Tiger,
From the same source as Weeping & Wailing away, ie Ted Edwards, comes a song called 'Coal Hole Cavalry'.
I
dont have all the words, but it is about Ted's thoughts whilst lying in bed in a morning listening to the miners in their clogs going to work, and thinking it sounded like the cavalry charge in the western films that he saw on a Saturday:-

Colliers riding a million horses,
Clitter clitter clatter all over the world,
Bugger off indians! cavalry's coming,
Picks and shovels and banners unfurled!

CH Clittering and clattering, coal hole cavalry,
Galloping rain or shine,
Clittering and clattering, coal hole cavalry,
Galloping down t' th' mine

FC