Lyrics

Ow Thenkys y Hwortav (I Await my Fate)

Mar sev benyn dhibries dhe hanternos (If an unmarried woman stands at midnight)
Nos Wolowan (On Midsummer’s Eve)
Y’n porth eglos an bluw (In the porch of the parish church)
Gweles a wra, (She will see)
Ow mos yn keskerdh, (Going in procession)
Peub a wra treusi dhe’n nessa bewnans hevlen. (Everyone who will pass to the next life this year)

Hemm yw negys mar sad dell grysav (This is such a serious business, I believe)
Nyns eus, assay menowgh (there isn’t, a frequent attempt)
My re glewas, byttegyns (I have heard, however)
A unn vowes neb a wrug an arbrov (Of one girl who made the experiment)
Mes pub vershyon a’n hwedhel a lever (But every version of the story says)
Ow tos diwettha y’n linen geskerdh (Coming last in the procession line)
Yth esa an kethsam benyn (There was the very same woman)
Neb a sevi y’n porth (Who was standing in the porch)

A-dhia an jydh na, nyns o hi yagh (Since that day, she wasn’t in health)
Dres ogas ha bledhen y teuth ha bos klav (For almost a year she became sick)
Ha kyns unnweyth arta Golowan re dheuth (And before once again Midsummer has come)
Ryb keth porth an eglos, ynkleudhys re beu. (By the same church porch, she has been buried)

‘I await, await my fate’