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Master Lyrics – “The day the Singing Stopped”


[Chorus]
children always singing
If you’ve not met them
Then you won’t know them
If you have met them
You will never forget them
The day the singing stopped

[Verse 1]
A coal mining town
Built just for the mine
In Wales it’s to be found
spoil tips behind the town
not coal, it went to these tips
there were seven in all
one hundred feet tall
heavy rain these past weeks
rain not good for the tips,
really not good at all
children always singing

[Chorus]
children always singing
If you’ve not met them
Then you won’t know them
If you have met them
You will never forget them
The day the singing stopped

[Verse 2]
At the base of the hill
spoil tips on top
Was the school for the town
children always singing
twenty first day in October
the year nineteen sixty six
excitement was everywhere
a sound only children can make
there were only three hours to go
so close the half term break

[Chorus]
children always singing
If you’ve not met them
Then you won’t know them
If you have met them
You will never forget them
The day the singing stopped

[Verse 3]
seven that morning,
a large hole was found
No problem they said
next year check the ground
No singing had started
Neither had school.
But two hours later,
just after nine,
Just as the roll started
A noise, a noise so loud
No one could describe it
The day the singing stopped

[Chorus]
children always singing
If you’ve not met them
Then you won’t know them
If you have met them
You will never forget them
The day the singing stopped

[Verse 4]
Down the mountain
Waves thirty feet high
Spoil traveling with speed
As fast as the noise started,
the noise stopped, just stopped
silence which followed was complete
Not even a bird could be heard
The school was gone
Broken and buried
under many feet of spoil
nowhere a dry eye
No singing, never to be heard
The day the singing stopped

[Chorus]
children always singing
If you’ve not met them
Then you won’t know them
If you have met them
You will never forget them
The day the singing stopped

[Verse]
One hundred and forty four
lives were lost that day
Teachers desperately tried
Tried to save those in their care
some lost their lives while trying
One hundred and sixteen
young voices would never sing again

[Chorus.]
children always singing
If you’ve not met them
Then you won’t know them
If you have met them
You will never forget them
The day the singing stopped

[Outro]
One hundred and sixteen voices
Voices that would never sing again
The day the singing stopped
Singing stopped
Abervan grieves to this day
Abervan greives


Notes- In the song the town is called ABERVAN
to effect the correct sound. The correct
spelling of the Welsh town is ABERFAN.