Duw It's Hard - Live at Treorchy

In our little valley
 They closed the collery down
 And the pithead baths is a supermarket now
 Empty gurneys red with rust
 Roll to rest admist the dust
 And the pithead baths is a supermarket now
 'Cause it's hard
 Duw it's hard
 It's harder than they will ever know
 And it's they must take the blame
 The price of coal's the same
 But the pithead baths is a supermarket now
 They came down here from England
 Because our outputs low
 Briefcases full of bank clerks
 That had not never been below
 And they'll close the valley's oldest mine
 Pretending that they're sad
 But don't you worry butty bach
 We're really very glad
 'Cause it's hard
 Duw it's hard
 Harder than they will ever know
 And it's they must take the blame
 For the price of coal's the same
 But the pithead baths is a supermarket now
 My clean clothes locker's empty now
 I've thrown away the key
 And I've sold my boots and muffler
 And my lampcheck 153
 But I can't forget the times we had
 The laughing midst the fear
 'Cause everytime I cough I get
 A mining souvenir
 'Cause it's hard
 Duw it's hard
 Harder than they will ever know
 And it's they must take the blame
 The price of coal's the same
 But the pithead baths is a supermarket now
 I took my old helmet home with me
 Filled it full of earth
 And I planted little flowers there
 They grew for all their worth
 And it's hanging in the glasshouse now
 A living memory
 Reminding me they could have grown
 In vases over me
 'Cause it's hard
 Duw it's hard
 It's harder than they will ever know
 And it's they must take the blame
 The price of coal's the same
 But the pithead baths is a supermarket now
 But I know the local Magistrate
 She's got a job for me
 Though it's only counting buttons
 In the local factory
 We get coffee breaks and coffee breaks
 Coffee breaks and tea
 And now I know those dusty mines
 Have seen the last of me
 'Cause it's hard
 Duw it's hard
 Harder than they will ever know
 And if ham was underground
 Would it be twelve bob a pound
 The pithead baths is a supermarket now
 Aye the pithead baths it's a supermarket now