Such a song was collected from an old fisherman in North Shields in 1927. The Collector, who shall remain nameless, mislaid his notebook and upon going to seek out said fisherman discovered that he'd suffered a massive stroke the previous day which had rendered him incapable of speech or singing. The Collector could only remember the basic sense of the song which was of such a unique quality & undoubted hoary provenance that in his attempts to remember it he resorted to drink, drugs, and, upon the actual death of the fisherman, spiritualism. Alas, all to no avail, whereupon he lost his wits entirely. As recently as 1977 he could be found wandering the grounds of St. Nicolas' Hospital in Gosforth muttering about how he once collected a song that nobody knows...