@@Doug791 Exile can be voluntary or like Napoleon, imposed. Mine was voluntary and I suspect for most Welsh people living abroad (the first generation, that is), when they feel the "hwyl" in the hymns, the nostalgia for the "home" country is overwhelming.
Not really. They were hard times. It would just after these times that they started shutting mines, youngsters couldn't find work, in the mines there was. nothing else for them in Wales. Both sides of my family moved to the Midlands, where my parents met. I found through a search that 2 generations back my Great Grandparents lived next door to each other. Yet my parents had to meet in the Midlands.
Iris Collins. I don’t know any miners but I do know mining is a dirty dangerous job and miners are a breed apart. Obviously your parents were destined to meet somewhere, sometime. I hope they were/are happy together.
Indeed, the price of German ww1 reparations. Plenty of industry was encouraged to set up in the Valleys but today they're gone along with the grammar schools leaving a long commute to Cardiff office jobs or a life on welfare under one party devolved government.
I was a little boy when I saw this born in Manchester Lancashire UK I cried my eyes out then now I am a retired priest of 70 years old and I am still crying my eyes out thank you for sharing .when this was showing my mother and grandmother and grandfather were all alive and active now they are in heaven with the living god waiting for me. God Bless you and all you love this blessing I give to all who visit this page as the tears run down my face thank you for the memories Father Charles Anderson
Awakened regenerated by Holy Spirit filled believers from Lonlas Gospel Mission. Who listened and accepted me unconditionally. . . And wrestling in prayer they died daily, so Christ would be established in my heart and conscience. Many more faithful intercessors are my betters for I'm privileged to share that I'm flawed and talk with a lack of condemnation for the new creation is still a work of a pilgrim's progress. Thanks be to God, He never slumbers or sleeps and has true shepherds caring for His flock so they Rock their immortal soul in the bosom of Abraham.
@@StanleypeterDickinson Your text was written by a man who truly knows the redemptive work of The Spirit of The Living God. Reading your text, has so stirred my Spirit, and brought flooding back memories of my childhood in The Bible College of Wales. You spoke of intercessors, which became the call of God on my young life. Like young Samuel with Eli in scripture, I sat at the age of nine at the feet of intercessor Samuel Rees Howells, who also was Principle of The Bible College of Wales. Many years have now passed and I am now almost 70 years of age. I continue to follow in the footsteps The Master has laid before me and I also follow after my earthly father, who now worships at The Feet of The King of Kings. Intercession has always been my heartbeat, with my missionary heart breaking for The First Nation Indians of Canada. My dear Brother in Christ, I encourage you to continue to LOVE our Saviour with the same passion you have previously expressed. You have blessed me beyond measure tonight here in Northern Ireland. May The Peace of God truly garrison your heart, mind and Spirit. Yours in Christ E.J. Hyslop (Edward)
I’m half Welsh living in ‘New South Wales’ Australia...... my father was a South Welshman, his father and two cousins died in the mines. Their voices melt my soul and I’m so proud of my heritage Cymru am byth 🏴❤️
This is a sad song of a man who has lost his love and only wants to hold her hand one last time to say farewell. To me it's even sadder because it reminds me of my mother, whose name was Myfanwy. It never fails to bring me to tears.
What so many people do not know is that many, if not most, of the male singers in this movie were from the Welsh Presbyterian Church of Los Angeles. The last singer in that portion of the cast died just a couple of years ago.
well if you read comments, someone wrote the same thing 12 years ago. I guess just because they must have thought people stupid, they added that the Welsh Church was mmmmm Welsh…lest we were so stupid and thought them Irish or Scottish😂
People dont get on....Because conflict is the preferred route to survival by the naked ape still bloodied in fang. Even the christian lord said that he came not to bring peace but war. Mainly why we have so many neighbourhood conflicts ( some ending in death) about fences is because neighbours don't love each other but act only in their own interests. The main and majority of religions of the world bring on so much inconsideration and greed but always purport that love❤ is their way and that love is better than the sword.Just look at how Christians hate Jews and Arabs for instance. There are people in the world that care for others but they're in the minority. Yes take care... stay strong help others and try to good in the world....I DARE YOU!. G'day from Australia 🇦🇺.
I recently went to the emergency department of a hospital and, to my great surprise, was admitted for surgery. I'd been unable to contact anyone for some time, so my neighbours were worried about my apparent disappearance. When I eventually came home, it took me over 20 minutes to get in the house because my neighbours all came to see me as soon as I got out of the taxi. I felt like a celebrity, and was overwhelmed by the offers of help, and by the amount of goodwill that I felt. This did not happen in a village, but in a bustling multicultural area of a city. There are still lots of good people around, caring and generous people.
I've just found this video - although I've heard the song many times. My name is Myfanwy. I was born in Zimbabwe (Rhodesia) then. My dad was Welsh, he was a gunner in WW2 in the RAF. Sadly I've only been to Wales once and I loved it. I'm in Essex. My heart's desire has always been to live in Wales. My Welsh roots are very important to me. Listening to this song makes me miss my dad too.
