G'day,

It's interesting to see the energy with which so many 'catters want to bowdlerise those nasty sailor chaps!

"Judies" is perfectly good Scouse for simply "(young?) women" ... but the song is about "those Liverpool Judies" ... Which ones?

These ones:
And now we've arrived in the Bramleymoor Dock,
And all them flash judies on the pierhead do flock.

these are "Flash Judies" ... they aren't dockside haulers ... they aren't nice tail winds drawing the ship home ... they sure as hell aren't ".... contrary winds, and the ship had to be warped or towed with a longboat out of port ..."