Oh, Jacqui and Kendall, quit flirting out here in front of everybody! Get a room!!

I found the following at archive.org, in an archived copy of the Stan Rogers Website:

...here's the way Stan and Garnet introduced this song in concert...

Stan: Anybody here ever read a book in your childhood called The Wind in the Willows? For those of you haven't it's not too late. I just re-read it for the fifteenth time, first time this year, earlier this year, and fell in love with the thing all over again. But there's a scene, for those of you who have read it, there's a scene where the river rat Ratius is lying on a hillside and the rat from the ship goes walking by and they strike up a conversation, and the seagoing rat is trying to talk the river rat into leaving his little home on the river bank and going and seeing the wonders if the wide world. All the things that he's seen, like the waterfront at Marseilles, the sewers of Cairo. Garnet: Anywhere in New Jersey. Stan: You're leaking, losing air down there. In any event, the river rat decides that what he'd much rather do is stay home with his friends and the people that he knows. Much the same thing happens on the St. Lawrence. The ships go through the locks on the Welland Canal and all the other canals all the way up to Lake Superior, and these lock-keepers, they see these ships go by from all over the world. They talk to the crew. They talk to the officers and then they go home to their little split level suburban homes in Port Dalhousie or Buffalo. I owe this song partly to The Wind in the Willows and partly to the fact that I grew up on the Niagara Peninsula near the Welland Canal. This is called Lock-keeper.