With reference to 'Deckie Learner' aka 'Bear Island island' I was singing it one night in a session in the Fleetwood Arms when after the verse "...take me back home to Fleetwood For all of my family to see", an extreamly drunken man interupted the flow by singing...

"But they didn't take him to Fleetwood
T'Skipper dumped him o'er the wall
And said ' you lot get working
We've still time for another haul"

- which put the mockers on the rest of the song!