Paddy Reilly - Farewell To The Rhonda Chords

[Intro]
 
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[Chorus]
 
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Farewell the colliery worker, the muffler and the cap.
     Eb                              Bb
Farewell you Rhonda valley girls we never will come back
                      Eb                      Eb/G        F
The mines they are a-closing and the valleys they're all doomed.
        Bb              Eb                 F            Bb
There's no work in the Rhonda boys, we'll be in London soon.
 
 
[Verse 1]
 
    Bb                         Eb
My father was a miner and his father was before him
         F                              Bb
They've always had been proud to work below
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Since they fell neath Robin's axe
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All the lads have had the sack
     F                             Bb
So away to work in England we must go.
 
 
[Chorus]
 
Bb
Farewell the colliery worker, the muffler and the cap.
     Eb                              Bb
Farewell you Rhonda valley girls we never will come back
                      Eb                      Eb/G        F
The mines they are a-closing and the valleys they're all doomed.
        Bb              Eb                 F            Bb
There's no work in the Rhonda boys, we'll be in London soon.
 
 
[Verse 2]
 
    Bb                            Eb
No more the chapel singing, that long ago has left us,
        F                                Bb
in the public house, no more the miners song.
         Bb                                    Eb
For the pit-wheels, they are stopping and the population's dropping.
        F                              Bb
And I can't afford to stay here very long.
 
 
[Chorus]
 
Bb
Farewell the colliery worker, the muffler and the cap.
     Eb                              Bb
Farewell you Rhonda valley girls we never will come back
                      Eb                      Eb/G        F
The mines they are a-closing and the valleys they're all doomed.
        Bb              Eb                 F            Bb
There's no work in the Rhonda boys, we'll be in London soon.
 
 
[Verse 3]
 
    Bb                       Eb
Treherbert and Treorchy, Tonypandy and Tynewydd,
         F                       Bb
Ystrad Rhondda, Ton Pentre all adieu,
       Bb                            Eb
For I can no longer wait, while the parliament debates,
       F                              Bb
So a fond farewell I'll bid to all of you.
 
 
[Chorus]
 
Bb
Farewell the colliery worker, the muffler and the cap.
     Eb                              Bb
Farewell you Rhonda valley girls we never will come back
                      Eb                      Eb/G        F
The mines they are a-closing and the valleys they're all doomed.
        Bb              Eb                 F            Bb
There's no work in the Rhonda boys, we'll be in London soon.
 
 
[Outro]
 
Bb
Farewell the colliery worker, the muffler and the cap.
     Eb                              Bb
Farewell you Rhonda valley girls we never will come back
                      Eb                      Eb/G        F
The mines they are a-closing and the valleys they're all doomed.
        Bb              Eb                 F            Bb
There's no work in the Rhonda boys, we'll be in London soon.