I wrote a song called A Tale Of Two Rivers, about many Welsh miners crossing the Atlantic to work in the American mines, from Scranton, Pennsylvania, down south to Virginia and as far west as Arizona and California. It was the theme song of a show called A Tale Of Two Rivers, again written by me, sponsored by the former Taff-Ely council (Taff and Ely - two rivers - Geddit?) A bevy of Welsh dancers, storytellers and me and Pat as Calennig took on tour around the South Wales and to America, where the gigantic Festival Of Wales in Harrisburg offered to pay for it.

Unfortunately my massive stroke impeded that. We were planning to record it on a CD, but I sat and watched the others jet off to Harrisburg. The CD was put on hold and Calennig broke up. Now, Pat Smith and Ned Clamp have recorded The Tale Of Two Rivers, so it won't disappear altogether.

Other songs of emigration: The wonderful ballad-poet Harri Webb wrote The Stars Of Mexico, and the beautiful Patagonia (about the Welsh-speaking Christian emigrants who set sail for a land far away.