Great version above, which I haven't heard sung in public for years. The much cleaner interpretation which takes bits from the smutty one is as below. There seems to be many slight regional variations to this song. I learnt it from a chap from Devon, in the sixties, and have sung this version ever since. I recently came across a variation in Suffolk were old General Gordon from Ashdon, one of those great old boys that would sing if you bought him a pint; his song was built around a crab and not a lobster. Doesn't really matter though does it, sing it I find it always makes people laugh.

"Good morning, mister fisherman." "Good day, sir," says he.
I says, "Have you a lobster you can sell to me?"
CHORUS: Singing row tiddly oh, row tiddly oh,
Row tiddly oh, tiddly oh tow tow

"I have, sir. I has three
Of the finest lobsters you will ever see." CHORUS

So I took them home and I put them in a dish.
I puts them in a place where me missus has a wish. CHORUS

Now in the middle of the night, as you well know,
Me missus she got up to use the so-and-so. CHORUS

She came out crying, "What's this here?"
She came out with a lobster hanging from here rear. CHORUS

Now there's a moral to this story and it's just this:
Always have a shuftie before you have a wish. CHORUS

HTML line breaks added. --JoeClone, 20-Aug-02.