I wonder if anyone could help me sort out a particularly ticklish earworm? [An ear worm is a song or tune once heard and forgotten that hatches out maybe years later as a fragment of memory. It crawls around inside your head singing to itself until you can figure out what it is or where you heard it.]

My current earworm has been bothering me for the last few days and I've not pinned it down yet... :o)

"Captain, oh my captain, our fearful trip is through".

This earworm also comes with a fragment of sleevenote! The song was arranged from a poem lamenting the assasination of Abraham Lincoln following the American Civil War.

I've searched for that phrase as a song title or first line without success, it may even be part of the refrain or chorus, tho' I don't remember it as a chorus song. I heard it once at a festival in England and it has a very vague association with Judy Dunlop or possibly Si Kahn!

If that was all I wouldn't bother you with it, as I'm sure it will either go away or I will work it out. However, this earworm has managed to cross breed itself with songs from the Jungle Book. It turns into..

"Captain, oh my captain, Our fearful trip is through,... ...I've reached the top and had to stop and that's what's bothering me!"

AND THAT'S WHAT'S BOTHERING ME, it's in my head and it won't go away! I'm sure it's not part of the original song but there may be some similarity in the tune. I can't get at the original song while I have King Louie swinging between my ears!

Is there any help for me?

Cavia_P