'Crowds lined the street corners, people waving and applauding. Behind our group the women and men from South Wales kept bursting into song, making some of us feel alternately elated and tearful – familiar tunes sung in unfamiliar language but recognisable as songs of working people.
This song which the women of the coalfields adopted as their own, and which was heard at marches, rallies, and concerts up and down the country says it all:

We are women, we are strong,
We are fighting for our lives
Side by side with our men
Who work the nation's mines,
United by the struggle,
United by the past,
And it's – Here we go! Here we go!
For the women of the working class