Silly Boy

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I wrote and recorded 'Silly Boy' when I was 17, listening to XTC and reading Carson McCullers. The lyric is about a weird imagined encounter between a young city boy and a mystical, druidic slate-mining villager in North Wales.

Nes i sgwennu a recordio 'Silly Boy' pan o'n in 17, yn gwrando ar llawer o XTC a'n darllen lot o Carson McCullers. Mae'r gân am gyfarfod rhyfedd rhwng bachgen ifanc o'r ddinas a hen bentrefwr, sydd fel math o dderwydd cyfriniol, mewn hen bentref llechi yng Ngogledd Cymru.

lyrics

Silly boy, did you ever see down south
Silly boy, the hound of carrion,
Running around howling in the canyon?

Boy don’t you come around
Telling me what ya found
Clicking your tongue and running down Main Street

City boy, did you ever dig that sound?
Pretty boy, the harps beneath the ground,
Twenty-eight if he’d made the last round?

Boy don’t you come around
Telling me what ya found
Clicking your tongue and running down Main Street

The good farmhand won’t complain about anything at all
A good farmhand like yourself won’t talk about the
Fables of the fall

Silly boy, did you ever face the sleet?
Silly boy, ever seen the slit,
This scar of mine from the dead slate mines?

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released February 26, 2024
Written and performed by Huw Griffiths
Produced by Kris Jenkins & Y Dail
Engineered by Kris Jenkins

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Y Dail Pontypridd, UK

Band Cymraeg. Welsh band.

Y Dail formed in Pontypridd, South Wales in 2018. The band's songwriter, Huw Griffiths (19) cites Television, 60s girl-group pop, Joe Meek and early Prefab Sprout as influences.

Ffurfiwyd Y Dail ger Pontypridd yn 2018. Mae eu cyfansoddwr, Huw Griffiths (19 oed) yn nodi Television, 'girl-group' pop y 60au, Joe Meek a Prefab Sprout cynnar fel dylanwadau. ... more

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