We’ll Keep A Welcome

This is a traditional song and its lyrics were found on the Web by Tim Owen.
Wait a minute...it's in English! Yep...except for that funny "hiraeth" word.
Picture everyone singing this at the docks waving to the passengers of ship bound for some far-off place.
How does the tune go? Eventually, we hope to have a sound file for you to download for practicing.

Far away a voice is calling,
Bells of memory chime
Come home again, come home again,
They call through the oceans of time.

Well keep a welcome in the hillside.
Well keep a welcome in the Glen.
This land you knew will still be singing
When you come home sweet home again.

There'll be a friendly voice to guide you
On your return we'll always pray.
We'll kiss away each hour of longing
When you come home again to someday.

Well keep a welcome in the hillside.
Well keep a welcome in the Vale
This land you knew will still be singing
When you come home again to Wales.

This land of song will keep a welcome
And with a love that never fails,
||: Well kiss away each hour of hiraeth
When you come home again to Wales. :||


The display of these songs on this site is only meant as a means for the Celtic Arts Center Choir to distribute songs to its members.
This is not intended for wider publication or larger distribution.

Updated on Tue, Apr 15, 2003
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