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martyn joseph - dic penderyn lyrics

[verse 1]
thunder rolled and the rain came down st. mary street
but on this day thousands stood their ground
a silent crowd whose heads are bowed in helplessness
as they bid farewell

[verse 2]
and the wife of a richard penderyn
supported there too weak to stand
disbelieving anger and sorrow
for her innocent man, he is an innocent man
and out there she says

[chorus]
“lift me up, ah, lift me boys
let me see the one i love
lift me up, ah, lift me boys
see the one i love one more time”

[verse 3]
broken by starvation and poverty
while the iron masters sip down their wine
well, young and old together marched for justice
but the bayonet and the bullet’s what they find

[verse 4]
and “bread or blood” had cried one collier
“we’ve come too far lads to run”
but in our merthyr town in 1831
they were shot down by the government and the gun
[verse 5]
in the midst there of senseless slaughter
one soldier wounded in the thigh
and he laid a sworn+on oath at the trial
said dic penderyn was simply not the guy

[verse 6]
and though he stood for everything they’d wanted
and he rose up with his people on that day
well, it could not have been he that harmed that soldier
but some there with a grudge put him away
they said we’ll stitch you up the day

[verse 7]
despite petitions then, and cries for mercy
all that the facts had to say
neither king nor his parliament were gonna listen
and even the trial judge, you know, was simply turned away

[verse 8]
hey, lord melbourne, how did you sleep way back then
with all that evidence in your face?
well, you shot down twenty+four so why not go hang someone, yeah?
ah, you got to keep the workers in their place
keep those welsh boys in their place
[verse 9]
and he slowly climbs the steps to the gallows pole
this is the last few moments of a life
and as his eyes survey the crowd of gallant welsh
he’s simply looking for his wife
you know he cannot see his wife
and out there she says

[chorus]
“lift me up, ah, lift me boys
let me see the one i love
lift me up, ah, lift me boys
see the man i love one more time”

[verse 10]
but louder and longer than the sound of a gun
is the memory of what was done
and you can only trample people down for so long, my friend
and time will show you that you simply have not won

[verse 11]
and long before all this on a hill in palestine
well, they strung another one up they said was a friend of yours and mine
dying in the place of another one
but in the morning comes the sun
in the morning the sun, woah, and i say
[chorus]
lift me up, ah, lift me boys
let me see the one i love
lift me up, ah, lift me boys
see the one i love one more time
lift me up, ah, lift me boys
see the one i love one more time
lift me up, ah, lift me boys
see the one i love one more time
one more time
one more time

- martyn joseph lyrics

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