Just thought I'd add the lyrics to a Great Song I heard by Kyle Aughe form his CD "Not against my own". Aberfan 'Twas the twenty-first of October, on a foggy Friday morn And the children sang things beautiful and bright Their fathers dug the coal beneath the mountainside above And grew the tip that shattered all their lives For years the townsfolk worried of the spring beneath Merthr Vale Could it someday bring the slag upon the town? And on that fateful morning in the mining south of Wales Five hundred thousand tons came raining down CHORUS: On Aberfan, a hundred sixteen children, Aberfan So cruel a fate to will them There'll be no consolation for the coal board's washed their hands Of the blood of those young children in the town Of Aberfan They heard a distant rumble and it soon became a roar So quickly that they had no time to flee The parents and the miners dug frantically in vain Through tears that made it difficult to see The crown and her tribunal and the coal board had their say Empty words that fell on deafened ears New rules and regulations are not the prime concern When you're burying a child of seven years. CHORUS Since that day my father's never mined an ounce of coal For he lost a son and daughter in the slide He sees my brother James and sister Margaret in my eyes The torment and the grief will not subside Most days the memory lingers sometimes it starts to fade Till you see the hollow faces in a crowd And it brings back the resignation; 'twill never go away A generation lost beneath a shroud. CHORUS
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