This song caused some grief in my (long late) father's youth. There is a line in the song something like 'is Arsenal going to win the cup?' They would bang the table at this line, to make the needle jump so that it said " 'is arse.. 'is arse.. 'is arse" - and their mum would clout them for it. After a while, the misuse caused the needle to jump all by itself.. and she hit them anyway.

As for san fairy ann - there was a whole vocabulary of bastard French spoken by WW1 soldiers- for example 'doolay' meant milk (du lait) and oofs are obvious. My brother's wifes grandfather told us about the German prisoners- he said "The Frenchies always shouted 'Isle of Man' when they saw a captured Jerry- because that's where the prison camp was". The French were saying "Allemains".