On BBC Radio 4 (12:00 noon weekdays for short seasons) we are hearing about World War 1 on Tyneside and one of the characters sings a verse of this song rather nicely but in an unsteady accent- I am puzzled by the use of "hinny" and "honey" in the lyrics as written down. Is this because a lad would be a honey but a Lass would be a hinny?