Essex isn't THAT far from Wales, get your skates on, merch (girl) and go! I've always regarded Wales as my "spiritual" home, especially the north. Love it there. I've climbed (ropes), trekked & travelled all over it and NEVER tire of it. A beautiful country. So what are you waiting for GO! On the.... B.5070 (Which used to be the A.5 before the bypass was built), there's a large sign, "Croeso I Cymru". When I used to pass it I knew I was home and it ALWAYS made me smile. I still go that way, sometimes, just to see it. Sadly, due to circumstances, I can't go and live there. If I could, I'd go tomorrow!😢
Chapel singing on a Sunday where you heard everyone harmonise easily take the descant of the hymns sung, in their stride. No practice ever, just natural beauty of their voices. Ladies, always with with hat and gloves on, men, clean shirts, polished shoes such are my memories as a child
That is so true and has brought back a school memory. When I was in Mynyddbach back in the 60s a small group of us used to sing the latest pop songs a capella in the break time (sitting on the radiator). Our favorite was "Rag Doll" because the harmonisation was quite a challenge. Such simple pleasures..... sigh sigh... and my auntie never learned the piano but played by ear (every home had one - a piano that is not an ear LOL). She played for ballet school, but we all used to collect around the piano and say... for example..; Can you play My Way? and off she would go, sometimes stopping because it wasn't the right key (all by ear - no music sheet) and we'd sing along around the piano. And then everybody was chucking out the piano and today it costs a fortune... what a crazy world.
I remember watching this beautiful film as a child, I never forgot the beautiful Welsh voices so incredibly talented. It made a huge impact on me and I imagine Heaven's Choir to be just like it.
Yes - Saturday afternoon on a rainy day in winter - watched it as a child too. I was just then thinking the same - I imagine Heaven's Choir to be just like this.
Oh dad i still feel your prescence when i see films in black n white of the valleys ,even though you lived in england with your soul mate of 72 years ,wales and Treorchy and merthyr was your true home ,and me i was born in birmingham ,but wales was always my first home to me i loved it so much ,god bless boyo ronald xx
I just found this on here and I started listening to them singing Mafanwy, it was my mothers favourite song one which she used to sing, tears streaming down my face I thought of her who passed many years ago but never forgotten. It was very moving for me. What a beautiful welsh song. Xx proud to be welsh xx
Memories, memories. Days gone by when the world was slower and life more simple. Children played outside for most of the day - and were safe. Telly was in it’s infancy. No computers. No one had a phone, let alone a car. You walked to the Doctor and waited 5 or 10 minutes to see him, no receptionist. You took a bus into town, one or another came along every 10 minutes. Trains were a joke, dirty and rarely on time but steam engines just part of life at the time. Milkman delivered your milk everyday. Baker came once a week. Coalman when you needed him. Dustbin men once a week and took your metal bin and emptied it into the lorry. Free NHS and if you went to hospital you did as you were told. Nit Nurses visited schools. Miners strikes every Winter with power cuts, so sitting in front of a coal fire with candles for light. Teachers had canes and very occaisionally used them ( on boys ). Blankets, Eiderdowns and stone hot water bottles in beds. Yes, a good childhood and schooldays and Mum’s lovely cooking. All the good old English staples.
but workers were not safe. not a bit of it. toiling away without safety or showers for a bare pittance. no alternative. they banded together and helped each other. look up the tredegar medical aid society, on which aneurin bevan based the nhs
What a director Ford was - an unashamedly sentimental scene, like so many others in this great film, but he knew exactly how to pull the heartstrings then, now and forever.
This is what you call a great film.This is when the family could sit together and enjoy a film a song beautifully sang always get chocked up when sang.
I saw this film when I was a little girl and I still cry when I see this. I love Welsh choirs and this song in particularly. I am Dutch and I live in The Netherlands. I was in Wales a few times and I love it.
The roots of the voices of Wales, could be from ancient of days, The choirs of the Temple, the Levites , those who were not slaughtered by the Roman's, could have been amongst those taken as slaves to the tin and copper mines of the Welsh coast, Rome had outposts there, and after Romes fall, many slaves made their way to Scotland and Ireland, DNA results reveal Mediterranean ancestry in a lot of CELTIC regions, , The Welsh language, is very close to Hebrew , as well ❤
Makes me cry every time!! Technically, I am "half" Welsh- my mother moved to England at the age of 7, but spiritually, my God, Wales is home!!! The brave family members both myself and others have lost to these mines and those like them will never be forgotten.
Same for me. I was born in Brooklyn, NY and grew up speaking Welsh because my Mam and Mamgu spoke it every day, all the time. Only switched to Sais when my Dad was home. I LOVE the sound of Cymraeg.
I loved this magnificent film. The acting was superb and my god!! the Welsh sure can sing. I still cry watching " How Green Was My Valley" and I'm 67 years old. '
The entire cast is brilliant and it is my favorite John Ford directed movie. Yes, it beat out "Citizen Kane" for best picture. As many times as I've seen "Citizen Kane," I've never LOVED it. I LOVE "How Green Is My Valley." Each viewing becomes richer, deeper and more moving.
Of course, in retrospect: why would, so shortly after all the hardships of the Great Depression, a movie about an unhappy rich person win against a sentimental and beautifully made film about poor people who hold together? Only film students don't get it. Same happened with Million Dollar Baby against the Aviator in 2004
Donald Crisp and Sara Allgood, two of my favorites, from How Green Was My Valley and the splendid Welsh singing which always makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up! This is wonderful!
Very moving and much appreciated by a London Welshman 🏴 my mother's family all Welsh miners , lead miners from West Wales and colliers from the Rhondda valley. A shame that they couldn't cast a Welshwoman with an authentic accent & Welsh speaker. Great film though and very evovative of the solidarity and the non conformist socialism of South Wales, finally diluted by the brutal Thatcherism of the 1980s
This reminds me of my late father Brian Reed who had an excellent tenor singing voice , almost as good as Mario Lanza . Also of my granfather Clifford Reed of Cwm who started out as a coal hewer and eventually ended up in a mines rescue team in the Valleys . Very proud of both their life achievements . Rest in Eternal Peace .
