Hi, Colin - a Google search for "english navvy" "english sot" comes up with a bit:


from Churching the Ungodly (victorianweb.com):
The Letter (Quarterly Letter to Navvies from the Navvy Mission Society) also printed what must be history's least sung anti-booze ballad, so appalling it could only damage sobriety's reputation. (To make it worse it was written by a Scot but attributed in the chorus to an Englishman.) It went to the tune "The Days We Went A-Gipsying":

Chorus:
Yes, I am an English navvy, but, oh, not an English sot,
I have run my pick through alcohol, in bottle, glass, or pot,
And with the spade of abstinence, and all the power I can,
I am spreading out a better road for every working man.

...but maybe you had this chorus already. If you're requesting a song, it's best to give us what you have already. That way, if we don't get an answer, at least we have something - and sometimes years later, somebody does come up with an answer.
-Joe-