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Thread #63933   Message #1044458
Posted By: Jim Dixon
30-Oct-03 - 08:50 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: We'll Keep a Welcome (Joshua/Harper/Jones
Subject: Lyr Add: WE'LL KEEP A WELCOME (Jones/Joshua/Harper
Information and lyrics copied from a website called The Songs of Shirley Bassey:

We'll Keep a Welcome

also titled:

We'll Keep a Welcome on the Hillsides

Music written by Mai Jones. Lyrics by Lyn Joshua and James Harper.

Released 1999 on the various artists album Land of My Fathers together with The Black Mountain Male Chorus and the Buy As You View Cory Band.
Shirley Bassey had already performed the song publicly 1986 in the Des O'Connor's Christmas Show together with Des and Tom Jones. In connection to the album she has again performed it together with Bryn Terfel and Michael Ball during the Rugby World Cup 1999 closing ceremony (November 6th) before the final game. Unlike World In Union this song had been performed live in front of thousands in the stadion and on the TV screens.

The album has the following note about this song:The song had originally been published in Cardiff in 1943. It became famous after singer and actor Harry Secombe performed it on his TV programme Highway about 1949.

Lyrics: