I am not welsh but I spent sometime working in Aberdovey and got know quite a few welsh people I was stranger but I received a warm welcome from a very friendly people. I heard a lot welsh songs and grew to love the people. I listen to the songs of David Alexander and they take back to the happiest days of life and remind me of the people I left behind when I returned home. I would love to back one day.
Nova Scotia, canada here, just wanting to say hello. My roots are actually from Wales, and I was there one time, to Raglan Castle, Abergavanny?...maybe...lol...long time ago...but I'll never forget it!💖💕💖
Hello from Nova Scotia, Canada........Sounds like a wonderful place, full of memories for many.....I went to Raglan castle one time ,long ago, and was so proud to set foot in my " homeland!"....👍💖🙂
i was born in the valleys but live in England now, everytime i go back to visit my family its like coming home, you can take the girl out of the valleys but you can't take the valleys out of the girl :) xxx
It's good that you are proud of your roots. Unfortunately, I don't think many of today's youngsters would shed even a single tear if they were to move to Australia like you did. You are better off where you are now but cherish your memories of the Rhondda past. It was a better place then. We have gone backwards. Thank your lucky stars that you missed the dreadful Thatcher years - policies that destroyed our way of life as we knew it. Good luck to you.
SuperBC10 think you have taken that message and stereotyped the younger Rhondda Generation. I am 24 and been traveling for 5 years (with uni, Asia and the job) and trust me I miss the Rhondda! I am very proud and I know ALOT of my pals are very proud. So stop with the stereotypes
The Rhondda and many other vallets were scarred for years with tips which were extremely dangerous also. The valleys are much more picturesque these days but it is the people that make the community, so its up to thos living. It is much more difficult now as all the heavy industry dissapeared making the valleys residential areas and not industrial. These does not help community spirit as people travel to work not work locally. You can never re create that with the mines closed as hundreds of us used to work in the same place, walk home, play rugby together, drinkt together etc. This will never return so the communities need to adapt and try to maintain old values. It is not easy for the yoinger generation to find work in the valleys at all.
I grew up in the South Wales valleys, in the former mining town of Bargoed. Once a vibrant town until the pits closed in 1977. I left Bargoed in November 2015 to move to Poole in Dorset. One day I shall come back, ...yes, one day.
i fell in love with the Rhondda in 1977 when i went with my hubby delivering metal mesh to a mine in the mountain could only get to it on a swing bridge ,scary because of the drop .i'm English but have always felt i was going home each time i visited any part of wales ,
I moved from the Rhondda to Australia to live with my son and family buy like the old saying you can take the boy out of the valleys but you cant take the valleys out of the boy i still miss my old friends and work mates
I remember travelling by coach from Victoria station to Swanse to visit my granparents back in the 50s and the miners coming off shift and walking home ..faces black with coaldust..I will never forget those faces and god bless every one of them.
Love this song. Played it at my Dad's funeral a few months ago. A Llwynypia lad, I felt it paid tribute to him and to all those lads who had to go away to work. My Mum, an Ystrad girl, would have loved it too. Thanks, Chris, for linking me back with my roots. Bless you.
Thank you, Chris. My Dad left the Rhondda to look for work, just as in the song. He lived away for 60 years but was still always a Valleys boy and lies now on the top of Penrhys. The song fitted him so beautifully and it does make me tearful very often.
You can take the person out of Wales, but you can’t take Wales out of the person, not from the Rhondda myself, but from the next valley over the Rhymney Valley, will never forget my roots, even my son, who was born in Coventry regards himself as Welsh and as proud of the fact as I am.
I'm not of Welsh decent, but I grew up with a lot of Welshmen and pulled coal from a great many men from all over the world.I'm a singer at heart, once was a tenor and I appreciate the music of David Alexander, Chris Kavanah, Tom Jones and all the rest of the great tenors. My voice used to echo through the entries and rooms of some of the mines in the Valley of the Red Deer River. I find it so disheartening to listen to those who don't appreciate a good voice.
