Rosehill

Let us walk the Green Corridor
Where the ground is soft and the air is pure,
On Terrace Road there’s an open door
And Rosehill’s there to be explored,
Yeah, Rosehill’s there to be explored.

Between Townhill and Swansea town
A wild green garden can be found,
Where Nant y Graig springs from the ground
Into nature’s adventure playground,
Yeah, nature’s adventure playground.

Can you hear the herring gull cry?
And the magpies nesting way up high?
Woodpeckers, blackbirds, wrens and crows
Is how this quarry’s symphony goes,
Is how this quarry’s symphony goes.

But don’t forget its history
Don’t forget its past
The stone hewn from this very quarry
Was used to build this town.

The noise, the clatter of iron on the rock,
Drills and dynamite,
The work on the hill for Pennant Sandstone
Still scars this very site.

The quarry was levelled, but didn't give up
Reborn as Rosehill tennis club,
Where Mike Davies played, with a pearl white ball
Wimbledon finalist, six foot tall
Yeah, Wimbledon finalist, six foot tall.

For twenty years the brambles climbed
The quarry slept, slipped out of mind
But people woke and began to fight
Assembled a team to put things right.

The dole boys came for their training year
To forge new paths, and to clean and clear
They brought new life with their toil and sweat
Rosehill renewed with each young step.

Let’s unwind on the cockle shell path
Around and around on the labyrinth,
June eighty seven they first made their mark
Which brought new life to Rosehill Park,
Yeah, brought new life to Rosehill Park.

So when you next walk the Green Corridor
Cast your mind back to what came before,
On Terrace Road there’s an open door
And Rosehill’s there to be explored,
Yeah, Rosehill’s there to be explored.


Credits:
Words by Angharad Jenkins
Verse 6 (not incl. middle 8) by Melvyn Williams
Verse 7 (not incl. middle 8) by Robin Hall