Here is the song often sung at rugby games.

HYMNS AND ARIAS
(Max Boyce)


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We paid our weekly shilling that January trip
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A long weekend in London without a bit of kip
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And there's a seat reserved for beer by the boys from Abercarn
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There's beer pontoon crisps and fags and a croaking Calon Lan.

Chorus
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And we were singing hymns and arias
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Land of my fathers Ar hyd a nos.

Into Paddington we did roll with an empty crate of ale
Will has lost at cards and now his Western Mail's for sale
But Will is very happy tho' his money all has gone
He swapped five photos of his wife for one of Barry John

Chorus

We got to Twickers early and were jostled in the crowd
Planted leeks and dragons looked for toilets all around
So many there we couldn't budge twisted legs and pale
So we had to use a bottle that once held bitter ale

Chorus

Wales defeated England in a fast and open game
We sang Cwm Rhondda and Delilah damn they sounded both the same
We sympathised with an Englishman whose team was doomed to fail
So we gave him that old bottle that once held bitter ale…..He started

Chorus

So it's down to Soho for the night to the girls with the shiny beads
To the funny men with lipstick on with evil minds and deeds
One said to Dai from a doorway dark damn she didn't have much on
But Will new what she wanted aye his photo of Barry John…..And she was

Chorus.