The Bells Of Rhymney has recorded by artists from all over the world, but here is a little-known gem by Idris Davies which Pat and I recorded on our debut album, "Songs and Tunes from South Wales":

When April came to Rhymney
In shower and sun and shower
The green hills and the brown hills
Could sport some simple flower
And sweet it was to fancy
That even the blackest mound
Was proud of its single daisy
Rooted in bitter ground

And old men would remember
Young men would be vain
And the hawthorn by the pithead
Would blossom in the rain
And the blackest streets of evening
They had the finest hour
When April came to Rhymney
In shower and sun and shower.

Idris Davies was a great poet, and his name lives on in anthologies - but his untitled piece, which is part of the work Gwalia Deserta, fired the imagination of Pete Seeger and prominent artists everywhere.