I'm so glad that Wilfried brought up the issue of the translation of "e-i-e-i-o" (as, he says, "hi-a-hi-ha-ho"). Now, "hi-a-hi-ha-ho" works if you consider it to be an approximation of the noise "e-i-e-i-o", but if you consider "e-i-e-i-o" to be a string of letters, as written, than the translation would have to be:

epsilon - iota - epsilon - iota - omicron!

(which, of course, doesn't fit the meter of the song, but would be fun to sing anyway!)

Sharon