The picture may not be as clear as we thought: Veteran's album VT147CD Yon Green Banks (Songs Sung in South Yorkshire) by Will Noble & John Cocking, has information about Edmund Hill, and a completely different version of the song! This may (or may not) be what Hill wrote. This is what appears in the sleeve notes (scroll down - it's the 14th of the 16 tracks):

A MAN LIKE THEE

There's an old man lives down our street,
In a cosy cottage with a greenhouse,
And on a Sunday morning when it's fine,
I often goes an' sits with him and have a smoke and chat,
Because he is a dear old friend of mine.

(Chorus) He says "I'm always glad to see a man like thee.
Th'ar as welcome lad, as welcome as can be.
Draw the chair right up to table,
Stop as long as thou art able,
For I'm always glad to see a man like thee."

There's a pub just down our village street that's where I like to roam
I go and meet my pals there every night.
The landlord's he's a pal of mine, each other we know well,
And when we meet he greets me with delight.

One day I went and fell in love with a bonny village lass.
I thought of nought but her both night and day.
And every time I took a stroll her cottage I would pass,
She'd come to door and these words she would say.

Then one night I dreamt that I was dead and went straight down to hell,
Old Nick himself received me on the spot.
He said "Come reet inside lad all thee pals are here as well."
You should have seen the welcome that I got.

       This is a song that has crept over the border from Lancashire to Will and John, although they got it from Frank Hinchliffe (Lodge Moor). It was written by Edmund Hill who was actually a Kentish miner who moved to St. Helens a century ago. He apparently fell in love with the heavy northern dialect that prevailed in that area then. The song was popular in the First World War trenches and became a theme song for many of the folk revival's 'Lancashire' acts in the 1960s and 70s, although the last verse seems to be unique to Hinchcliffe.

Song transcribed by John Howson

Song notes: John Howson, Will Noble & John Cocking

There is another mention of Hill in a local newspaper article from 2004, which basically repeats (or provides) the information in the Noble/Cocking sleevenotes.