An absolutely beautiful film, never fails to bring tears to my eyes. Being English I still think that the vast majority of Welsh people are lovely people in a lovely country.
What a beautiful message from you. I am from deepest South Wales where I learned Welsh as a first language. But you are my neighbour's John and in God's eyes we are brother's and sisters.
My mother was a mixture,born in Canada of an Australian mother & a Welshman from Llandrilla. She arrived in OZ at 14mths old where she lived the rest of her life.She knew no Welsh nor do I, apart from her name, Myfanwy Roberts.Whenever I hear this song, from this movie or by a Welsh choir,it brings tears readily to my eyes.It's a beautiful song of a lost love,that evokes memories of the face of that little red haired Welsh girl, who was my mum. Os mai dim ond gallwn cusanu 'ch jyst unwaith eto.
Wonderful . It reminds me of my mother's cola mining village in NE England too although not Wales, similar community. When her grandfather's brother died in a coal minig accident there were 200 people lining the streets and a brass band playing the Dead March, reported in the local paper.
Hello Welsh , I myself an Aussie at 60 years of age . Never to hear of such beauty, May the youth of future hear and also appreciate the splendour of song and reflect upon the goodness of the past and how it was so good then . Message children......... Let go of the conflict of FB and such ...... Search for the good in life xxxx Love to all in our world 🌎 ❤ Hold your heart and feel the beating of life . Precious ❤😢 Until lost 😌 🙏
I saw this movie on TV along time ago I'm not Welsh but the family values are the same in my Mexican culture this movie reminds me of my family very respectful of my elders. I love this movie. ❤
It is things like this that bring out the Welshness in me. I am English, but my maternal family originated in Mid and North Wales, and I always feel at home there.
The first welsh song is "Mentra Gwen", very traditional in Wales and IN THE Chubut Valley, Patagonia Argentina, where there is a great welsh community of descendants. Today is possible listen that lenguage and fantastic music.
i am welsh and proud of it i was bought to england by my family because there was no work at big pit so i never got chance to speak my native tounge i love my country and take every oppertunity to go back to bleanavon we are the best in the world for singing which nobody can deny
I love hearing male Welsh choirs. When they sing the National Anthem, it is so moving that although I don't know the language, the beauty.of it takes over.
One of my favorite movies. It introduced me to the glorious singing of the Welshmen. Now I have discovered a huge group called Only Boys Aloud - all Welsh and fabulous!
Brilliant film with such a beautiful song. I'm fluent welsh and am a Welsh Male Voice Choir man. We sang this at a choir friends funeral & it had everyone in tears.
Wonderful clip , I would like to know what the name of this movie? What beautiful voices they have! Could you please tell me the actors and basic story? I appreciate any help you can give me. Thank you again. PEACE!
Oh thank you for singing..when I lived in Wales I got to see the natural beauty in the Welsh vocals. Even the way you all speak has a cadence. Boreadad nosta Pardon the spelling
With tears wetting my face, I think of my mother and sister, we played Myfanwy at their funerals, it is so beautiful to listen to and takes me back to my Welsh roots
I'm Irish, the wife is half Welsh,, her mother Sarah was the best mother in law I ever had from HOOK PEMBROKESHIRE...Served Britain during the war,,,,,,,brilliant sense of humour to the end...... but smart enough to see the English hypocrisy... to me she was ,,,the WELSH,,SARAH WALLACE,,,,YOU'LL NEVER TAKE OUR FREEDOM.....Scotland/ Wales/Ireland,,,United we stand.
It's moving to read so many comments by people from Wales or whose background is Welsh. I have always loved this film and it means so much to hear that it reflects real, authentic aspects of that beautiful culture and its music.
The pit on top of the hill always makes me chuckle and those Irish accents sound so twp, mun. Gilfach Goch never looked like that but Dai Bando still rocks.
I'm Scottish myself, but my much loved and greatly missed Granddad was a proud Taffy from Abertillery who had, like so many Welshman, one of those beautiful voices that just made the hairs of the back of your neck stand on end! He met my Scottish Nana at a dance in Falkirk during WW2, then they moved to Wales and they got married in Tredegar and settled with their children in Six Bells then move back to Scotland to raise their growing family, which included my Mum. Granddad died in 2007 at 90 years old and despite having lost most of his memory and faculties to Alzheimer's disease, by God, he could still belt out a song or two! Granddad, for me, epitomized everything i love about Wales and her people. The very noble quality they have about them, their natural soulfulness and musicality, their warmth, kindness and their brilliant humour, thier honesty and down-to-earthness, and their ability to be natural storytellers. Just everything that is beautiful about the Welsh. Granddad had all those qualities in abundance. There were only two singers in my family, Granddad and me, like him i have always been very musical and love to sing and, well, according to people i have a great voice, if that be the case then, i guess it's a wee gift passed down to me through Granddad!. So as long as i continue to sing, my Granddad will never die because he will live on through me and through the connection we had with our mutual love of music This movie makes my family so emotional that none of us can watch it all the way through without bawling our eyes out! My Mum, Nan and myself still always cry always every time we hear the Welsh male voice choirs or when we watch this film. My Grandad could never watch it either, his forefathers having all been miners, and his own father, my great-granddad having killed in the Six Bells mining disaster in the 1930's. Guess the movie just hit too close to home for him. But it's a brilliant movie and its such a lovely tribute to what is a truly beautiful culture that i feel immensely proud to have in my blood and as part of my heritage. xx Not that i'm not proud of my Scottish heritage also, of course! That goes without saying! lol! But i will always be proud to be the granddaughter of a Welshman xx Yaki Da, Grancha xx Miss you xx
lindiloos Beautiful! I’m from the neighbouring Ebbw Vale, and have family from Abertillery and Six Bells. The disaster, and those who lost their lives, will never be forgotten. Keep on singing, boyo!
20 out of 52 of the founding farther's were welsh even alexander hamilton was of welsh decent im a direct line of his and very much welsh british dna tested
It is tender & moving scenes like this one, crafted to cinema perfection by the great director John Ford that won "How Green Was My Valley" the Academy Award as Best Picture of 1941 & Ford Best Director at the 1942 awards ceremony. Ford couldn't be there, he was in the Navy in the Pacific, & would soon shoot the Japanese attack on Midway --- the film of which would win him the Oscar for best director of a documentary the following year.
Both my parents came from Welsh mining villages, so I spent a lot of time there growing up. There was certainly a lot of community spirit and helping out in times of trouble. The flipside was bitter feuds between certain families and terrible deprivation eg two children orphaned at 12 years old after a diptheria outbreak; my great g'father lost an eye in an underground explosion that killed a dozen of his neighbours and my grandfather died from the dust.
I am an old Welsh woman who has lived in exile for over 40 years and when I hear Welsh hymn singing, I still cry like a child.
Why were you exiled ? What did you do ?😂
This film is one of my favourite films. The recreation of a Welsh village in Hollywood is just wonderful.
Sending you lots of love from south Wales UK 🥰🥰🥰🏴
@@Doug791 Exile can be voluntary or like Napoleon, imposed. Mine was voluntary and I suspect for most Welsh people living abroad (the first generation, that is), when they feel the "hwyl" in the hymns, the nostalgia for the "home" country is overwhelming.
@@tharris4169 South Wales is where I am from. Dylan Thomas country.
A touching scene from the movie
"How Green Was My Valley"....I wish, how I wish, the world was STILL like the movie....
Not really. They were hard times. It would just after these times that they started shutting mines, youngsters couldn't find work, in the mines there was. nothing else for them in Wales. Both sides of my family moved to the Midlands, where my parents met. I found through a search that 2 generations back my Great Grandparents lived next door to each other. Yet my parents had to meet in the Midlands.
Iris Collins. I don’t know any miners but I do know mining is a dirty dangerous job and miners are a breed apart. Obviously your parents were destined to meet somewhere, sometime. I hope they were/are happy together.
Ah. Thanks for that. I didn't recognise the film.
Indeed, the price of German ww1 reparations. Plenty of industry was encouraged to set up in the Valleys but today they're gone along with the grammar schools leaving a long commute to Cardiff office jobs or a life on welfare under one party devolved government.
Me too, simpler times..
I was a little boy when I saw this born in Manchester Lancashire UK I cried my eyes out then now I am a retired priest of 70 years old and I am still crying my eyes out thank you for sharing .when this was showing my mother and grandmother and grandfather were all alive and active now they are in heaven with the living god waiting for me. God Bless you and all you love this blessing I give to all who visit this page as the tears run down my face thank you for the memories Father Charles Anderson
God bless you, Father 🙏🏼
Awakened regenerated by Holy Spirit filled believers from Lonlas Gospel Mission.
Who listened and accepted me unconditionally. . .
And wrestling in prayer they died daily, so Christ would be established in my heart and conscience. Many more faithful intercessors are my betters for I'm privileged to share that I'm flawed and talk with a lack of condemnation for the new creation is still a work of a pilgrim's progress.
Thanks be to God, He never slumbers or sleeps and has true shepherds caring for His flock so they Rock their immortal soul in the bosom of Abraham.
X♥️X
Padre 🙏
@@StanleypeterDickinson Your text was written by a man who truly knows the redemptive work of The Spirit of The Living God. Reading your text, has so stirred my Spirit, and brought flooding back memories of my childhood in The Bible College of Wales. You spoke of intercessors, which became the call of God on my young life. Like young Samuel with Eli in scripture, I sat at the age of nine at the feet of intercessor Samuel Rees Howells, who also was Principle of The Bible College of Wales. Many years have now passed and I am now almost 70 years of age. I continue to follow in the footsteps The Master has laid before me and I also follow after my earthly father, who now worships at The Feet of The King of Kings.
Intercession has always been my heartbeat, with my missionary heart breaking for The First Nation Indians of Canada. My dear Brother in Christ, I encourage you to continue to LOVE our Saviour with the same passion you have previously expressed. You have blessed me beyond measure tonight here in Northern Ireland. May The Peace of God truly garrison your heart, mind and Spirit.
Yours in Christ
E.J. Hyslop (Edward)
I’m half Welsh living in ‘New South Wales’ Australia...... my father was a South Welshman, his father and two cousins died in the mines. Their voices melt my soul and I’m so proud of my heritage Cymru am byth 🏴❤️
This is a sad song of a man who has lost his love and only wants to hold her hand one last time to say farewell.
To me it's even sadder because it reminds me of my mother, whose name was Myfanwy.
It never fails to bring me to tears.
Some times it all seems like a film -- our lives
❤ love the film
I don't understand Welsh BUT this is a beautiful & sad song- certainly brings tears to the old eyes.
