The connection with the Taff Vale Railway has already been mentioned.

A few verses.

Cosher Bailey had an engine,
And it always needed mending,
It did nineteen miles an hour,
On the night run up from Gower....

(Did you ever see,
Did you ever see,
Did you ever see,
Such a funny thing before...?)

Cosher Bailey's brother Norwich,
He liked his oatmeal porridge,
And he went to Cardiff College,
For to get a bit of knowledge...

Cosher Bailey went to Oxford,
To attend his matriculation,
But he met a pretty barmaid,
And he never left the station...

Cosher Bailey went and died,
So they put him in his coffin,
Till they heard someone knocking,
Cosher Bailey...only joking!

Well, the devil wouldn't have him,
And it really was no wonder,
So he sent him back to earth,
To make a hell upon the Rhonnda