Men of Harlech, march to glory, Victory is hov'ring o'er ye, Bright-eyed freedom stands before ye, Hear ye not her call? At your sloth she seems to wonder; Rend the sluggish bonds asunder, Let the war-cry's deaf'ning thunder Every foe appall. Echoes loudly waking, Hill and valley shaking; 'Till the sound spreads wide around, The Saxon's courage breaking; Your foes on every side assailing, Forward press with heart unfailing, 'Till invaders learn with quailing, Cambria ne'er can yield! Thou, who noble Cambria wrongest, Know that freedom's cause is strongest, Freedom's courage lasts the longest, Ending but with death! Freedom countless hosts can scatter, Freedom stoutest mail can shatter, Freedom thickest walls can batter, Fate is in her breath. See, they now are flying! Dead are heap'd with dying! Over might hath triumph'd right, Our land to foes denying; Upon their soil we never sought them, Love of conquest hither brought them, But this lesson we have taught them, "Cambria ne'er can yield!"
Ni chaiff gelyn ladd ac ymlid Harlech, Harlech, cwyd i'w herlid Y mae Rhoddwr mawr ein Rhyddid Yn rhoi nerth i ni. Wele Gymru a'i byddinoedd Yn ymdywallt o'r mynyddoedd! Rhuthrant fel rhaeadrau dyfroedd Llamant fel y lli! Llwyddiant i'n marchogion Rwystro gledd yr estron! Gwybod yn ei galon gaiff Fel bratha cleddyf Brython Y cledd yn erbyn cledd a chwery Dur yn erbyn dur a dery Wele faner Gwalia'i fyny Rhyddid aiff â hi!
My great, great, great uncle died at Rorkes Drift Pvt 801 Thomas Cole. The film has not much to do with what occurred. He caught a ricochet through the face while rescuing patients from the hospital building. He was portayed in the film on his death bed asking "why"
0:01 fun fact the reason the men are taking off their hats is because in the commonwealth armies you NEVER eat with your hat on and the reason they take them off one by one is because you can only eat when the man beside you has a plate of food
@@abrahamdozer6273 1. We weren't in the war yet bro. The UK chose to get involved, we were forced to. 2. There's almost nobody left alive for you to be mad at. 3. You should be thanking the dead dudes who you're currently mad at for saving your country.
@@BoliceOccifer No, YOU we're in the war "bro". Naziism ws widely admird in the United States. Jim Crow wasn't very different from the Nuremberg racial laws and who knows which side you were going to come in on? Thee UK went to war because the honoured their alliances. The US had no alliances at the time. Not many left. You learn a Tru Gutz Kommix dumbed down version of your actual history, now. My country was not saved by anybody, sure as shyte not the USA. Canada went to waar a week after the UK did because the Nazis were atrocious bullies who needed to be stopped. The Americans didn't have the balls ....
A battalion of The Royal Welch Fusiliers when training at Halton Camp before going to France in WW1, they lift their mascot goat to Halton Camp this later first mascot of RAF 1st School of Technical Training at RAF Halton. For the 2012 Olympics some members of the 23rd/24th Foot had a mess in RAF Halton.
Yes my father served with them as an Lt, from Meirionedd, a lot of his family did too, one was an RSM. It was his parent regiment, and was very proud of that fact. i also had a former Para (Falkland)s and 23 SAS tell me the Welsh made the best soldiers, clannish and loyal Scrappers. He was English.
@@TheJase72 warren gatland said the same about the Welsh personality, I’m from Wrexham, heartland of rwf, we’re a fighting town with a hard as nails regiment as our heartbeat
@@simonhill591 yes I know I spent a bit of time up the hill, there Hightown Barracks. My parents are from Dolgellau and Harlech Area. I went to Ysgol Gyfun llanfefni, Ynys Mon, and then Coleg in Harlech. Wish I could have joined them but family moved to the US, so I joined the US military instead. Sorry to hear they were amalgamated. cheers!
@nomad 101 Louis Barthas wrote on how it took a specific kind of morality and upbringing to make the first world war possible; which is also what made it so tragic. Similarly to how when the Soviet Union fell the future was functionally "cancelled"; so too was the Victorian conception of the world cancelled. You simply couldn't engage in the same level of thinking and attitudes that the Victorians had after WW1. If you get what I mean.
I personally don't think it sounds better, however the verses sang in Welsh on this version are probably the best verses. It's not just the same verses repeated again in Welsh, it's just the second half of the song but in Welsh, and I think those verses are written better using the lyrical sense of the Welsh language better and the contents are more rousing too. Hence why I imagine those verses are sung in Welsh for the Welsh people of a Welsh song.
@@kevinsingleton7343 No one said it wasn't, but the Welsh are British, as are the English. The Welsh are Celt and the English are Saxon, but both are British. Ergo, the British have a war song (that many many more English troops will have sang that Welsh troops, as British military regiments have long been "social concepts" rather than tribal groups, with English in Scottish regiments and vice versa) against themselves, the Saxons being about 90% of the British too.
Men of Harlech, march to glory,
Victory is hov'ring o'er ye,
Bright-eyed freedom stands before ye,
Hear ye not her call?
At your sloth she seems to wonder;
Rend the sluggish bonds asunder,
Let the war-cry's deaf'ning thunder
Every foe appall.
Echoes loudly waking,
Hill and valley shaking;
'Till the sound spreads wide around,
The Saxon's courage breaking;
Your foes on every side assailing,
Forward press with heart unfailing,
'Till invaders learn with quailing,
Cambria ne'er can yield!
Thou, who noble Cambria wrongest,
Know that freedom's cause is strongest,
Freedom's courage lasts the longest,
Ending but with death!
Freedom countless hosts can scatter,
Freedom stoutest mail can shatter,
Freedom thickest walls can batter,
Fate is in her breath.
See, they now are flying!
Dead are heap'd with dying!
Over might hath triumph'd right,
Our land to foes denying;
Upon their soil we never sought them,
Love of conquest hither brought them,
But this lesson we have taught them,
"Cambria ne'er can yield!"
Thanks the lyrics helped to understand first half of the clip.
Ni chaiff gelyn ladd ac ymlid
Harlech, Harlech, cwyd i'w herlid
Y mae Rhoddwr mawr ein Rhyddid
Yn rhoi nerth i ni.
Wele Gymru a'i byddinoedd
Yn ymdywallt o'r mynyddoedd!
Rhuthrant fel rhaeadrau dyfroedd
Llamant fel y lli!
Llwyddiant i'n marchogion
Rwystro gledd yr estron!
Gwybod yn ei galon gaiff
Fel bratha cleddyf Brython
Y cledd yn erbyn cledd a chwery
Dur yn erbyn dur a dery
Wele faner Gwalia'i fyny
Rhyddid aiff â hi!
2nd part is in welsh I believe
They've got a good bass section, mind, but no top tenors, that's for sure.
Men of Harlech stop your dreaming. Cant you see their spear point scleaming.
@@tankdk1345 See the warrior's banners streaming
To this battlefield!
My great, great, great uncle died at Rorkes Drift Pvt 801 Thomas Cole. The film has not much to do with what occurred. He caught a ricochet through the face while rescuing patients from the hospital building. He was portayed in the film on his death bed asking "why"
@@thai6989 “Sing!” “Men of Harlech stand ye steady it cannot be ever said ye!”
@@BlooMKunKy That's so interesting!
When this country was proud and patriotic we feared no one
0:01 fun fact the reason the men are taking off their hats is because in the commonwealth armies you NEVER eat with your hat on and the reason they take them off one by one is because you can only eat when the man beside you has a plate of food
Except the Grenadier Guards*
This song fits perfectly for the Royal Air Force in battle of Britain.
Sure does especially at the second half which I saw another video with the English translation.
Very STIRRING!!! From an American 'Yank' and US Navy Veteran....... I THANK those British Allies, Friends, & People of the UK!!
Where were the American "allies" in 1940 when the British Isles were under siege?
@@abrahamdozer6273
1. We weren't in the war yet bro. The UK chose to get involved, we were forced to.
2. There's almost nobody left alive for you to be mad at.
3. You should be thanking the dead dudes who you're currently mad at for saving your country.
@@BoliceOccifer No, YOU we're in the war "bro". Naziism ws widely admird in the United States. Jim Crow wasn't very different from the Nuremberg racial laws and who knows which side you were going to come in on? Thee UK went to war because the honoured their alliances. The US had no alliances at the time. Not many left. You learn a Tru Gutz Kommix dumbed down version of your actual history, now. My country was not saved by anybody, sure as shyte not the USA. Canada went to waar a week after the UK did because the Nazis were atrocious bullies who needed to be stopped. The Americans didn't have the balls ....