🙄 I don't blame you. You love your momma. That ! Is pure Gold . 💞
Good and fond memories, I hope. Bless you.
What so many people do not know is that many, if not most, of the male singers in this movie were from the Welsh Presbyterian Church of Los Angeles. The last singer in that portion of the cast died just a couple of years ago.
well if you read comments, someone wrote the same thing 12 years ago. I guess just because they must have thought people stupid, they added that the Welsh Church was mmmmm Welsh…lest we were so stupid and thought them Irish or Scottish😂
@@maewebster9377 Ha, ha!
@@maewebster9377So?
Shame that the real british left in Britain ( other than Cornwall) cowardly became protestant heretics.
Good to know. Thank you.
Why can't neighbors love and care for each other like this? This is a sad world we live in now😥 Lovely singing 😚🥰♥️
Just by saying so you just made me feel it too!
Because people have abandoned God
People dont get on....Because conflict is the preferred route to survival by the naked ape still bloodied in fang. Even the christian lord said that he came not to bring peace but war. Mainly why we have so many neighbourhood conflicts ( some ending in death) about fences is because neighbours don't love each other but act only in their own interests. The main and majority of religions of the world bring on so much inconsideration and greed but always purport that love❤ is their way and that love is better than the sword.Just look at how Christians hate Jews and Arabs for instance. There are people in the world that care for others but they're in the minority. Yes take care... stay strong help others and try to good in the world....I DARE YOU!. G'day from Australia 🇦🇺.
Yes we had to be scared and feared through things! Its utterly inhuman but because we forgot God that is what happened a Godless sack of humanity!
I recently went to the emergency department of a hospital and, to my great surprise, was admitted for surgery. I'd been unable to contact anyone for some time, so my neighbours were worried about my apparent disappearance.
When I eventually came home, it took me over 20 minutes to get in the house because my neighbours all came to see me as soon as I got out of the taxi. I felt like a celebrity, and was overwhelmed by the offers of help, and by the amount of goodwill that I felt.
This did not happen in a village, but in a bustling multicultural area of a city.
There are still lots of good people around, caring and generous people.
Truly emotional! When the Welsh sing, the whole world sings. Cymru en byth!
I've just found this video - although I've heard the song many times. My name is Myfanwy. I was born in Zimbabwe (Rhodesia) then. My dad was Welsh, he was a gunner in WW2 in the RAF. Sadly I've only been to Wales once and I loved it. I'm in Essex. My heart's desire has always been to live in Wales. My Welsh roots are very important to me. Listening to this song makes me miss my dad too.
@Geraint Thomas Aww thank you.. I would move tomorrow if I could!
Myfanwy was your maiden name Samuels and did you prehaps attend Eveline High Scool in Bulawayo ?
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Essex isn't THAT far from Wales, get your skates on, merch (girl) and go!
I've always regarded Wales as my "spiritual" home, especially the north.
Love it there. I've climbed (ropes), trekked & travelled all over it and NEVER tire of it.
A beautiful country.
So what are you waiting for GO!
On the....
B.5070
(Which used to be the A.5 before the bypass was built), there's a large sign,
"Croeso I Cymru". When I used to pass it I knew I was home and it ALWAYS made me smile.
I still go that way, sometimes, just to see it.
Sadly, due to circumstances, I can't go and live there. If I could, I'd go tomorrow!😢
Go home love, it's not far from Essex. I got to the UK from Australia, my dream. You can get to your dream ✨️. ❤ life is short, live it well.😊
Chapel singing on a Sunday where you heard everyone harmonise easily take the descant of the hymns sung, in their stride. No practice ever, just natural beauty of their voices.
Ladies, always with with hat and gloves on, men, clean shirts, polished shoes
such are my memories as a child
That is so true and has brought back a school memory. When I was in Mynyddbach back in the 60s a small group of us used to sing the latest pop songs a capella in the break time (sitting on the radiator). Our favorite was "Rag Doll" because the harmonisation was quite a challenge. Such simple pleasures..... sigh sigh... and my auntie never learned the piano but played by ear (every home had one - a piano that is not an ear LOL). She played for ballet school, but we all used to collect around the piano and say... for example..; Can you play My Way? and off she would go, sometimes stopping because it wasn't the right key (all by ear - no music sheet) and we'd sing along around the piano. And then everybody was chucking out the piano and today it costs a fortune... what a crazy world.
Me too
How green was the valley, fantastic film. Brilliant singing, loved it.❤❤❤
I remember watching this beautiful film as a child, I never forgot the beautiful Welsh voices so incredibly talented. It made a huge impact on me and I imagine Heaven's Choir to be just like it.
Yes - Saturday afternoon on a rainy day in winter - watched it as a child too. I was just then thinking the same - I imagine Heaven's Choir to be just like this.
