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w:Co-sher Bai-ley had an en-gine it was al-ways want-ing men-ding And ac
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w:cor-ding to the po-wer, She could do four miles an ho-ur. Did you ev-ver saw, did you 
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w:ev-er saw, did you ev-er saw, Such a fun-ny sight be-fore?
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W:Cosher Bailey had an engine
W:It was always wanting mending,
W:And according to the power,
W:She could do four miles an hour
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W:Did you ever saw
W:Did you ever saw
W:Did you ever saw
W:Such a funny sight before?
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W:On the night run up from Gower
W:She did twenty mile an hour
W:As she whistled through the station
W:Man, she frightened half the nation.
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W:Cosher bought her second-hand
W:And he painted her so grand
W:When the driver went to oil her
W:Man, she nearly burst her boiler.
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W:Cosher Bailey's sister Lena
W:She was living up in Blaina
W:She could knit and darn our stockings
W:But her cooking it was shocking.
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W:Cosher Bailey's brother Rupert
W:He played stand-off-half for Newport,
W:When they played against Llanelly
W:Someone kicked him in the belly.
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W:Cosher Bailey had a daughter
W:Who did things she didn't oughter
W:She was quite beyond the pale
W:But over that we'll draw a veil.
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W:Cosher Bailey went to Exford
W:For to pass matriculation
W:But he saw a pretty barmaid
W:And he never left the station.
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W:Oh the sight it was heart-rending
W:Cosher drove his little engine
W:And he got stuck in the tunnel
W:And went up the bloomin' funnel.
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W:Cosher Bailey's little engine
W:Couldn't even sound its hooter
W:Just to make the steam go higher
W:He made water on the fire.
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W:Yes, Cosher Bailey he did die
W:And they put him in a coffin
W:But, alas, they heard a knocking
W:Cosher Bailey, only joking.
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W:Well, the Devil wouldn't have him
W:But he gave him sticks and matches
W:For to set up on his own
W:On the top of Barford Hatches.

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