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'Oh, the big ship sails on the ...'


on the what? "...on the last day of September." I've seen the movie a million times, one of my favorites, but I can't make out those words. Perhaps it's because I'm American. Can anyone help this in-the-dark Yank?



"I told you a million times not to talk to me when I'm doing my lashes"!

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Hmmm. Thanks for the info. I always forget about the "captions" option.



"I told you a million times not to talk to me when I'm doing my lashes"!

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Americans.

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It's an old nursery rhyme, I don't know whether it ever made sense :-)

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Precisely. You Americans, desperate to put the world to order with your antiquated anglo-enlightenment ideals, when will your Romantic revolution arrive? You make me sick.

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Wow. Just because someone wanted the words to a song? What a moron.

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Precisely; a troll no doubt.


"I told you a million times not to talk to me when I'm doing my lashes"!

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Wherever you're from they obviously don't teach good manners and you never learned them on your own.

Siri
Don't Make Me Have to Release the Flying Monkeys!


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The alley referred to in the song in the Manchester Ship Canal, seen in the film.

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Thank you. I found the DVD this morning and have often wondered what that nursery rhyme was about.

Love is never having to say you're sober.

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I don't mind if the English know more than we do--that's what they're THERE there for--but they don't have to get snooty about it. Even if the cause be not good...



Unless I mock, my heart will break--
I will burn you at the stake.

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I don't mind if the English know more than we do--that's what they're THERE for
--but they don't have to get snooty about it....even if the cause be not good.








Unless I mock, my heart will break--
I will burn you at the stake.

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I'm also American, and as I heard this in the movie I understood "Oh the good ship sails in the early early morn"

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It's a nursery rhyme song.

"Oh the big ship sails on the ally-ally O...."

The "Ally" is Manchester's ship canal.

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