The flooding of Tryweryn valley And the village of Capel Celyn ,

Ignited passions of the people of Wales

Who rallied for independence again?

Some trained in their valleys as young boys

And returned to their homes as men

Others route marched their way through Snowdonia In a bid for injustice to end

 

While the Liverpool Corporation

Razed homes to feed the greed

Of capitalist expansion The reason for this terrible deed

 

 

Villagers took their anger to Merseyside

Where they marched through the streets in vain

Their pleas were dismissed by the bureaucrats

Who callously ignored their pain?

Children went to their school for the last time

Tears fell on the desks where they sat

A final wedding took place in the chapel

Where the vicar he openly wept

 

As bulldozers waited with engines running

To clear the community

Many exhumed the bodies of loved ones

From the local cemetery

 

Now the young men who trained in the valleys

Fought back with revenge in their eyes

Exploding the pipelines to England

And exposing the government lies

Denis Coslett, Cayo Evans, John Jenkins

were but few of those who took part

To avenge the drowning of Tryweryn

Ran deep in their nation's heart

 

An apology came many years too late

To lay to rest the grief

Of a history cruelly stolen away

For the cause of industrial relief

Remember Tryweryn Remember Tryweryn

 

 

 

 

© Padraig Lalor 2005