The Drowning of Capel Celyn

It was cruel to take their village from them

down in chapel holly before I was born

where calm waters rest like after a storm

and wet ground stays silent, the ache of a dry sky;

 

we flooded it and washed our hands for our blood

our life we drained from our lands

for industry many miles away

saw life grow for Wilson’s England

 

vanquished those tarnished in mud,

graves lay still a more silent smothered death,

the church undone, its frame a last breath,

Dee its thunder it spills readily now

 

now innocent Lynn Celyn silence haunts the place,

Cofiwch Dryweryn it reads in Afon Tryweryn

because of my home Liverpool still stands

the submerged town drowned by the English.

 

Moelfryn                                         Gwerndelwau

Glan Celyn & y Llythyrdy               Y Capel

Y Fynwent                                       Tŷ Capel

Tynybont                                         Yr Ysgol (school)

Brynhyfryd                                      Y Gelli

Cae Fadog                                       Penbryn Fawr

Coed Mynach                                 Dol Fawr

Garnedd Lwyd                                Hafod Fadog & Mynwent y Crynwyr

Y Tyrpeg                                          Tyddyn Bychan

 

Michael Holloway