoys-the-common-touch-p26021-68.htm

Cymroglan wrote:
On the seashore are red roses
.

Glad to see your lot supporting England

I think it means the Rose is washed up

Or the rose is sinking...

Is it Bill, it does look like him.

Maybe his got a good voice?



I bet SA will be worried after watching that! did anyone else see Adam Jones eating.

Beaumont was there as a RWC 2011 director..

http://www.rugbyworldcup.com/home/news/newsid=2048052.html

It's clearly a work of metaphorical hyperbole. Roses would never grow on a sea shore, neither would lilies. The soil conditions would be vastly too saline and far to damp, all wrong, not to mention the exposure to the harsh climatic changes. How is a lily supposed to deal with that kind of thing?

Being a keen gardner living on the coast I can assure you that roses will grow in sand the Rosa Rugusa being one variety.

Well, I stand corrected then. Am I right about the lilies?

Greyghost, who said anything about growing. The song just says they're on the seashore. Maybe they're laid as a bouquet or wreath?

Also it's 'too', not 'to'!

I got the first too right! typo! gimme a break.

If they're not growing, how did they get there? how did the singer know they'd still be there when he got back? I think the chance of the lilies still being white in that case is fairly unlikely.

In the song the flowers are used to describe his girlfriend.

I take that point Cymroglan, but if you were a girl would you really like to be compared to a fetid decaying wreath of lilies carelessly abandoned in a weather beaten wilderness while your alleged lover had run off overseas? while his closing refrain on your fairness was no more grand than remarking on the simplicity of your rudimentary nocturnal regime?

You must have confused it with another song ? he has not run off.

Perhaps my mistake. I always imagine seashore metaphors are indicative of absenteeism.

I think Brad Thorne put the roses there and the reason they grew was because they had been planted in Stuart Barnes's mouth

Well done.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ar_Lan_y_M%C3%B4r

To be fair, Welsh wins over the AB's arent just leaning towards the rare side. They are still breathing and chewing cud, as it were.
English victories over the AB's are blue and yet to go anywhere near the pan.

The song is called Lawr ar Lan y Mor and it's different (perhaps different variation) to the one Cymro is on about. Scarlets fans sing this one all the time and the first verse and chorus are briefly translated to:

I met a pretty girl
down by the sea
down by the sea
down by the sea
I met a pretty girl
down by the sea

Oh I love you,
Oh I love you,
the girl down by the sea
Oh I love you,
Oh I love you
The girl down by the sea


Now I haven't translated that properly really so apologies for that. But the second verse goes on to say how they get a kiss from the girl, and in the third verse it's about getting to marry her.

It's a traditional Welsh song and I love it, sounds and means much more in Welsh I feel, the translation just doesn't do it enough credit sorry!

rugbydreamer wrote:

It's a traditional Welsh song and I love it, sounds and means much more in Welsh I feel, the translation just doesn't do it enough credit sorry!

Just like Sosban Fach then :p

EnglishReign wrote:

rugbydreamer wrote:

It's a traditional Welsh song and I love it, sounds and means much more in Welsh I feel, the translation just doesn't do it enough credit sorry!

Just like Sosban Fach then :p

you could say so!

Well most of the current red roses washed up on the shores of Britain fairly recently

Peter Seabiscuit Wheeler wrote:Well most of the current red roses washed up on the shores of Britain fairly recently

course they seem to be a little brown and less red or lily white