Brenhines Aberdaron

Welsh General / Questions
#1

I heard this rather lovely song on the radio last night:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPPQb8KXSAg

It’s a song about a local character who was presumably well-known in Aberdaron, though I haven’t been able to work out anything else about the song. Anyone know anything more about it?

My attempted transcription of the words is here (please excuse the gaps/errors):

Fe gerddai i lawr i’r pentre
Bob bore’n arian byw (?)
I weld y byd a’i bethau
Lawr y rhiw, lawr y rhiw
Pob un yn ei hadbanbod
Roedd hi’n ddynes o mor glen
Mor barod ei chymwynas boed i’r ifanc neu yr hen

Ooooooh
Brenhines Aberdaron ydoedd hi
Ooooooh
Ie Cissy Morris Auntie Ciss i ni

Tu ôl drws coch tŷ’r ysgol
Fe guddiai’i phoen a’i gyd
Tywysog ei gymdogaeth
A rwygwyd am byth o’i byd
Colli mab ac ŵyr mor greulon
Colli popeth yn eu sgil
A roedd Duw yn cynnig gobaith yn y capel bob dydd Sul

(Cytgan)

Mae ysbryd ar yr rhostir
Yn y creigiau ac yn y môr
Ei chwerthiniad glyw’n yr awel
O Roshirwaun draw i’r ffordd
Yn y Ship ac yn Nhŷ Newydd
Lawr cornel bob un stryd
A thra bydd Aberdaron
Bydd ei hysbryd fyw o hyd

(Cytgan)

A heddiw yn nhŷ’r ysgol
Mae gwacter lond y lle
Ni chaf alw heibio eto
Am fara ffres i de
Llawn tlotach fydd y pentre
Heb gwmni’r ddynes fwyn
Naeth yn fawr o’r hyn na chafodd
Mor dawel a digwyn

(Cytgan)

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#2

Cissy Morris was a member of the congregation in St Hywyn’s Aberdaron as well as Chapel, before she died a few years ago. She was married to John Morris, the village headteacher who in 1977 tried to save a pupil, David Alun, caught in a rising tide but they both perished. She was known to locals as Aunty Ciss.

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#3

Ah, thanks! Sounds like she had a tough life – colli mab ac ŵyr mor greulon as well as her husband (I’m guessing ‘Tywysog ei gymdogaeth’ is John Morris?).

#4

Yes, would assume so.

#5

Thankyou for posting the lyrics

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#6

Thanks so much All.
I’ve been wondering about the chorus bit for some time and must have missed the earlier topic. I was trying to get how the “Ie Cissy Morris Auntie Ciss i ni” fitted in. That makes perfect sense now. :grinning:

So, something like “Cissy Morris was Aunty Ciss to us”.

Also just to say that Aberdaron is one of the most beautiful places that I have ever been to, apart from the parking :wink: