Calon Lân#Adaptions

{{Short description|1890s Welsh traditional song}}

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{{langnf|cy|"Calon Lân"|italic=no|A Pure Heart}} is a Welsh hymn, the words of which were written in the 1890s by Daniel James (Gwyrosydd) and sung to a tune by John Hughes.{{cite web

| url=http://www.hymntime.com/tch/bio/h/u/g/hughes_j_2.htm

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}} The song was originally written as a hymn,{{cite web

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| title=Calon Lan the rugby anthem

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| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180401011132/http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/z9f8tfr

}} but has become firmly established as a rugby anthem, associated with the Welsh rugby union, being sung before almost every Test match involving the Welsh national team – though more likely to be heard sung at matches involving the Welsh football team in recent years. In 2007 the song was one of the traditional Welsh songs to make it to the screen in an S4C television series {{lang|cy|Codi Canu}}, an attempt to bring traditional four-part harmony choral singing back to the Welsh rugby terraces.{{citation needed|date=March 2021}}

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In 2012, the Welsh group Only Boys Aloud sang "{{lang|cy|Calon Lân|italic=no}}" on the British ITV show Britain's Got Talent, coming third in the final.{{cite news|title=Here's what Only Boys Aloud just sang on Britain's Got Talent |url=https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/local-news/heres-what-only-boys-aloud-2050196|website=Wales Online |publisher=Media Wales |date=2012-05-12}} It has since become the most watched Welsh-language video on YouTube.{{Citation needed|date=October 2021}}

"{{lang|cy|Calon Lân|italic=no}}" is unusual among the most popular Welsh traditional songs in that an English-language version of the words is virtually never sung (unlike, for example, {{lang|cy|Cwm Rhondda}}){{Citation needed|date=March 2021}}, but the tune does appear, for example, in the British Methodist hymn book Hymns and Psalms,{{cite book|title=Hymns and Psalms |publisher=Methodist Publishing House |year=1983 |isbn=0-946550-01-8}}. set to the lyrics of "I will Sing the Wondrous Story" by Francis Harold Rowley. Hymn 223, The English singing translation by Rees Harris (1874–1954) appeared in The Abingdon Song Book in 1937.{{Cite web|title=I Seek Not Life's Ease and Pleasures |url=https://hymnary.org/text/i_seek_not_lifes_ease_and_pleasures|access-date=2021-08-02|website=Hymnary.org}}

A Spanish-language version of the song exists,{{cite news|title=Comrades in Patagonia |url=https://www.narberth-and-whitland-today.co.uk/article.cfm?id=1231&headline=Comrades%20in%20Patagonia!§ionIs=news&searchyear=2007 |date=2007-05-25 |access-date=2021-10-03 |work=Narberth & Whitland Today |publisher=Tindle Newspaper Group |location=Tenby}} sung mostly by Welsh Argentines in {{lang|cy|Y Wladfa}}, the former Welsh colony in Patagonia.{{cite news|url=https://www.clarin.com/viajes/destinies/huella-colonos-galeses-Patagonia_0_4yHAVYebW.html |title=La huella de los colonos galeses en la Patagonia |lang=es-ar |trans-title=The footprint of the Welsh settlers in Patagonia |work=Clarín |location=Buenos Aires |publisher=Clarin Group |date=2016-05-03 |access-date=2021-10-03}}

On 10 September 2019, the song was sung in the UK House of Commons by {{lang|cy|Plaid Cymru|italics=no}} and Welsh Labour members of parliament who were protesting about Brexit and the prorogation controversy.{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-wales-49646337 |title=Brexit: MPs sing Calon Lân in Parliament shutdown protest |date=2019-12-10 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}

The {{lang|cy|Calon Lân|italic=no}} Centre is based at {{lang|cy|Mynyddbach|italic=no}} Chapel, the burial place of Daniel James. The chapel and grounds were at the point of dereliction until 2011 but have been restored.{{cite web |url=https://calonlancentre.info/about-the-calon-lan-project/ |title=About the Calon Lân project |website=Calon Lân Centre |access-date=8 January 2020}}