Coal In The Valley’s

There is coal in them yonder Welsh valleys

It lies deep down in the dark, underground

There’s been a sadness in them yonder valleys

There’s been a lot of hardship Around

Men work deep down under Greenfield's

In darkness they look for coal day and night

There have been disasters in them yonder valleys

Far beyond imagination or anyone’s control

I have lived there you see in the valleys

My late husband of miner, his age thirty-three

We were only wed for three years

When it all ended, as every mining wife fears

There was silence then and tears in the valley

100 good men, all died there below ground

Many tears flowed in our little green valley

Frightening silence, like a blanket all around

An explosion then after damp halted the rescue

sadness as no one came out alive,

Rescue workers still went helping and looking

The mayhem and carnage deep down below

Its 60 years since all of that happened

I have kept the memory to this day

I no longer live in the valleys

when my husband died I moved far away

I will always remember how happy we where there

Whenever he went deep down the coal mine

How relaxed and happy he was that horrible morning

When you said goodbye love, I will see you in a bit

I’m now over 90, in my mind my memory of that day still alive.

I still have love for the valleys, and my man that they took away