dedicated to Aber Valley male Voice Choir
Mar 3, 2014 13:28:12 GMT -6
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Post by hazelmsmith on Mar 3, 2014 13:28:12 GMT -6
I was asked this weekend by members of the Aber Valley Male Voice Choir in Wales why it is that I will travel almost 200 miles to see them in concert with regularity, and as I sat on the train coming back home, I found myself with the tune Ar Hyd y Nos (All through the night) in my head and I scribbled down the following words
From the valleys of my heartland
Your music calls,
Lifts my spirit when I hear you
With each note that falls,
Raising joy and hope within me,
As your songs flow oh so sweetly,
Filling my heart so completely
And so I come....
To your valleys filled with music
My heart is drawn,
Where there's singing and there's laughter
and new friendships born
With you all my soul is singing,
Somehow there I feel belonging,
So with joyful footsteps dancing
To you I come....
Maybe it's the Welsh blood in me
Calls me away,
Who can tell what speaks to my soul
In such a way,
But you folk of Aber Valley
Have made my life 'sing' more sweetly
And, so when your concerts call me,
I'll come what may.
Hazel M. Smith
2 March 2014
From the valleys of my heartland
Your music calls,
Lifts my spirit when I hear you
With each note that falls,
Raising joy and hope within me,
As your songs flow oh so sweetly,
Filling my heart so completely
And so I come....
To your valleys filled with music
My heart is drawn,
Where there's singing and there's laughter
and new friendships born
With you all my soul is singing,
Somehow there I feel belonging,
So with joyful footsteps dancing
To you I come....
Maybe it's the Welsh blood in me
Calls me away,
Who can tell what speaks to my soul
In such a way,
But you folk of Aber Valley
Have made my life 'sing' more sweetly
And, so when your concerts call me,
I'll come what may.
Hazel M. Smith
2 March 2014
