Lyr Add: Who Is Dic Penderyn? (Raymond Humphries)

Subject: Lyr Add: WHO IS DIC PENDERYN? (Raymond Humphries)
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 31 Jul 05 - 05:43 PM

Lyr. Add: Who Is Dic Penderyn?
Raymond Humphries

Who's this Dic Penderyn then?
He was Mrs. Lewis's son, wasn't he?
He was just one of the ordinary men-
a man like you and me.

He might have raised a strike or two,
not doffed his cap to the Master's Man.
But tell me, just what else did he do?
Comme on, tell me if you can.

He was an Aberavon boy;
not even a Merthyr man.
He only stirred up to annoy;
to spoil the Master's plan.

Anyway, Ieuan Parker stabbed that Scot:
I saw it all myself.
They say it's all a plot,
but I think Dic brought it on himself.

We poor folks should know our place,
not try to rise above our station.
There's them that's made for silks and lace,
An' us what knows our limitation.

So who's this Dic Penderyn then?
He was Mrs. Lewis's son, wasn't he?
He was just one of the ordinary men-
a man like you and me.

Dic Penderyn
Raymond Humphries

I found this poem while looking up Dic Penderyn, mentioned in Abby Sale's Almanac thread Happy? - July 31: Happy?

A much longer song is "Dic Penderyn" by Martyn Joseph.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: DIC PENDERYN
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 31 Jul 05 - 07:35 PM

"Dic Penderyn (The Ballad of Richard Lewis)," Martyn Joseph, (distributed by Pipe Records).
Lyrics here: Martyn Joseph

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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: DIC PENDERYN
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 31 Jul 05 - 07:38 PM

Joseph address was www.piperecords.co.uk/martyn/resource/mjlyrics.pdf.

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