{"id":6938,"date":"2021-05-14T15:41:06","date_gmt":"2021-05-14T15:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/westsongs.uk\/?p=6938"},"modified":"2025-07-08T21:17:56","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T21:17:56","slug":"hedgerow-in-wales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westsongs.uk\/?p=6938","title":{"rendered":"Hedgerow in Wales"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Hedgerow In Wales\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CdQVUIQGP7c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There&#8217;s a stretch of road between Talog and Meidrim where the verge and hedgerow is quite overwhelming in its richness and beauty. I don&#8217;t go that way too often but over the years this song &#8211; about Spring in Wales &#8211; has gradually emerged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Special thanks to David Thomas for help with the welsh bit which was both daunting and exciting to do, and also to Caerthan for helping with the mix, which my deaf ears can&#8217;t quite manage on their own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Slow down, I slow down, see the cow parsley blowing in the breeze<br>Little white flowers, snowy umbrellas, branching out like tiny trees<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I slow down, I see the bluebells, It&#8217;s my last chance for another year<br>They&#8217;ll be gone soon, making way for June<br>But I can always hear the colour blue ringing in my ears<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s a hedgerow in May, in Wales, in May<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And the meadowsweet&#8217;s coming soon!<br>And the meadowsweet&#8217;s coming soon!<br>And the meadowsweet&#8217;s coming soon!<br>And the meadowsweet&#8217;s coming for the end of June!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I turn my face to the wind, I take in the scent of everything growing<br>Light reflects in the dew on a spiders web in the grass<br>Now is the vetch, now is the stitchwort<br>And I&#8217;m counting petals by the side of the road<br>There&#8217;s nothing as sublime as spring in Wales<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And the pink red campion is ready to dance with the buzz of the bee<br>As the fresh-faced King of May is ready to dance with me<br>If I can slow it down and breathe the magic of the month of May<br>The air is clear on the road to Meidrim on a sunny sweet spring day<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s a hedgerow in May, in Wales, in May<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yn ystod y gwanwyn, yng Nghymru, yng Nghymru<br>Blodau tlws a clawdd, yn mis Mai, yng Nghymru<br>Diwrnod mis Mai melys, yng Nghymru, yng Nghymru<br>Blodau yn y l\u00f4n, yn mis Mai, yng Nghymru<br>Blodau yn y gwanwyn, yng Nghymru, yng Nghymru<br>Yn ystod y gwanwyn, yng Nghymru, yng Nghymru<br>Blodau yn y gwanwyn, yng Nghymru, yng Nghymru<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mae&#8217;r erwain yn dod yn fuan<br>Mae Mehefin yn dod yn fuan<br>Mae&#8217;r haf yn dod yn fuan<br>Yng Nghymru, yng Nghymru<br>Arafwch!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a stretch of road between Talog and Meidrim where the verge and hedgerow is quite overwhelming in its richness and beauty. I don&#8217;t go that way too often but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"rishi__cb_customizer_meta":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westsongs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6938"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/westsongs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/westsongs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westsongs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westsongs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6938"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/westsongs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7525,"href":"https:\/\/westsongs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6938\/revisions\/7525"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westsongs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westsongs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westsongs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westsongs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}