Ywen (Yew) - Welsh/Cymraeg - live - by TeiFi

Описание: Ywen
The opening number for a new bi-lingual outdoor gig-theatre, about nature, Wales, language, Cymraeg, climate, war, greenwashing and colonialism.
This was a work-in-progress scratch sharing.

The Welsh folklore around the yew tree connected to all the other thoughts I was putting into this production: death, rebirth, poison, medicine, divinity, blood, bones, war and peace. (Lyrics with translation below)

Credits
Bute Park, Cardiff, June 2025
Sound design, performance, writing, costume: TeiFi
Live audio: Jon Ruddick
Camera and editing: Roger Graham
Additional edits: TeiFi

Thanks
With massive thanks to Tŷ Cerdd, Articulture, OCM and everyone on the Codi Bŵm team who helped and was present on this project and on that day. Thanks to Kylie Ann Smith and Donal Whelan for writing and Cymraeg feedback.

Lyrics (Translation below)
Ywen
Ywen, ywen, ywen, ywen, ywen

Bywyd-marwolaeth - bywyd
Bywyd-marwolaeth - bywyd
Bywyd-marwolaeth - bywyd

A gwaed,
Gwaed
Gwaed
A gwaed

Bywyd – marwolaeth – bywyd
A gwreiddiau’n plethu â’r esgyrn

Bywyd – marwolaeth – bywyd
A gwreiddiau ynghlwm yn y gwacter
Yn tyfu’r trwy’r tywyllwch, trwy’r llygaid

Yn wenwynig
Yn sanctaidd
Yn foddion
Yn ddwyfol

Yn ymestyn yn ôl at / Mor hên a ddechrau hanes
Gyda ni trwy’r oesau

Dweden nhw ar draws y môr
“Tri oes yr ywen o ddechrau’r byd i’w ddiwedd.”

Ywen y tragwyddol
Yn fyth bythol
Yr anfeidrol

Bywyd – marwolaeth – bywyd

Yn atgyfodi
Ailymgnawdoli
Yn gwaedu

Mi fydd yr ywen yn Nanhyfer
Yn gwaedu nes bod heddwch ar draws y byd

TRANSLATION
Yew
Yew, yew, yew, yew, yew

Life-death-life
Life-death-life
Life-death-life

And blood,
Blood
Blood
And blood

Life-death-life
And roots braided with bones
Life-death-life
And roots tied in the void
Growing through the darkness, through the eyes

Poisonous
Sacred
Medicine
Divine

Reaching back to - / As old as the beginning of time
With us through the ages
Across the sea they say
“Three lifetimes of the yew from the beginning of the world to the end”

Yew the eternal
Forever and ever
The infinite

Life-death-life

Resurrecting
Reincarnating
Bleeding

The yew in Nevern will bleed until there is peace on Earth.