Cosher Bailey's Engine



Cosher Bailey had an engine

It was always wanting mending,

And according to the power,

She could do four miles an hour



cho: Did you ever see, did you ever see

Did you ever see such a funny sight before?



On the night run up from Gower

She did twenty mile an hour

As she whistled through the station

Man, she frightened half the nation.



Cosher bought her second-hand

And he painted her so grand

When the driver went to oil her

Man, she nearly burst her boiler.

Cosher Bailey's sister Lena

She was living up in Blaina

She could knit and darn our stockings

But her cooking it was shocking.



Cosher Bailey's brother Rupert

He played stand-off-half for Newport,

When they played against Llanelly

Someone kicked him in the belly.



Cosher Bailey had a daughter

Who did things she didn't oughter

She was quite beyond the pale

But over that we'll draw a veil.



Cosher Bailey went to Exford

For to pass matriculation

But he saw a pretty barmaid

And he never left the station.

Oh the sight it was heart-rending

Cosher drove his little engine

And he got stuck in the tunnel

And went up the bloomin' funnel.



Cosher Bailey's little engine

Couldn't even sound its hooter

Just to make the steam go higher

He made water on the fire.



Yes, Cosher Bailey he did die

And they put him in a coffin

But, alas, they heard a knocking

Cosher Bailey, only joking.



Well, the Devil wouldn't have him

But he gave him sticks and matches

For to set up on his own

On the top of Barford Hatches.

Recorded by MacColl (Four Pence a Day)

@work @train @England @Welsh

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