I've got bogged down with a discussion of some lyrics, which have been complicated by the fact that my correspondent is Danish. The song is "The Deckie" which I know from the music of The Good Hope (play at National Theatre last year) where it is sung by Chris Coe. If anyone knows the song I'd appreciate some help. The first part of the song describes a girl who is in love with a deckie, and we are debating over a line which appears to go "they'll go a courting with yon owner's lass" but my friend can't hear this and doesn't believe me, and I'm already contaminating his embarassingly good English with Yorkshire dialect. Have I heard right? Then the last verse describes a captain who can't get a crew together to go fishing, which doesn't seem to fit with the first part. I'm wondering if it was added to the original song to fit with the play, and come to that what the origin of the song is? The CD I've got doesn't give the source. I don't know if posting the lyrics here would be welcomed since I don't know the origins. Cheers Jennifer