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The Four Branches
04:10
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Her white horse walking slowly
Then tied up got a beating
Charged with devouring the child
He came back there was a wailing
Branwen's half-brother
Concealed in sacks of flour
Their magic cauldron's broken now
Throw the boy into the fire
Took the severed head to London
An excellent saddle maker
Brought the seed back
Mice ate the wheat
It turned out the mouse was pregnant
Made a maiden out of blossoms
Blodeuwedd took a lover
Who could not be killed within a house
Changed his form into an eagle
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Yellow Plague
01:51
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Yellow Plague
A strange creature
Yellow hair. teeth and eyes
Gwynnedd spied through the keyhole
Of the church door and there died
Yellow Plague
A column of vapour
Spreading all along the ground
Made men faint
Women barren
No cure was ever found
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3. |
Winifred and Caradog
04:07
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Taken her vows she resisted and fled to the church
Caradog chased her and still repulsed cut off her head
Caradog wiped his sword on the grass
The head rolled down the hill to the church
Where the congregation were surprised went outside to find
Caradog and a well gushing forth where the head fell
Beyno picked up the head cursed the young man
Caradog died on the spot
Joined to the head
With a circle thin as thread round her neck
Winifred rose up as if from sleeping
Caradog's descendants cursed to bark like dogs
Winifred lived as a nun
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4. |
Merlin and Vortigern
01:49
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Upset at being told his blood was
needed tor a sacrifice
Merlin said to Vortigern
Dig beneath the foundation
Find a pool and drain the pool
You'll find two sleeping dragons
One the red and one the white
Waking up begin to light
With men of silver and a knife
Made for Druid sacrifice
Merlin in his dome of glass
Arthur buried in the pass
A heap or stones today is called
The Path of the Arrows
Young men are still sleeping there
Ring the bell and they appear
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The Wild Red Men
02:19
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The best known legend
of the Pembrokeshire valleys
The great robber clan of the wild red men
On Christmas Eve while they were at a feast
The baron attacked capturing eighty of the gang
On Christmas Day he had them all hanged
A woman came forward bearing her breasts
Said these breasts have suckled those that you are murdering
And those that will wash their hands in your blood
A year later a shower of arrows
Ambushed the baron killing all of his men
The baron was dragged down from his horse
And cut into pieces by the wild red men
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Bowl of Piss
04:20
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Using a ring of mountain ash
Keeping a bible
Nailing a horse shoe
Drawing blood
The baby in his cradle
has an old look about him
Shovel hot in the fire
Held up to the baby's face
But they draw a man in
Make him invisible
A long stick of mountain
Turn in the dancing
He came across a stag
That was being hunted
By strange dogs
With red eyes and red ears
The wicked king in his palace
Refuses to listen
Long stone walls
Beneath the sea
A hoop of fire through the night
A small man and woman
Ride the hoop through the sky
Meteor flying and falling down
She'll stay with him til he strikes
Three times tor no reason
It was many years before
The third blow was struck
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Helig Went Riding
02:59
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Helig went riding
A voice from the sky said
Vengeance is coming
Helig said when
The voice replied it will come for
your children's children's
children's grandchildren
Helig said at least it wouldn't come
for him
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8. |
The Teachings of Rhys
01:50
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These are the teachings of Rhys
The patriarch of the family
We honour our parents
We love our wives
And not the wives of our neighbours
These are the teachings of Rhys
The patriarch of the family
We do well by our children
We are never unfaithful
For a traitor would seem like a man
With the head of a devil
Holding a big knife in his hand
And all around him the family are dead
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