So not one person in the Mudcat Universe ever memorized a single bawdy verse he or she actually heard Stan Hugill sing at one of his allegedly many, allegedly anything-goes pub sessions?

So here's a different question. Has anyone ever heard an old sailor sing authentic bawdy words to a shanty? Names don't matter: the genuine old-time lyrics do. To some people.

My theory is that modern rugby songs are considerably more lurid, leering, and ingenious than most of what one would have heard at sea a century ago.

Just an opinion, mind you.