Weekend Song

This Pete Seeger song (words by Welsh poet Idris Davies), written about a Welsh mine disaster, could just as easily apply to the Newtown tragedy, Aurora, the plant explosion in Texas, or to any senseless disaster anywhere in the world.  "The Bells of Rhymney" -- and the bells of Merthyr, Rhondda, Blaina, Cardiff, Newport -- ring with different questions for us.   It's transcendentally rendered, with chiming 12-string guitar, by the Byrds: