List the songs that mention Welsh place names

[editor]

Extra points for obscurity!

Here's two to get you started - with a cunning bee-related theme:

We were camping down the Gower one time

Richard Thompson 'Beeswing'

'Cos cardiff ain't my home, I need to skip these towns and cities..

Sweet Baboo: Bumblebee song

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch Sunset by The Troggs

 

[Puddy_Tat]

on porthcawl sands, songdog

 

[rosa]

Wattsville Blues by the Manics. Nicky Wire having an ill-advised go at lead vocals.

 

[Kaka Tim]

Bells of Rhymney - about the newport uprising- covered by the byrds and pete seeger and (i think) the alarm - think its a trad folk song.

Name checks loads of welsh towns - and their bells!

 

[Steel Icarus]

Ride a white Swansea - T Wrexham.



I am truly sorry. It's a curse.

 

[the button]

Lass of Swansea Town -- Mike Waterson (via Phil Tanner, the gower nightingale ).

 

[1927]

Mumbles- The Boxer Simon and Garfunkel!

 

[Ted Striker]

Mr. M. Morrisons call to arms to rouse the celtic blood to his cause:

Ooooh, come on. Ooh yeah.

Well, I tried to tell you so (Yes, I did),
But I guess you didn't know,
As the sadest story goes,
Baby, now I got the flow.
'Cause I knew it from the start,
Baby, when you broke my heart,
That I had to come again,
And show you that I'm real.

You lied to me,
All those times I said that I loved you
You lied to me,
Yes, I tried, yes, I tried,
You lied to me,
Even though you know I'd die for you,
You lied to me,
Yes, I cried, yes, I cried.

Return of the Mack,
It is,
Return of the Mack,
Come on,
Return of the Mack,
Oh, my god,
You know that I'll be back
Here I am.

Return of the Mack,
Once again,
Return of the Mack,
Top of the world,
Return of the Mack,
Whatch my flow,
You know that I'll be back,
Here I go.

So, I'm back up in the game,
Running things to keep my swing,
Lettin' all the people know,
That I'm back to run the show,
'Cause what they didn't know was wrong,
And all the nasty things you've done,
So, baby, listen Caerphilly,
While I sing my comeback song.

You lied to me,
'Cause she said she'd never turn on me,
You lied to me,
But you did, but you did,
You lied to me,
All this pain you said I'd never feel
You lied to me,
but I do, but I do do do.

 

[butchersapron]

Bottleneck at Capel Curig

 

[butchersapron]

Collagen Rock - Mcluskey

And one of those bands got legs like you
And one of them got the stare
And one of those bands got found I heard
In a hole in Aberdare

 

[butchersapron]

HMHB - Floreat Inertia

I should be standing in a chaos of sunflowers
With a girl from Machynlleth
But I’m down at the Children’s Zoo
Kicking off on the goats

 

[editor]

And, err, "Didn't we have a lovely time the day we went to Bangor", Fiddlers Dram.

 

[butchersapron]

Bittersweet Symphony

No change, I can't change, I can't change, I can't change,
but I'm here in my mold , I am here in my mold

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch

Red Cave - Yesayer
Though it is the english translation (sort of) so it might not count. Hippies.

 

[sherriff rosco]

Newport....

.p.

 

[stavros]

"Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch (In Space)" EP by the Super Furries, although there isn't a title track on it.

 

[BigTom]

HMHB - Floreat Inertia

also, In Goth We Trust mentions Abersoch

 

[josef1878]

Llandudno what to do with myself - Dusty Springfield or the White Stripes

 

[the button]

Men of Harlech & Cwm Rhondda (obv).

And "Help me Rhondda" by the Beach Boys.

 

[stavros]

Anything by Wrexham-n-Effect.

 

[el-ahrairah]

Llanfwrog by Gorky's Zygotic Mynci

 

[el-ahrairah]

The Bells of Rhymney by The Alarm

Also mentions other Welsh places, so I looked it up:

O what can you give me?
Say the sad bells of Rhymney.

Is There hope for the future?
Cry the brown bells of Merthyr.

Who made the mineowner?
Say the black bells of Rhondda

And who robbed the miner?
Cry the grim bells of Blaina.

They will plunder willy-nilly
Say the bells of Caerphilly

They have fangs, they have teeth
Shout the loud bells of Neath

The south, things are sullen
Say the pink bells of Brecon

Even God is uneasy
Say the moist bells of Swansea

Put the vandals in court!
Cry the bells of Newport

All would be well if-if-if-if
Say the green bells of Cardiff

Why so worried, sisters, why?
Cry the silver bells of Wye.

O what can you give me?
Say the sad bells of Rhymney.

 

[Haller]

Bells of Rhymney - about the newport uprising- covered by the byrds and pete seeger and (i think) the alarm - think its a trad folk song.

Not a traditional song, but an adaptation of a poem by the Idris Davies, Rhymney's other great writer (apart from John Summers, obviously).

 

[Gromit]

Any GLC track.

 

[Infidel Castro]

Zabrinski reference Llansteffan in a tune that I think is called Take the Road or summat.

 

[toblerone3]

What about the well known mid Victorian song Radnorshire

"Radnorshire, poor Radnorshire,
Never a park and never a deer,
And never a man of five hundred a year
Except Sir William Fowler of Abbey Cwm-hir."

 

[Dr. Furface]

Joanna Newsom - Swansea

All these ghost towns
Wreathed in old loam
Assateague knee-
Deep in seafoam
Ho, Swansea!
Buttonwillow!
Lagunitas!
Ho, Calico!

 

[ebay sex moomin]

The lovely new one from Jonny*, ‘Candyfloss’ mentions Fishguard.





*Euros Childs from Gorky’s and Norman Blake from Teenage Fanclub

 

[Steel Icarus]

Snowdonia want me baby
Porthcawl of the wild
Llandudno limit