Dic Penderyn Songtext
von Martyn Joseph

Thunder rolled and the rain came down St. Mary′s Street
But on this day a thousand stood their ground
A silent crowd whose heads are bowed in helplessness
Bid farewell
And the wife of a Richard Penderyn
Supported there, too weak to stand
Disbelief and anger and sorrow
For her innocent man
An innocent man

She said, "Lift me up, oh lift me, boys
Let me see the one I love
Lift me up, oh lift me, boys
Let me see the man I love one more time"


Broken by starvation and poverty
While the iron masters sip their wine
Young and old together marched for justice
But the bayonet and the bullet's what they find
And "bread or blood," a cry to Collier
"We′ve come too far, lads, now to run"
But in Armherster town in 1831
They were cut down by the government guns
And in the midst of senseless slaughter
A soldier wounded in the thigh
Who later swore on oath at the trial
Dick Penderyn was not the guy
And though he stood for everything they wanted
And rose with his people on that day
Well, it could not have been he that harmed the soldier
But some there with a grudge put him away
Said they'd stitch him up someday
Despite petitions then and cries for mercy
All that the facts had to say
Neither king nor his parliament would listen
Even the judge was turned away
So hey Lord Melbourne, how did you sleep then
With all that evidence in your face?
Well you shut down 24, so why not hang someone?
Yeah, you got to keep those workers in their place
And he slowly climbed the steps to the gallows pole
The last few moments of a life
As his eyes survey the crowd of gallant Welsh
He's looking for his wife
He can′t see his wife

She said, "Lift me up, oh lift me, boys
Let me see the one I love
Lift me up, oh lift me, boys
Let me see the man I love one more time"

So louder and longer than the sound of guns
Is the memory of what was done
Well, you can only trample people down for so long
Time will show you have not won
And long before all this on a hill in Palestine
They strung another one up they say 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


Lift me up, oh lift me
Let me see the one I love
Lift me up, oh lift me, love
Let me see the one I love one more time
Lift me up, oh lift me, boys
Let me see the one I love one more time
Lift me up, oh lift me, boys
Let me see the one I love
One more time
One more time
One more time