Annotation:Leap Over the Stone (A)
X:1 T:Tros y garreg T:Leap Over the Stone, A M:6/8 R:Air and Jig Q:"Allegro" B:Edward Jones - Musical and Poetical Relicks of the Welsh Bards (1794, p. 160) Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:Gmin G2G ^F=ED|GAG A3|B2B AGF|BcB c3| d2d ded|c2c cdA|ged cdB|AG^F G3:| |:dcd Bcd|c2-B A3|BAB GAB|A3 D3| G2G ^F=ED|GAG A3|B2B AGF|BcB c3| D2d ded|c2c cd^f|g2d edc|B>cA G3:|]
LEAP OVER THE STONE, A (Tros y Gareg). AKA - "Crossing the Stone," "Over the Stone." Welsh, Air (6/8 time). G Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. A Welsh song from Edward Jones's [1] (also known as Baard y Brenin) Musical and Poetical Relicks of the Welsh Bards [2] (1784, issued in several editions), that relates the sentiments of a warrior returning home from battle and contemplating the home stone and imagining its store of memories of love and battle through the ages. According to "The Contemplator" website [3] the song has been attributed "to Rhys Bodychen, who led a troop of Welsh forces at the Battle of Bosworth Field where Richard III was defeated by Henry Tudor in 1485."
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Over the stone, the old gray stone,
Let me ponder here alone;
Through all weather we go together,
Ancient stone, thou good old stone.
Of the many friends I've seen,
Thou the truest friend has been;
Some forget me, some have fled,
Some are false, and some are dead,
Changing never constant ever,
Still I find thee, dear old stone.