That tiny heap on the right is the ones that have the song lyrics included.
That massive towering edifice on the left is the ones that don't have the song lyrics included. Yipes and briwsion and 'rarglwyd !
To put it into numbers, there were 25 with no lyrics and a pathetic 8 that did. That's a feeble 24% .Sbwriel folks !
Par for the course, you might think gentle reader ...... so, I did the same thing with a random sample of my CDs in other languages .... German, Spanish, French, Russian ,English .... ..... but for some reason known as total idiocy I have swapped the heaps around ... this time the ones on the right are the few that DON'T have any lyrics supplied.... very few.
There were 7 with no lyrics and a whopping 42 that did.
That's an impressive lyrics inclusion rate of 86%
In addition to that, I can tell you from extensive personal experience that it is very hard to find the lyrics to Welsh pop songs on the net .... and the reverse is true for the other European languages I have tried ... as above, Spanish, French, German, Russian and English.
Even the most obscure German and Spanish bands have their lyrics both included in the Cd and on the net .
Why is this important ? Why am I bovvered ? So what ?
Well, listening to, singing along to and learning the words to songs is a great boost to language learning ... it's one of the first factors people mention when they are asked how they learned English for example.
Assuming that Welsh musicians would like people to learn Welsh ..... not an absolute given I must admit ...... surely it would be a good idea to either stick the words in with the CD and\or put them on the net. How hard can it be ? What's more, it might increase their CD sales and their ( admittedly puny) income from mp3 downloads.
Come on ! Do it ! Do a little bit to ease the progress of us poor sods out here as we gwib hopefully along that eponymous Rocky Road to Welsh!
OK ... wittering over , so it's music time !, it's going to be Y Cyrff with Pethau Achlysurol if the bloggy Gods are on my side .....