| We'll Keep A Welcome Music by Mai Jones. Lyrics by Lyn Joshua and James Harper. |
Released in 1999 on the various artists album Land Of My Fathers together with The Black Mountain Male Chorus and the Buy As You View Cory Band.
Shirley Bassey already performed the song in 1986 on Des O'Connor's
Christmas Show with Des and Tom Jones. She performed it again with Bryn Terfel and Michael Ball during the Rugby World Cup 1999 closing ceremony (November 6th) before the final game. Unlike World In Union this song
was performed live in front of thousands in the stadium and on the TV screens.
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Note From Land Of My Fathers |
Wales is known world-wide as being "The Land Of Song", and this famous Welsh song (Jones, Joshua, Harper) epitomises Wales as a country which will always be singing and which will always be welcoming. The word hiraeth is used in the third verse - a word which is almost impossible to translate, but is frequently used in Welsh as a means of describing the longing that one would feel when away from Wales for any length of time.
The song was originally published in Cardiff in 1943. It became famous after singer and actor Harry Secombe
performed it on his TV programme Highway.
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