This song is so true when my Grandad left the army he went to Southampton as a Tram driver, but his heart was always in the Rhondda Valley. At 12 years he worked in the Albion pit near Pontypridd and lived in Albion Terrace
Dearly love the valleys lived in gelli rhonnda for some time drank in the old gelli galled when Gill and John ran it made loads of life time friends in the rhonnda I moved back to Ireland in twenty six but not a day goes by but I think of the valley folk and every chance I get I go back and can't wait to visit again,,, so , from here to there god bless for now until we meet again ,,
im from scotland i can assure everyone in scotland remembers this theres hardly 1 charity i go to without hearing this song with a lot of heart into it god bless the families that have lost and cant be replaced
I am part welsh and part English as my mother was welsh and my father was a londoner but I do consider my to be WELSH through and through and I love the welsh music and as they said never forget your WELSH
Thank you for this - it's one of the songs that I love. I'm from Ponty but moved to Australia in 1994 when the last of my family in Ponty died. My mum had remarried and moved out here in 1986. My grandfather had 'Myfanwy' played at his funeral in Glyntaff Crematorium and that's another song that kills me to listen to. Whilst I live so far away, I am and always will be Welsh and very proud of it too.
I moved to Devon 3 years ago, i always listen to this song when i want to reflect on my upbringing, it was a hard life even in the 80's and 90's, i will always think of my home land with this song! cheers Chris!
Lovely song done very nice, I am a Rhondda boy from way back - born Treherbert 1939 - been in South Australia since leaving RAF in 1969 my father worked underground at Fernhill and said he would never let me work down there in the black! - Good on 'Yer butt.
what a beautiful song my mam came from tonnypandy chris and meet my dad who was from scotland came up here and my dad was in the pits from 13 to his untimly death at 49 il never forget my welsh roots and if history be told churchill the tory b======d turned the troops on the welsh miiners saying drive the rats back to there holes my granda being one of the miners that day cymru an byth
The true hardiness of the Welsh Coal Miner captured in poignant photographs and stirring words. The Rhondda felt the weight of every ton of coal extracted by its peoples. A well done production.
am from south wales and my brother still today is a miner.... one of not many that are left ... and after the light of last weeks Gleision disaster and the loss of 4 brave men one of whom i knew.. it brings home just how dangerous and hard their lives actually are RIP to 4 brave boys xxxx .
Im proud to be welsh the tori basta..s robbed us for what we truly knew im only 24 but my grandad was apart of the mining community even dug those from aberfan in 66 And to this day he says be grateful that I wasn't part of the 84 strike where they called my grandfather a scab If you know you know i love the stories he tells and for what the Welsh had to do I love you granch but the pit got the better of him and doesn't do anything on the account of his chest he also might have cancer now I love you gramps your my idol I love you ❤️
Do your history Labour closed more mines than the Tories in the 70s. Sadly it became a war between Scargill and Thatcher & there was only going to be one winner. We in Wales have had Labour rule for over 20 years & look at the mess of this once great country is in with every valley town a shit hole & sadly its getting worse we need a change someone who actually cares for the working class people in this country.
what a great lyrics to a song which is probably the best love song anywhere in the world,and sung equally by a great singer with a terrific voice. bendigedig.
I love your version of this song.... I may not be a Rhondda girl but I moved here and I have never felt such a connection to one place here in Ferndale.... Well done Chris... This never fails to bring a tear to my eye! x
@L4MBYPIE ill never forget my heritage im proud to be a rhondda boy through and through.... The Rhondda was practically the most important part of the world but no one cares anymore if u ask someone do they know where it is years ago they would know anywhere around the world but not now they are more conserned about major cities not valleys :( Miss the old valleys tbhh xx
As Im from the valleys now I understand Why they sang this song :)) My grandfather worked down the mines and its awful conditions as I seen for myself when I went down them recently :(( Im not Very tall but I kept hitting my head so I feel for all the miners :(( god bless you all x x
You could swear there was no such thing as mines up the rhondda i live and travel through them everyday and the only thing tho remind you it was a big industial place it the Rhondda Heritage Park and my Grandfathers.
Just to let everyone know - the music for this recording was put together by myself Andy of Andys Tracks - glad to see everyone is enjoying the track/recording so much! - yours Andy
on a cd i have there is a track called i love you ... i played it at my husbands funeral but i cant bring it up on this site do you know why.... the words mean so much to me
This song is new to me, and I love it!!.......I live in Nova Scotia, Canada, but my roots are from Wales, and am so very proud to say so!👍💖🙂
I am not welsh but I spent sometime working in Aberdovey and got know quite a few welsh people I was stranger but I received a warm welcome from a very friendly people. I heard a lot welsh songs and grew to love the people. I listen to the songs of David Alexander and they take back to the happiest days of life and remind me of the people I left behind when I returned home. I would love to back one day.
Nova Scotia, canada here, just wanting to say hello. My roots are actually from Wales, and I was there one time, to Raglan Castle, Abergavanny?...maybe...lol...long time ago...but I'll never forget it!💖💕💖
YOU ARE VERY WELCOME TO WALES ANYTIME, WELSH CAKES AND TEA IS WAITING FOR YOUR RETURN.🎅🤶🎶😊🤗😊🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴
I could have written that Stanley, this brings a tear to my eye.