@@BoliceOccifer…
Johnnie come Lateley. But we did come 🇺🇲🇬🇧@@abrahamdozer6273
A battalion of The Royal Welch Fusiliers when training at Halton Camp before going to France in WW1, they lift their mascot goat to Halton Camp this later first mascot of RAF 1st School of Technical Training at RAF Halton. For the 2012 Olympics some members of the 23rd/24th Foot had a mess in RAF Halton.
The most decorated regiment in the history of the British army, Royal Welch Fusiliers. Cymru am Byth.
Yes my father served with them as an Lt, from Meirionedd, a lot of his family did too, one was an RSM. It was his parent regiment, and was very proud of that fact. i also had a former Para (Falkland)s and 23 SAS tell me the Welsh made the best soldiers, clannish and loyal Scrappers. He was English.
@@TheJase72 warren gatland said the same about the Welsh personality, I’m from Wrexham, heartland of rwf, we’re a fighting town with a hard as nails regiment as our heartbeat
@@simonhill591 yes I know I spent a bit of time up the hill, there Hightown Barracks. My parents are from Dolgellau and Harlech Area. I went to Ysgol Gyfun llanfefni, Ynys Mon, and then Coleg in Harlech. Wish I could have joined them but family moved to the US, so I joined the US military instead. Sorry to hear they were amalgamated. cheers!
My Great Great Uncle was in the Royal Welch Fusiliers, very proud of my Welsh Heritage
In the war against Germany it is natural to sing a this Celtic, and not Germanic war song.
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wonderful version...very rousing.
Cambria Never Can Yield!!!
I m from Cambria Hgts Queens. And I agree 100%🇺🇸
This is some really interesting footage that I've never seen before
Make Britain Great again.
I love this tune
Poor sods. The horror that awaited them
I love this song but WW1 was a hideous, self-inflicted wound on Western Civilization.
Could not agree more, the first world war ripped the guts out of the innocent victorian world we had before; to paraphrase Louis Barthas.
@nomad 101 Louis Barthas wrote on how it took a specific kind of morality and upbringing to make the first world war possible; which is also what made it so tragic. Similarly to how when the Soviet Union fell the future was functionally "cancelled"; so too was the Victorian conception of the world cancelled. You simply couldn't engage in the same level of thinking and attitudes that the Victorians had after WW1. If you get what I mean.
World War 1 was the self-DESTRUCTION of Western Civilization. It's been downhill ever since.
Thank you.
If I’m not mistaken the last clip shows a fairey battle aircraft taking off from a ship !? I never knew they did that
More likely to be a Fairey Firefly, a Fleet Air Arm 2 seater fighter which was devoted about the same time for the Royal Navy
Inspirational
oh there's lovely- it's in my language! Da iawn..
We need these men to defend our own iland now over a hundred years later and we are still being invaded
When this song was first performed, the English were the enemy.
Admit it. Sounds so much better in Welsh gaelic.
I personally don't think it sounds better, however the verses sang in Welsh on this version are probably the best verses. It's not just the same verses repeated again in Welsh, it's just the second half of the song but in Welsh, and I think those verses are written better using the lyrical sense of the Welsh language better and the contents are more rousing too. Hence why I imagine those verses are sung in Welsh for the Welsh people of a Welsh song.
Welsh is brythonic not gaelic
@@FinnZT It's brythonic gaelic, not goedelic.
Only the British could have a war song that is against themselves "Saxon's courage breaking"
The Welsh are not Saxons. Nor are the Scots. "British" is a social concept, not a genetic one.
@@kevinsingleton7343 No one said it wasn't, but the Welsh are British, as are the English. The Welsh are Celt and the English are Saxon, but both are British. Ergo, the British have a war song (that many many more English troops will have sang that Welsh troops, as British military regiments have long been "social concepts" rather than tribal groups, with English in Scottish regiments and vice versa) against themselves, the Saxons being about 90% of the British too.
Definitely better than the one sung in the 1964 movie "Zulu".
Unfortunately, the lads at Roukes Drift never had a full brass band to accompany them!
The lyrics are in English though.
The second half is welsh.
Silly you
Just 17 % of men eligible to fight would conscript for service shocking shows country not worth fight for
Good. I wouldn’t fight either the UK is a shambles.
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real
...would be nice without the American battleships...
Come on English patriots rise up and defeat islam we can do it
This is a Welsh song. Ironically wrote about fighting the English
How many young men were sacrified for nothing ?
How many more?
900 00 men from the empire died during ww1. Not to mention the maimed,mentally destroyed, and those who never really recovered...