The Big Ship Sails on the Eely-ally Oh

Starting with a background of torn newspaper strips yesterday's Subconscious Musing began to take on the form of some ancient sailing ship with it's great hulk, mizzen masts, and canopies :

Mixed media on sugar paper, 59x86cm.

And this put me in mind of the song we used to sing as children:

The big ship sails on the eely-ally oh,
The eely-ally oh,
The eely-ally oh.
The big ship sails on the eely-ally oh,
On the last day of September.

The captain said, 'It will never, never do,
Never, never do,
Never, never do.'
The captain said, 'It will never, never do,'
On the last day of September.

The big ship sank to the bottom of the sea,
The bottom of the sea,
The bottom of the sea.
The big ship sank to the bottom of the sea.
On the last day of September.

Other versions that I could find on the internet have it as: ally-ally oh, but I much prefer the eely-ally...much more fishy!



On the last day of September.