Tidy job --as we Taffy's say
You are welcome to Wales anytime butty,especially in the Rhondda 🏴🏴
My husband wanted to come home years ago so we just packed up and came home and he's passed away in the place he loved so much ❤️❤️
Rose Murtagh sorry to hear that he passed away, but at least he's where he loved
Cymru am beth 😍
So proud to be Welsh 🏴🏴
I left home a long time ago to join the army, I will go home, even if its in a box, I will go home. A privilege to be born Welsh.
Well done mate, you're doing your country proud
+Lionel Hamm . Thank you.
I hope you are home by now
Thank you, Lionel. On behalf of your country. Blessed be x
British by birth, Welsh by the grace of God.
there's only one Rhondda valleys and I'm proud to say I'm part of it!!!
I am a Rhondda boy my name is nathan page
Hello from Nova Scotia, Canada........Sounds like a wonderful place, full of memories for many.....I went to Raglan castle one time ,long ago, and was so proud to set foot in my " homeland!"....👍💖🙂
my beautiful home
i was born in the valleys but live in England now, everytime i go back to visit my family its like coming home, you can take the girl out of the valleys but you can't take the valleys out of the girl :) xxx
babeswerock hello please go home if your heart is there.
That is right
I was one that left - so sad. I do return annually - still sad.
It's good that you are proud of your roots. Unfortunately, I don't think many of today's youngsters would shed even a single tear if they were to move to Australia like you did. You are better off where you are now but cherish your memories of the Rhondda past. It was a better place then. We have gone backwards. Thank your lucky stars that you missed the dreadful Thatcher years - policies that destroyed our way of life as we knew it. Good luck to you.
SuperBC10 think you have taken that message and stereotyped the younger Rhondda Generation. I am 24 and been traveling for 5 years (with uni, Asia and the job) and trust me I miss the Rhondda! I am very proud and I know ALOT of my pals are very proud. So stop with the stereotypes
SuperBC10 good
The Rhondda and many other vallets were scarred for years with tips which were extremely dangerous also. The valleys are much more picturesque these days but it is the people that make the community, so its up to thos living. It is much more difficult now as all the heavy industry dissapeared making the valleys residential areas and not industrial. These does not help community spirit as people travel to work not work locally. You can never re create that with the mines closed as hundreds of us used to work in the same place, walk home, play rugby together, drinkt together etc. This will never return so the communities need to adapt and try to maintain old values. It is not easy for the yoinger generation to find work in the valleys at all.
Gwent lad finally return home last yeah after 12 years old friends still the same just a little older and alot wiser love Walsh
I grew up in the South Wales valleys, in the former mining town of Bargoed. Once a vibrant town until the pits closed in 1977. I left Bargoed in November 2015 to move to Poole in Dorset. One day I shall come back, ...yes, one day.
Aberbargoed boy born in Commercial Street, still miss my country to this day, go back every chance I get, so proud to be a Welshman.
hi andrew im from new tredegar. bargoed is on the up thanks to re development. stay safe friend shaun gunter
@@caslox god bless i have alot of family from aberbargoed
i fell in love with the Rhondda in 1977 when i went with my hubby delivering metal mesh to a mine in the mountain could only get to it on a swing bridge ,scary because of the drop .i'm English but have always felt i was going home each time i visited any part of wales ,
Beautiful song.lovely singer.keep playing it.thanks so much.😂
I moved from the Rhondda to Australia to live with my son and family buy like the old saying you can take the boy out of the valleys but you cant take the valleys out of the boy i still miss my old friends and work mates
I remember travelling by coach from Victoria station to Swanse to visit my granparents back in the 50s and the miners coming off shift and walking home ..faces black with coaldust..I will never forget those faces and god bless every one of them.
My home town porth
When men were men
Respect 🙏 🏴🏴
I’m a former miner here in wales I’m a proud man
All miner's were proud and very brave, God bless.
I'm so glad that I am welsh
Love this song. Played it at my Dad's funeral a few months ago. A Llwynypia lad, I felt it paid tribute to him and to all those lads who had to go away to work. My Mum, an Ystrad girl, would have loved it too. Thanks, Chris, for linking me back with my roots. Bless you.
Thank you, I'm glad it paid tribute to your Dad
Thank you, Chris. My Dad left the Rhondda to look for work, just as in the song. He lived away for 60 years but was still always a Valleys boy and lies now on the top of Penrhys. The song fitted him so beautifully and it does make me tearful very often.
