Hi Leeneia,
Couldn't get your link to work, but doesn't matter - still have the record of Bing singing it somewhere - my mother's favourite singer.
My father was a navvy and him and his mates used to sing it with the verse:
And the women in the uplands digging praties,
Speak a language that George Wimpey does not know
I'm presuming that everybody knows that George Wimpey was one of the notoriously predatory civil engineering contractors, along with McAlpine and Laing, who used to employ road-workers on 'The Lump' in Britain
Jim Carroll