How do we know that Lloyd made up the verses? Is it documented anywhere? Or could the song have been, just to give a possibility, composed by a miner who had heard the American song and adapted it.. then sang it to Lloyd? Unless there's some evidence that he actually fabricated it, isn't the assumption that real miners couldn't (or wouldn't) have written a song like that comes across as the paternalistic sort of attitude that blue-pencilled so many collected folk songs. Singing, singing, buttercups and bloody daisies?

Anyway, it's a bloody good song, made up or not, and if the indigenous working class still had that attitude, they'd have strangled Nicky Griffin and his bonzos before the Labour party had tried to copy them. After all, it wasn't the Pakis and coons who destroyed our mines was it? Perhaps nice white Mrs ThatPerson or Nobrains Tebbit had something to do with that.