Joe, because it would be good to know exactly what they were singing...more than *half a century ago.*

It would be especially interesting because you learned the stuff several years before most of the "rugby-song" lyrics were first openly published - and thus standardized - in Harry Morgan's two volumes of Rugby Songs.

So, believe it or not, you're one of those valuable "traditional sources/ folk informants" we hear about but rarely ask the right questions of.