What are the lyrics to Max Boyce hymns and arias?

Answer 1

We paid our weekly shilling for that January trip A long weekend in London, aye, without a bit of kip There's a seat reserved for beer by the boys from Abercarn There's beer, pontoon, crisps and fags and a croakin 'Calon Lan' And we were singing hymns and arias 'Land of my Fathers', 'Ar hyd y nos' Into Paddington we did roll with an empty crate of ale Will had lost at cards and now his Western Mail's for sale But Will is very happy though his money all has gone He swapped five photos of his wife for one of Barry John And we were singing hymns and arias 'Land of my Fathers', 'Ar hyd y nos' We told the guard that we're from Wales, and asked 'Is Twickers far?' He said "Man you can catch a 48 man, but it isn't very far" On the bus were boys from Blaina who'd been to see the Queen So we had a quick Gymanfa, aye, it was the greatest London's seen. 'cause we were singing hymns and arias 'Land of my Fathers', 'Ar hyd y nos' We got to Twickers early and were jostled in the crowd Planted leeks and dragons, looked for toilets all around So many there we couldn't budge -twisted legs and pale I'm ashamed we used a bottle that once held bitter ale And we were singing hymns and arias 'Land of my Fathers', 'Ar hyd y nos' Wales defeated England in a fast and open game We sang 'Cwm Rhondda' and 'Delilah' damn, they sounded both the same We sympathised with an Englishman whose team was doomed to fail So we gave him that old bottle, that once held bitter ale! He started singing hymns and arias 'Land of my Fathers', 'Ar hyd y nos' So it's down to Soho for the night to the girls with the shiny beads To the funny men with lipstick on with evil minds and deeds One said to Will from a doorway dark damn, she didn't have much on But Will knew what she wanted aye...his photo of Barry John! 'Cos she was singing hymns and arias 'Land of my Fathers', 'Ar hyd y nos'