Martyn in Europe

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Don't tell her we're losing, tell her we're not winning, tell her we will win. Don't get her all in a frump.
Tell its early days yet. Tell her she can write to her Gran, friends can maybe come and visit.
Tell her it rains there, tell her it's warm there.

Tell her we're going on a trip, like an outing to Barry Island.
Tell her Wales is the land that the sky pixies gave us, gave everyone, that's why we must leave, because the sky pixies say so. 
Don't tell her about Thatcher, Scargill, Tarzan, Jenkins, Hain … Unemployment, misery, coal dust, alienation, theft, exploitation … death

Tell her that her great great great great lots of great grans and granpas will watch over us

Don't tell her we left because it was rubbish, cold, wet and miserable. Even when she is homesick.
Tell her, of course tell her, tell her everyone was driven out and the country by poverty, by Thatcher, by nothing in particular. Tell her Wales is waiting for us to come home, if we want .

Don't tell her she belongs here, tell her she belongs everywhere.
Tell her of course she likes there but she'll like it there even more on the future.
Tell her it's not an adventure

Tell her no one will tease her.
Tell her she'll have new friends.
Tell her she can take her cat.

Don't tell her she can take all her friends. Tell her she's a special girl.
Tell her about Bethlehem, Nasareth, Manic Street Preachers and Cerys Mathews.
If you can shoot a rabbit, tell her, you can shoot a fascist too.

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Part 1 - http://www.itsmarty.com/archive/2009/06/07/kids_valleys_1_7.aspx
Part 2 - http://www.itsmarty.com/archive/2009/06/07/kids_valleys_2_7.aspx
Part 3 - http://www.itsmarty.com/archive/2009/06/07/kids_valleys_3_7.aspx
Part 4 - http://www.itsmarty.com/archive/2009/06/07/kids_valleys_4_7.aspx
Part 5 - http://www.itsmarty.com/archive/2009/06/07/kids_valleys_5_7.aspx
Part 6 - http://www.itsmarty.com/archive/2009/06/07/kids_valleys_6_7.aspx
Part 7 - http://www.itsmarty.com/archive/2009/06/07/kids_valleys_7_7.aspx