You can take the person out of Wales, but you can’t take Wales out of the person, not from the Rhondda myself, but from the next valley over the Rhymney Valley, will never forget my roots, even my son, who was born in Coventry regards himself as Welsh and as proud of the fact as I am.
Sorry for your loss , 💕this is a beautiful Song I could cry I’m from Ireland this is one of the sadest songs I’ve heard 🍀🍀
I'm not of Welsh decent, but I grew up with a lot of Welshmen and pulled coal from a great many men from all over the world.I'm a singer at heart, once was a tenor and I appreciate the music of David Alexander, Chris Kavanah, Tom Jones and all the rest of the great tenors. My voice used to echo through the entries and rooms of some of the mines in the Valley of the Red Deer River. I find it so disheartening to listen to those who don't appreciate a good voice.
Respect 👍 Cymru am byth.
"GOD BLESS" all hard rock miners. RIP. WE love you all, gone but not forgotten............ Dav.
This song is so true when my Grandad left the army he went to Southampton as a Tram driver, but his heart was always in the Rhondda Valley. At 12 years he worked in the Albion pit near Pontypridd and lived in Albion Terrace
George. Kennedy
I proud to say that I am born and raised in the Rhondda valleys
Hi pretty lady. How are you doing today?????
Dearly love the valleys lived in gelli rhonnda for some time drank in the old gelli galled when Gill and John ran it made loads of life time friends in the rhonnda I moved back to Ireland in twenty six but not a day goes by but I think of the valley folk and every chance I get I go back and can't wait to visit again,,, so , from here to there god bless for now until we meet again ,,
im from scotland i can assure everyone in scotland remembers this theres hardly 1 charity i go to without hearing this song with a lot of heart into it god bless the families that have lost and cant be replaced
Love this song my dad was a valley boy sadly missed every day xxxxxxxxxx
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I am part welsh and part English as my mother was welsh and my father was a londoner but I do consider my to be WELSH through and through and I love the welsh music and as they said never forget your WELSH
I love this song brings back so many memories of my grandad (kenny francis) xx
I love this song I am for poth
This song for my grandad pass on the 21st october not see me turn 40 and see me grow up to be the granson welsh man he love and he in my heat everyday
Great voice great song !
Beautiful voice
Csodálatos dal és hang.
Thank you for this - it's one of the songs that I love. I'm from Ponty but moved to Australia in 1994 when the last of my family in Ponty died. My mum had remarried and moved out here in 1986. My grandfather had 'Myfanwy' played at his funeral in Glyntaff Crematorium and that's another song that kills me to listen to.
Whilst I live so far away, I am and always will be Welsh and very proud of it too.
I moved to Devon 3 years ago, i always listen to this song when i want to reflect on my upbringing, it was a hard life even in the 80's and 90's, i will always think of my home land with this song! cheers Chris!
Also dedicated to the wives and children who followed them.
Lovely song done very nice, I am a Rhondda boy from way back - born Treherbert 1939 - been in South Australia since leaving RAF in 1969 my father worked underground at Fernhill and said he would never let me work down there in the black! - Good on 'Yer butt.
My dear father was miner a hard working miner just like all the other miners they done a greet job rest rip love dad
I love this song
My dad work in the miners to
Love this song 👌 Maerdy boy born and bread :)
I just discovered this - it's beautiful.
My dad did same 1952 no work joined railways in africa. Loved wales died here
Very sentimental ❤
When one of your ancestors was a welsh coal miner and hence you start learning welsh.
what a beautiful song my mam came from tonnypandy chris and meet my dad who was from scotland came up here and my dad was in the pits from 13 to his untimly death at 49 il never forget my welsh roots and if history be told churchill the tory b======d turned the troops on the welsh miiners saying drive the rats back to there holes my granda being one of the miners that day
cymru an byth
wow awesome thanks for sharing
What a good song I sing this on a karaoke
Lovely photos. I’m originally from pontypridd. I really miss the place.
The true hardiness of the Welsh Coal Miner captured in poignant photographs and stirring words. The Rhondda felt the weight of every ton of coal extracted by its peoples. A well done production.
proud. to. be. Welsh. I. would. love. to. return. to. the Rhondda. where I. was. born. and. the. singers are. fantastic.
Some of the best singers come from Wales and I'm proud to say I'm welsh xx
Definite flavour of Country & Western tune!!
