In Ballads of the Industrial North by Martha Vicinus, the broadside is prefaced by the following:

"[The following Song, by G.P.Codden, (very popular in the North of England,) was printed and presented to the Auditory, at a Lecture given by Dr G.Dunn, in his native Town of Barnsley, in Aid of the Surviving Sufferers by the Explosion which occured at Warren Vale Colliery, on the morning of December, 20th, 1851]"