Lyrics
IN THE YEAR OF EIGHTEEN THIRTY ONE TEN THOUSAND WORKERS MARCHED AS ONE
AN INSURRECTION HAD BEGUN TO END THE DEBT OF SLAVERY
IRON WORKERS AND MINERS CAME AND LABOURERS TO BREAK THE CHAINS
UNITED IN THEIR COMMON CLAIM O ARGLWYDD DYMA ANWIREDD
HOIST THE FLAG BOLD AND RED CHANT THE SLOGAN CHEESE AND BREAD
TWENTY FOUR MEN LEFT FOR DEAD TO FOLLOW DIC PENDERYN
ONWARD BOUND TO MERTHYR TOWN TO BRING THE IRON MASTERS DOWN
THE VALLEYS RUMBLED TO THE SOUND JOIN THE MERTHYR RISING
THE WORKING PEOPLE OF THE DAY ROSE UP TO FIGHT FOR BETTER PAY
WITH SOLDIERS SENT TO BLOCK THEIR WAY AND SEND THEM TO THE VALLEYS
THEY CLASHED OUTSIDE THE CASTLE INN WITH PRIVATE DONALD BLACK WITHIN
A BAYONET DID PIERCE HIS SKIN AS HE LEPT INTO THE MELEE
THE SOLDIERS CAME THE CROWD DISPERSED WITH PEOPLE FEARING FOR THE WORSE
THE RADICALS WOULD FEEL THE CURSE OF CRAWSHAY AND HIS COURTIERS
TWENTY SIX MEN BOUND IN CHAINS LORD MELBOURNE HE WOULD STAKE HIS CLAIM
TO HANG ONE MAN AND WIPE THE STAIN OF SOCIALISTS AND MARTYRS
THE GUILTY SENT TO FOREIGN SHORES AND DIC PENDERYN FRAMED FOR SURE
THE SYSTEM ROTTEN TO THE CORE OH LORD THIS IS INJUSTICE
AS THOUSANDS SIGNED TO SET HIM FREE TO RIGHT THE WRONG OF HISTORY
DID TELL THE COURT TO CHANGE IT'S PLEA THIS MAN CANNOT BE GUILTY
FROM CARDIFF JAIL ONE EARLY MORN AS THOUSANDS CAME A DEATH TO MOURN
HIS INNOCENCE TO GOD HE SWORE I LAWR GYDA'R BRENIN
THROUGH THUNDER CLAP AND BLACKENED SKIES AT ST MARY'S CHURCH HIS BODY LIES
THROUGH ALL THESE YEARS YOU CAN'T DENY HE'S THE MARTYR OF THE WORKERS