My grandad was one of these boys. We go to Porth cawl every year. Lovely place x
I moved to Treorchy in the Rhondda valley 3yrs ago, the Welsh are so welcoming, such a community spirit, I feel I am truly home
am from south wales and my brother still today is a miner.... one of not many that are left ... and after the light of last weeks Gleision disaster and the loss of 4 brave men one of whom i knew.. it brings home just how dangerous and hard their lives actually are RIP to 4 brave boys xxxx
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Im proud to be welsh the tori basta..s robbed us for what we truly knew im only 24 but my grandad was apart of the mining community even dug those from aberfan in 66 And to this day he says be grateful that I wasn't part of the 84 strike where they called my grandfather a scab If you know you know i love the stories he tells and for what the Welsh had to do I love you granch but the pit got the better of him and doesn't do anything on the account of his chest he also might have cancer now I love you gramps your my idol I love you ❤️
Do your history Labour closed more mines than the Tories in the 70s.
Sadly it became a war between Scargill and Thatcher & there was only going to be one winner. We in Wales have had Labour rule for over 20 years & look at the mess of this once great country is in with every valley town a shit hole & sadly its getting worse we need a change someone who actually cares for the working class people in this country.
Amen im coming ❤❤❤
Thy bring back memories
In memory of Ray xx
Giffac Goch amen by the park amem ❤❤❤
what a great lyrics to a song which is probably the best love song anywhere in the world,and sung equally by a great singer with a terrific voice. bendigedig.
Thank you Elgan for your kind words
Chris English do you have a cd out on release plz
living in port Talbot now dai is coming home stanleytown boy miss it
I love this song me and my nan sin g this all the time
Amen uncle ron edwards amen ❤❤❤
Amazein at the start and all the way boy )
Mam Fach ❤❤
come home rhondda girl!
Amen jeues almity ❤❤❤
Beautiful!
Such a beautiful song and sung well with so much passion and feeling xx
Thanks Angie
we r welsh dont think anymore need 2 b said. god bless all the miners
Absolutely Beautiful,?
great video
Beautiful- thankyou!
B Horton Thank you
Great song, sung by a great Artist
Densal amen ❤❤❤
I love your version of this song.... I may not be a Rhondda girl but I moved here and I have never felt such a connection to one place here in Ferndale.... Well done Chris... This never fails to bring a tear to my eye! x
Thank you Eleanor
love these songs so much full of passion
Ivor Spencer Protheroe Thank you Ivor
@L4MBYPIE ill never forget my heritage im proud to be a rhondda boy through and through.... The Rhondda was practically the most important part of the world but no one cares anymore if u ask someone do they know where it is years ago they would know anywhere around the world but not now they are more conserned about major cities not valleys :( Miss the old valleys tbhh xx
Bampi amen ❤❤❤
Tonnareval❤❤❤
As Im from the valleys now I understand Why they sang this song :)) My grandfather worked down the mines and its awful conditions as I seen for myself when I went down them recently :(( Im not Very tall but I kept hitting my head so I feel for all the miners :(( god bless you all x x
Hi
@welshragdoll Thank you for your comment. The beauty of this song is that it has a place in so many peoples hearts, i love singing it.
I was in the west minester singers when we did the backing with David Alexander siging rohnd
Rohnderboy
This is a wonderful rendition of this song Chris. Very moving my friend. Thank you for this great upload.
You could swear there was no such thing as mines up the rhondda i live and travel through them everyday and the only thing tho remind you it was a big industial place it the Rhondda Heritage Park and my Grandfathers.
Proud men !
Just to let everyone know - the music for this recording was put together by myself Andy of Andys Tracks - glad to see everyone is enjoying the track/recording so much! - yours Andy
Beautiful song.
Thank you
Hi mate, this track was purchased from Pinewood Audio. As are all of my tracks.
david was amazing
so great song
Hi pretty lady. How are you doing today???
Great words well sung
Séamus G. O’Dwyer Thank you
Beautiful, but even more beautiful when sung by Tom Jones.
Hi pretty lady. How are you doing today????
NOT YET, I SEE. COME FORTH.
This is a song for David clweyd bow dad you are home rest in peace dad love and miss you love Darryn xx
Shocking leave it there no feeling no heart
R.I.P:
Great job
+bazthehandyman Thank you Baz
on a cd i have there is a track called i love you ... i played it at my husbands funeral but i cant bring it up on this site do you know why.... the words mean so much to me
@teenyweenylightsout Thanks for your kind words
@shane2k9 , times move on, thats why its important not to forget our heritage
@anangelinurpocket Thank you, no doubt your Dad would have been a proud Rhondda Boy
First I thought it was a spin-off of Myfanwy