Memories in music

Music does funny things to you. It makes you remember things. There's always the first dance song (at a wedding or your first disco/prom), the song that you had a heart broken moment with, the song that you remember first from your childhood.

But last night while watching the opening ceremony of the Em isteddfod, I heard a song that stirred a memory in me. I started to sing along to the words knowing them but not really knowing why. The song:


 is a Welsh hymn and it then suddenly came to me.

It was sung (not by a choir) but at mum's funeral. I sent Neb to check (we have the order of service in a drawer) and yes I had been right.

It had also been sung at both my dad's mum and dads funeral. A song so filled with memories that I had blanked them out.

BNM