The Deputy verse may come from 'Jowl and Listen':

"The deputy crawls from flat to flat
The putter rams the chummins
And the man at the face must kna his place
Like a mother knas her young un."

Source: Notes from Leader LEA 4001 LP 1969

Not forgetting Pete Wood's excellent book - The Elliotts of Birtley - launched at Whitby this year, which gives this verse as:

"The deppity craals fre flat te flat,
The putter rams the tyum 'uns,
And the man at the face must knaa his place
Like a mother knaas her young 'uns."

Some subtle and interesting differences! Dialect is a wonderful thing...

Bill