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@@popfoot7965. Same here and I’ve watched it many times over the years. It’s heart cleansing. ❤
Oh dad i still feel your prescence when i see films in black n white of the valleys ,even though you lived in england with your soul mate of 72 years ,wales and Treorchy and merthyr was your true home ,and me i was born in birmingham ,but wales was always my first home to me i loved it so much ,god bless boyo ronald xx
Da Iawn Cariad. Cymru means Belonging, no matter where you are from. ❤
Being at least three quarters Welsh, any Welsh singing always makes the hair on the back of my neck lift and brings me to tears. ❤
My grandmother was welsh. I love welsh choirs. Always make me cry. She grew up during this time in a coal mining town of Pontipre
My grandmother was also Welsh from Porth in the Rhonde Valley
I just found this on here and I started listening to them singing Mafanwy, it was my mothers favourite song one which she used to sing, tears streaming down my face I thought of her who passed many years ago but never forgotten. It was very moving for me. What a beautiful welsh song. Xx proud to be welsh xx
Memories, memories. Days gone by when the world was slower and life more simple. Children played
outside for most of the day - and were safe. Telly was in it’s infancy. No computers. No one had a phone,
let alone a car. You walked to the Doctor and waited 5 or 10 minutes to see him, no receptionist. You
took a bus into town, one or another came along every 10 minutes. Trains were a joke, dirty and rarely
on time but steam engines just part of life at the time. Milkman delivered your milk everyday. Baker
came once a week. Coalman when you needed him. Dustbin men once a week and took your metal
bin and emptied it into the lorry. Free NHS and if you went to hospital you did as you were told. Nit
Nurses visited schools. Miners strikes every Winter with power cuts, so sitting in front of a coal fire
with candles for light. Teachers had canes and very occaisionally used them ( on boys ). Blankets,
Eiderdowns and stone hot water bottles in beds. Yes, a good childhood and schooldays and Mum’s
lovely cooking. All the good old English staples.
but workers were not safe. not a bit of it. toiling away without safety or showers for a bare pittance. no alternative. they banded together and helped each other. look up the tredegar medical aid society, on which aneurin bevan based the nhs
What a director Ford was - an unashamedly sentimental scene, like so many others in this great film, but he knew exactly how to pull the heartstrings then, now and forever.
This is what you call a great film.This is when the family could sit together and enjoy a film a song beautifully sang always get chocked up when sang.
My most beloved movie! The love I have for the Welsh is immense. I'm in tears now!
I saw this film when I was a little girl and I still cry when I see this. I love Welsh choirs and this song in particularly. I am Dutch and I live in The Netherlands. I was in Wales a few times and I love it.
I first saw this wonderful movie as a child & have loved it ever since.
The Welsh have created remarkable music. In church, I always find the Welsh hymn tunes to be the most beautiful.
The roots of the voices of Wales, could be from ancient of days, The choirs of the Temple, the Levites , those who were not slaughtered by the Roman's, could have been amongst those taken as slaves to the tin and copper mines of the Welsh coast, Rome had outposts there, and after Romes fall, many slaves made their way to Scotland and Ireland, DNA results reveal Mediterranean ancestry in a lot of CELTIC regions, , The Welsh language, is very close to Hebrew , as well ❤
Makes me cry every time!! Technically, I am "half" Welsh- my mother moved to England at the age of 7, but spiritually, my God, Wales is home!!! The brave family members both myself and others have lost to these mines and those like them will never be forgotten.
❤
I'm the same
Hiraeth. Gets me every time.
I'm in tears❤️🏴❤️
Same for me. I was born in Brooklyn, NY and grew up speaking Welsh because my Mam and Mamgu spoke it every day, all the time. Only switched to Sais when my Dad was home. I LOVE the sound of Cymraeg.
I loved this magnificent film. The acting was superb and my god!! the Welsh sure can sing. I still cry watching " How Green Was My Valley" and I'm 67 years old.
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The singing was done by the Choir from the Welsh Presbyterian Church in LA. They are welsh people.
Thank you for sharing this. I watched this for the first time tonight and the music just leapt out at me as spectacular, especially this scene.
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Great info
I think of my beloved grandfather bless you dadah
Scranton.
The entire cast is brilliant and it is my favorite John Ford directed movie. Yes, it beat out "Citizen Kane" for best picture. As many times as I've seen "Citizen Kane," I've never LOVED it. I LOVE "How Green Is My Valley." Each viewing becomes richer, deeper and more moving.
Well said.
Very true.
that's because of the book on which it was based. you can't beat the celts for art
Of course, in retrospect: why would, so shortly after all the hardships of the Great Depression, a movie about an unhappy rich person win against a sentimental and beautifully made film about poor people who hold together? Only film students don't get it. Same happened with Million Dollar Baby against the Aviator in 2004
Donald Crisp and Sara Allgood, two of my favorites, from How Green Was My Valley and the splendid Welsh singing which always makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up! This is wonderful!
Very moving and much appreciated by a London Welshman 🏴 my mother's family all Welsh
miners , lead miners from West Wales and colliers from the Rhondda valley. A shame that they couldn't cast a Welshwoman with an authentic accent & Welsh speaker. Great film though and very evovative of the solidarity and the non conformist socialism of South Wales, finally diluted by the brutal Thatcherism of the 1980s
That’s a beautiful book ! The Welsh are natural singers always harmonious beautifully!
I have seen this movie a half dozen times and it still brings a tear all these many years later
This reminds me of my mother who was called Myfanwy.A beautiful moving Welsh film.
Dear Judith Do you know the name of the film?
"How green was my valley"
This reminds me of my late father Brian Reed who had an excellent tenor singing voice , almost as good as Mario Lanza . Also of my granfather Clifford Reed of Cwm who started out as a coal hewer and eventually ended up in a mines rescue team in the Valleys .
Very proud of both their life achievements .
Rest in Eternal Peace .
An absolutely beautiful film, never fails to bring tears to my eyes. Being English I still think that the vast majority of Welsh people are lovely people in a lovely country.
So are the English
Well, as you know at one time all of England spoke Welsh. Then came the Anglo Saxons. The rest as they say!!!
