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Thunder rolled and the rain came down St. Mary St
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But on this day thousands stood their ground
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A silent crowd who's heads are bowed in helplessness
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Bid farewell
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And the wife of a Richard Penderyn
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Supported there to weak to stand
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Disbelieving anger and sorrow
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For her innocent man,
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an innocent man
[Chorus]
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She says, lift me up oh lift me boys
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Let me see the one I love
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Lift me up oh lift me now
Dm A Dm
Let me see the man I love one more time
[Bridge]
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[Verse 2]
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Broken by starvation and poverty
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While the iron masters sip their wine
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Young and old together marched for justice
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But the bayonet and the bullet's what they find
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"Bread or blood" cried a collier
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"We've come too far lads now to run"
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But in our Myther town in 1831
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They were cut down by the government guns
[Verse 3]
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And in the midst of senseless slaughter
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A soldier wounded in the thigh
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Who later swore on oath at the trial
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That Dic Penderyn was not the guy
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And though he stood for everything they wanted
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And rose with his people on that day
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It could not have been he that harmed the soldier
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But some there with a grudge put him away
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Said they'd stitch him up some day
[Bridge]
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[Verse 4]
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Despite petitions and cries for mercy
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All that the facts had to say
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Neither king nor his parliament would listen
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Even the judge was turned away
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So hey Lord Melbourne how did you sleep then
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With all that evidence in your face
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Well you shot down 24 so why not hang someone?
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Got to keep those workers in their place
[Bridge]
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[Verse 5]
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He slowly climbs the steps to the gallows pole
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The last few moments of a life
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As his eyes survey the crowd of gallant Welsh
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He's looking for his wife,
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he can't see his wife
[Bridge]
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[Chorus]
F/A Bb Csus4 C
She says, lift me up oh lift me boys
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Let me see the one I love
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Lift me up oh lift me boys
Dm A Dm
Let me see the man I love one more time
[Bridge]
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[Verse 6]
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So louder and longer than the sound of guns
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Is the memory of what was done
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Well you can only trample people down for so long
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Time will show you have not won
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And long before all this on a hill in Palestine
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They strung another one up they say was a friend of yours and mine
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Dying in the place of another one
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But in the morning comes the sun
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In the morining the sun
[Bridge]
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[Chorus]
F/A Bb Csus4 C
Lift me up oh lift me
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Let me see the one I love
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Lift me up oh lift me now
F/A Bb Csus4 C
Let me see the one I love one more time
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Lift me up oh lift me, boys
F/A Bb Csus4 C
Let me see the one I love one more time
F/A Bb Csus4 C
Lift me up oh lift me boys
Dm
Let me see the one I love
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One more time
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One more time
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One more time