FAREWELL TO THE RHONDDA sums up the carefree days of "You've never had it so good" in the 1950s and 60s, when lots of jobs were available elsewhere (i.e. England).

Max Boyce's DUW, IT'S HARD is a more reflective, wistful view of the effects of the 1970s closures.

The bitterness of the last-ditch fights of the 1980s is brilliantly encapsulated in Dave Rogers' MAERDY (The Last Pit in the Rhondda).

But for the sheer destruction and desolation of the Depression it has to be Idris Davies' BELLS OF RHYMNEY, written around 1927, published in 1938, but not set to music until Pete Seeger did it in 1959.