What a beautiful message from you. I am from deepest South Wales where I learned Welsh as a first language. But you are my neighbour's John and in God's eyes we are brother's and sisters.
Lee Michael Walton I served with a gud man from Llanelli he has long past now. A fine friend.
upper cut the original settlers of this land
My mother was a mixture,born in Canada of an Australian mother & a Welshman from Llandrilla. She arrived in OZ at 14mths old where she lived the rest of her life.She knew no Welsh nor do I, apart from her name, Myfanwy Roberts.Whenever I hear this song, from this movie or by a Welsh choir,it brings tears readily to my eyes.It's a beautiful song of a lost love,that evokes memories of the face of that little red haired Welsh girl, who was my mum. Os mai dim ond gallwn cusanu 'ch jyst unwaith eto.
Wonderful . It reminds me of my mother's cola mining village in NE England too although not Wales, similar community. When her grandfather's brother died in a coal minig accident there were 200 people lining the streets and a brass band playing the Dead March, reported in the local paper.
Hello Welsh , I myself an Aussie at 60 years of age . Never to hear of such beauty,
May the youth of future hear and also appreciate the splendour of song and reflect upon the goodness of the past and how it was so good then .
Message children.........
Let go of the conflict of FB and such ......
Search for the good in life xxxx
Love to all in our world 🌎 ❤
Hold your heart and feel the beating of life .
Precious ❤😢
Until lost 😌 🙏
I saw this movie on TV along time ago
I'm not Welsh but the family values are the same in my Mexican culture this movie reminds me of my family very respectful of my elders. I love this movie. ❤
It is things like this that bring out the Welshness in me. I am English, but my maternal family originated in Mid and North Wales, and I always feel at home there.
My fathers favourite. I always feel he is near and watching over us when I listen to Myfanwy..
Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus
I remember watching this film fifty years ago with my dad .
The first welsh song is "Mentra Gwen", very traditional in Wales and IN THE Chubut Valley, Patagonia Argentina, where there is a great welsh community of descendants. Today is possible listen that lenguage and fantastic music.
Thank u!
More Welsh than Wales,these days, swd a fod. The way the UK's going we'll need a lot more Mimosas soon.
How lovely IF and only IF people had the same love and care as in this lovely Welsh village of a by gone time. Thank you for sharing
How Green Was My Valley
I love this film..... seen it countless times ❤
If there was ever a scene that is a true tear-jerker it's this one.
One of my favourite films. Has me in tears every time and love to listen to Welsh choirs xx
i am welsh and proud of it i was bought to england by my family because there was no work at big pit so i never got chance to speak my native tounge i love my country and take every oppertunity to go back to bleanavon we are the best in the world for singing which nobody can deny
I absolutely LOVE hearing them sing. Voices from heaven given by God!
I love hearing male Welsh choirs. When they sing the National Anthem, it is so moving that although I don't know the language, the beauty.of it takes over.
You should see “Zulu.” It is allegedly about an English army troop but the minute they start singing, you can tell they are Welsh.
I will watch for it!
One of my favorite movies. It introduced me to the glorious singing of the Welshmen. Now I have discovered a huge group called Only Boys Aloud - all Welsh and fabulous!
A beautiful film with great actors.
A BRILLIANT!!!!!! film. I cry every time i see this great film. My god!!!! the Welsh can sing.
Lovely. The midwife who delivered my last child was named Myfanwy. Her father was Welsh. We called her Miff.
This song remembered my grandfather who i never met and from wales.bless him.
In the midst of a troubled world pieces like this still bring hope.
Beauty beyond words. Sung at my Welsh Mother in laws funeral.
Makes my eyes leak every time i hear this , theres nobody who sings like us welsh 🏴🦖🏈
I'm Irish but I agree with you 100 percent ❤♣️
I'm English and agree. Beautiful voices.
How true,the Welsh voice cannot be beaten.❤
Brilliant film with such a beautiful song. I'm fluent welsh and am a Welsh Male Voice Choir man. We sang this at a choir friends funeral & it had everyone in tears.
Carwyn Wooldridge which choir are you with?
Wonderful clip , I would like to know what the name of this movie? What beautiful voices they have! Could you please tell me the actors and basic story?
I appreciate any help you can give me. Thank you again.
PEACE!
John Robinson en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_Green_Was_My_Valley_(film)
My dad was Welsh. My name is Myfanwy. He had a Welsh Male Voice Choir album (record) - I loved it too.
Oh thank you for singing..when I lived in Wales I got to see the natural beauty in the Welsh vocals.
Even the way you all speak has a cadence.
Boreadad nosta
Pardon the spelling
With tears wetting my face, I think of my mother and sister, we played Myfanwy at their funerals, it is so beautiful to listen to and takes me back to my Welsh roots
Damn, I'm crying again! Get's me every time. A world lost
The most beautiful story cry every time I watch it and the Welsh have the most amazing voices beautiful
If you don’t cry watching this film then your not human one of the greatest film that was ever made 🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴
I am welsh ❤🏴 myfanwy brings me to tears every time I hear it ❤ such a beautiful love song. Cymru am byth 🏴 xx
One of my favourite movies always gives me goosebumps sad how the world has changed xxx
My great auntes name was myfanwy. My mom and her father loved this movie 🙆
Myfanwy, the greatest love song ever written.
May each one on Earth feel this love, at least one time.
its beautiful.. i love the song they sing.. and i just can't forget the way he called her. "my old beauty
A wonderful rendition from a superb film
This movie is a tear jerker. But one of my all time favourites.
