| Manic Street Preachers – Ready For Drowning Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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How on earth do none of you know about this? The song is about the town of Capel Celyn which was drowned to supply water for Liverpool in the 60s. Families who had relatives buried in the cemetery were given the option of either moving them to another cemetery, or leaving them. Consequently, eight bodies were disinterred, and the remainder left. All headstones were removed, and the cemetery was then covered in a layer of gravel, then concrete. God save the queen |
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