Welsh Song Weekly is a new podcast where Jason Shepherd from the 'Learn Welsh Podcast' has taken up the challenge to learn and record a traditional Welsh song every week for 52 weeks from St. Davids day 2013 to St. Davids day 2014. Today's song is a Welsh Hymn called 'Arglwydd Dyma Fi (Here I am God)' which demonstrates the influence of Welsh hymns on the sound of Welsh Folk Music.

 

Week 2: Arglwydd Dyma Fi

Lyrics and the English Translation

Mi glywaf dyner lais yn galw arnaf fi i ddod a golchi ‘meiau i gyd yn afon Calfari.

 

Arglwydd, dyma fi ar dy alwad di, canna f’enaid yn y gwaed a gaed ar Galfari.

 

Yr Iesu sy’n fy ngwadd i dderbyn gyda’i saint ffydd, gobaith, cariad pur a hedd a phob rhyw nefol fraint.

 

Yr Iesu sy’n cryfhau o’m mewn ei waith drwy ras; mae’n rhoddi nerth i’m henaid gwan i faeddu ‘mhechod cas.

 

Gogoniant byth am drefn y cymod a’r glanhad; derbyniaf Iesu fel yr wyf a channaf am y gwaed.

 

 

I hear thy tender voice Calling me To come and wash my sins In the River of Calvary.

 

Lord, here I am At your call Wash my spirit in the blood That flows from Calvary.

 

Jesus invites me To receive with the saints Faith, hope, pure love and peace And all of heaven’s honours.

 

Jesus strengthens me In his work through grace He gives strength to my weak spirit To beat my hateful sin.

 

Praise be forever For the Atonement and the Cleansing I will receive Jesus as I am And be washed clean in the blood.