When my grandma was dying she had so many friends who came to say goodbye. It was really sweet
Roddy McDowell was the cutest little kid, such a good actor.
Beautiful : a wonderful film, marvellous voices. Thank you!
I'm Irish, the wife is half Welsh,, her mother Sarah was the best mother in law I ever had from HOOK PEMBROKESHIRE...Served Britain during the war,,,,,,,brilliant sense of humour to the end...... but smart enough to see the English hypocrisy... to me she was ,,,the WELSH,,SARAH WALLACE,,,,YOU'LL NEVER TAKE OUR FREEDOM.....Scotland/ Wales/Ireland,,,United we stand.
Cry my fucking eyes out every time I watch this - "How great thou art."
This is such a beautiful film, there is something about Welsh singers that touches your very soul.❤♣️
It's moving to read so many comments by people from Wales or whose background is Welsh. I have always loved this film and it means so much to hear that it reflects real, authentic aspects of that beautiful culture and its music.
The pit on top of the hill always makes me chuckle and those Irish accents sound so twp, mun. Gilfach Goch never looked like that but Dai Bando still rocks.
This is so lovely the singing gives me goosebumps my Mum was from Swansea South Wales beautiful ing sung
I'm Scottish myself, but my much loved and greatly missed Granddad was a proud Taffy from Abertillery who had, like so many Welshman, one of those beautiful voices that just made the hairs of the back of your neck stand on end! He met my Scottish Nana at a dance in Falkirk during WW2, then they moved to Wales and they got married in Tredegar and settled with their children in Six Bells then move back to Scotland to raise their growing family, which included my Mum. Granddad died in 2007 at 90 years old and despite having lost most of his memory and faculties to Alzheimer's disease, by God, he could still belt out a song or two! Granddad, for me, epitomized everything i love about Wales and her people. The very noble quality they have about them, their natural soulfulness and musicality, their warmth, kindness and their brilliant humour, thier honesty and down-to-earthness, and their ability to be natural storytellers. Just everything that is beautiful about the Welsh. Granddad had all those qualities in abundance. There were only two singers in my family, Granddad and me, like him i have always been very musical and love to sing and, well, according to people i have a great voice, if that be the case then, i guess it's a wee gift passed down to me through Granddad!. So as long as i continue to sing, my Granddad will never die because he will live on through me and through the connection we had with our mutual love of music This movie makes my family so emotional that none of us can watch it all the way through without bawling our eyes out! My Mum, Nan and myself still always cry always every time we hear the Welsh male voice choirs or when we watch this film. My Grandad could never watch it either, his forefathers having all been miners, and his own father, my great-granddad having killed in the Six Bells mining disaster in the 1930's. Guess the movie just hit too close to home for him. But it's a brilliant movie and its such a lovely tribute to what is a truly beautiful culture that i feel immensely proud to have in my blood and as part of my heritage. xx Not that i'm not proud of my Scottish heritage also, of course! That goes without saying! lol! But i will always be proud to be the granddaughter of a Welshman xx Yaki Da, Grancha xx Miss you xx
Memories
you must have loved him very much, i am welsh and i can see you have welsh blood coursing through your veins,many blessings to you and your family.
lindiloos Beautiful! I’m from the neighbouring Ebbw Vale, and have family from Abertillery and Six Bells. The disaster, and those who lost their lives, will never be forgotten. Keep on singing, boyo!
What a wonderful post and how true it is.
I bet you are a Brit who voted to be ruled from London, England in 2014.
Thx 🙏 you for sharing this
Miss mum and dad ❤️❤️❤️
The voices in this movie make me cry my eyes out every time I watch it.
Surely they're not that bad.
One of my favourite films of all time , born in England, but very proud of my Welsh name
Just too wonderful !
Real men, with the voices of angels ❤️
Fighting to keep the tears back. Thank you
Wonderful film, it makes me cry.😢
How green is my valley. I cry everytime I watch it.
One of my favourite Welsh songs beautifully sung
How Green Was My Valley was my mom’s favorite film ❤😢
I saw this remarkable film when I was in 🏫 school days, with my muma, she was just crying, tears brought, that's all I can say
you always get the smart arses picking holes in anything. if you dont like dont watch !!! taffy and proud..
+clive harris Your right mate just a bunch of nerds.
THey are ashamed of their stupidity so belittle smart people.
20 out of 52 of the founding farther's were welsh even alexander hamilton was of welsh decent im a direct line of his and very much welsh british dna tested
music and singing is ingrained in the welsh soul,so very proud to be a welshman,great film
It is tender & moving scenes like this one, crafted to cinema perfection by the great director John Ford that won "How Green Was My Valley" the Academy Award as Best Picture of 1941 & Ford Best Director at the 1942 awards ceremony. Ford couldn't be there, he was in the Navy in the Pacific, & would soon shoot the Japanese attack on Midway --- the film of which would win him the Oscar for best director of a documentary the following year.
This was so touching.
„How Green was My Valley „ a masterful film.
This always brings tears to my eyes.
Both my parents came from Welsh mining villages, so I spent a lot of time there growing up. There was certainly a lot of community spirit and helping out in times of trouble. The flipside was bitter feuds between certain families and terrible deprivation eg two children orphaned at 12 years old after a diptheria outbreak; my great g'father lost an eye in an underground explosion that killed a dozen of his neighbours and my grandfather died from the dust.
Sad.
How green was my valley brilliant film
I cry to this most beautiful movie.
What Beautiful Song 🎵 and music too
so beautiful