OK, this is the version I find in the 2002 Digital Tradition. It's still lacking songwriter attribution (Frank Hennessey from the Hennesseys Folk Group wrote this at the time of the miner's strike in 1972), but are there other corrections we need to make?
-Joe Offer

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FAREWELL TO THE RHONDDA

cho: Farewell ye colliery workers, the muffler and the cap
    Farewell ye Rhondda valley girls, we never will come back
    The mines they are a-closin', the valleys they're all doomed
    `There's no work in the Rhondda boys, we'll be in London soon

My father was a miner, and his father was before him,
He always had been proud to work the coal
Since they fell 'neath Roben's axe,
All the lads have had the sack
So away to work in England we must go!

No more the chapel singin', that long ago has left us
And the public house no more the miner's songs
For the boot wheels they are stoppin',
And the populations' droppin'
And I can't afford to stay here very long

Treherbert and Treorchy, Tonypandy and Tynewydd
Ystrad Rhondda and Ton Pentre, all adieu
For I can no longer wait
While Parliament debates
So a fond farewell I bid to all of you!

chorus (2x)
@mining @work
filename[ FRWHLRHND
WH
Apr98

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I think this MIDI link will work: (click) - I'm not sure it's the right tune...