MacDonnchaidh, Co Doire
The two lines from mayomick are the only two i remember hearing myself, but i think there were a lot of these type of songs and the words were often forgotten, though a couple of lines would be remembered through common usage, probably as ard mhaca says,they would be used sarcastically against some particular gangerman

One i remember hearing on the cable work went as follows ;    ''I watched the frame as it took the strain, and i standing on the top, the timbers were all cracking, and the trench was caving in, so McAlpine sent to Leicester for the famous Darkie flynn.'' The Darkie Flynn [or Finn,depending on who was saying it ]   of the song being a legendary ''timberman'',this being the term used for the men who shuttered the trenches after they were dug out