Rhondda Grey

The little refrain riff is: (just a little transition C D The tools are on the bar...) Of course it's only ever played live so there's always extra bars stuck in in places 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? 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? 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 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 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