Lyrics

What Passes and What Never Leaves Bb

Still the mighty mountains stand
And all around the winds do blow
And still we hear at dawn
The shepherds sing the old-time songs
The daisies on the hills do grow
Around the rocks, on every fold
Tis only the shepherds that are new
Upon these unchanged mountains

CH: How good to sing the songs of them
who have walked the land my eyes can’t see
To hear them in my spirit’s heart,
oh what passes and what never leaves

Throughout Wales the customs change
The earth turns us all in place
For each generation that’s now gone
Another one shall show its face

CH: And after such a stormy life
Alun Mabon he is no more
Yet his old language still survives
and the old songs still endure

For even the stones have their stories to tell
And I hear them now- and i hear them well
Oh i hear them now and i hear them well
Even Alun singing peacefully

CH: And after such a stormy life
Alun Mabon he is no more
Yet the old language still lives on
and the old songs still endure

CH: How good to sing the songs of them
who have walked the land my eyes can’t see
To hold them in my spirits heart,
oh what passes and what never leaves

CH: And after such a stormy life
Alun Mabon….is no more
Yet the old language still walks the land
and the old songs still endure

Words: John Ceriog Hughes
Additional words: Jodee James