Rhondda Grey Chords

[Verse 1]
D                    C
One afternoon from a Council school
   C                D
A boy came home to play
      D                    C
With paints and coloured pencils
         C                D
And his homework for the day
      G                D
We've got to paint the valley mam
    C          D
For Mrs Davies art
      D                    C
What colour is the valley mam?
     C                D
And will you help me start?
 
 
[Verse 2]
D                    C
Shall I paint the Con Club yellow?
   C                D
And paint the Welfare blue
 D                 C
Paint old Mr Davies red
    C                D
And all his pigeons too
G                D
Paint the man who kept our ball
C                D
Paint him looking sad
      D                    C
What colour is the valley mam?
     C                D
What colour is it dad?
 
 
[Verse 3]
D                    C
Dad, if mam goes down the shop
   C                D
To fetch the milk and bread
 D                 C
Ask her fetch me back some paint
    C                D
Some gold and white and red
G                D
Ask her fetch me back some green
    C                D
The bit I've gots gone hard
D                    C
Ask her fetch me back some green
C                D
Ask her will you dad
 
 
[Verse 4]
    D                C
His father took him by the hand
          C                D
And they walked down Albion Street
    D                C
Down past the old Rock Incline
                C        D
To where the Council put a seat
       G                  D
Where old men say at the close of day
           C              D
Dy'n ni wedi gwneud ein sair
          G                D
And the colour in their faces say
     C              D
The tools are on the bar
     C              D
The tools are on the bar
 
 
[Verse 5]
   D                   C
And that's the colour that we want
      C                D
That no shop has ever sold
        D              C
You can't buy that in Woolies lad
      C                        D
With your reds and greens and gold
       G                D
It's a colour you can't buy lad
      C             D
No matter what you pay
       G                D
But that's the colour that we want
        C              D
It's a sort of Rhondda grey
 
 
        C              D
It's a sort of Rhondda grey