the big ship sailed on the alley alley o
Just heard this on TickaBilla, which the Bean is watching avidly. I've always wondered what the heck it was all about, especially as it has a sense of fatality and doom to it: big ship sails 'on the last day of September', the Captain says this will never do, everyone 'dips their heads in the deep blue sea', surely a euphemism for drowning.
Well, today I found out that in one reading, the 'alley alley o' is the Manchester Ship Canal, specifically the bit down to the River Mersey.
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