We’ll Keep A Welcome In The Hillside – Harry Secombe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b26VoprfGfc
Sir Harry Donald Secombe CBE was born in Swansea in 1921, after leaving school he joined the
Territorial Army in 1938 and served in Italy during WWII.
He met Spike Milligan in Tunisia and after the war they joined the cast of the Windmill
theatre and there met Michael Bentine and Peter Sellers.
This quartet wrote a comedy for BBC radio that would develop into the Goon Show which
ran from 1951 to 1960.
During this time Harry also pursued a singing career which continued up to 1999 when he
suffered a second stroke, his first being in 1997.
A big favorite with the royal family, Prince Charles especially, he was knighted in 1981.
Harry died in 2001 at the age of 79.
Intro: C F G C G G7 C
F
Far away a voice is calling, bells of memory chime,
G C G G7
Come home again, come home again, they call through the oceans of time.
C G C Am7 Am G C C7
We'll keep a welcome in the hillside, we'll keep a welcome in the Vales,
F Dm7 C Am7 Am G G7
This land you knew will still be singing, when you come home again to Wales.
C G C Am7 Am G C C7
This land of song will keep a welcome, and with a love that never fails,
F Dm7 C Am7 Am G C
We'll kiss away each hour of hiraeth, when you come home again to Wales.
G C Am7 Am G C C7
We'll keep a welcome in the hillside, we'll keep a welcome in the Vales,
F Dm7 C Am7 Am G G7
This land you knew will still be singing, when you come home again to Wales.
C G C Am7 Am G C C7
This land of song will keep a welcome, and with a love that never fails,
F Dm7 C Am7 Am G C
We'll kiss away each hour of hiraeth, when you come home again to Wales.
(Barre chords)
C F Dm7 C Am7 Am G G7 C
We'll kiss away each hour of hiraeth, when you come home again to Wales
