{"id":437,"date":"2013-01-26T21:35:13","date_gmt":"2013-01-27T02:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.naebunny.net\/testing\/?page_id=437"},"modified":"2013-09-20T03:50:28","modified_gmt":"2013-09-20T08:50:28","slug":"lyrics-not-against-my-own-aberfan","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.dulahan.com\/?page_id=437","title":{"rendered":"lyrics: not against my own &#8211; aberfan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>cd: Not Against My Own<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p>track 3: Aberfan<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>T\u2019was the twenty-first of October, on a foggy Friday morn<br \/>\nAnd the children sang things beautiful and bright<br \/>\nTheir fathers dug the coal beneath the mountainside above<br \/>\nAnd grew the tip that shattered all their livesFor years the townfolk worried \u2018bout the spring beneath Merthr Vale<br \/>\nCould it someday bring the slag upon the town?<br \/>\nAnd on that fateful morning in the mining south of Wales<br \/>\nFive hundred thousand tons came raining down<\/p>\n<p>CHORUS<\/p>\n<p>On Aberfan, a hundred sixteen children, Aberfan<br \/>\nSo cruel a fate to will them<br \/>\nThere\u2019ll be no consolation for the coal board\u2019s washed their hands<br \/>\nOf the blood of those young children in the town<br \/>\nOf Aberfan<\/p>\n<p>They heard a distant rumble and it soon became a roar<br \/>\nSo quickly that they had no time to flee<br \/>\nThe parents and the miners dug frantically in vain<br \/>\nThrough tears that made it difficult to see<\/p>\n<p>The crown and her tribunal and the coal board had their say<br \/>\nEmpty words that fell on deafened ears<br \/>\nNew rules and regulations are not the prime concern<br \/>\nWhen you\u2019re burying a child of seven years<\/p>\n<p>CHORUS<\/p>\n<p>Since that day my father\u2019s never mined an ounce of coal<br \/>\nFor he lost a son and daughter in the slide<br \/>\nHe sees my brother, James, and sister, Margaret, in my eyes<br \/>\nThe torment and the grief will not subside<\/p>\n<p>Most days the memory lingers sometimes it starts to fade<br \/>\nTill you see the hollow faces in a crowd<br \/>\nAnd it brings back the resignation t\u2019will never go away<br \/>\nA generation lost beneath a shroud<\/p>\n<p>CHORUS<\/p>\n<td>\u00a9 2005 All Rights Reserved<br \/>\nDulahan Music<br \/>\nWritten by Kyle Aughe<\/td>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>cd: Not Against My Own track 3: Aberfan T\u2019was the twenty-first of October, on a foggy Friday morn And the children sang things beautiful and bright Their fathers dug the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":323,"parent":322,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-437","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dulahan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dulahan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dulahan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dulahan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dulahan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=437"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.dulahan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2045,"href":"http:\/\/www.dulahan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/437\/revisions\/2045"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dulahan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/322"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dulahan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dulahan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}