"Drunken Sailor"
(What Shall We Do with a Drunken Sailor?, Sailor's Holiday.)
![[image of music]](FFsniply-Drunken Sailor.png)
, Edorian, .
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Playing or Personal Notes:
No personal notes.
History
Found it (lyrics only) on the Digitrad; http://www.mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=1736 (with discussions on the origins of the phrase 'with the Captain's daughter').
Found an abc file in Henrik Norbeck's Abc Tunes collection (http://www.norbeck.nu/abc/), called The Drunken Sailor Hornpipe, and if you listen very carefully, it does sound like the basis for the song.
Ah, finally found what I was looking for - origally from MusicaViva - although in Adorian instead of the Edorian that we normally use. I may have to transcribe it, but for now I have put it as-is into the var-Drunken Sailor.abc file.
From wikipedia;
The air was taken from a traditional Irish dance and march tune, "Oró Sé do Bheatha 'Bhaile"
Lyrics
There are many different versions of the lyrics, and possibly thousands of individual verses.
Note that "early" is generally pronounced as "earl-eye."
- Intro
- What shall we do with a drunken sailor, (3×)
- Early in the morning?
- Chorus
- Hoo-ray/Wey-hey/Heave-ho and up she rises, (3×)
- Early in the morning!
- Verses
- Stick him in a bag and beat him senseless, (3×)
- Early in the morning!
- Put him in the longboat 'til he's sober, (3×)
- Early in the morning!
- Take him, shake him and try an' wake him, (3×)
- Early in the morning!
- Put him in the brig until he's sober, (3×)
- Early in the morning!
- Slap him around and call him Suzie, (3×)
- Early in the morning!
- Put him in bed/the brig/the hold with the captain's daughter, (3×)
- Early in the morning!
- You haven't seen the captain's daughter, (3×)
- Early in the morning!
- Keelhaul the man until he's sober, (3×)
- Early in the morning!
- Put 'im in the crow's nest and watch him fall down, (3×)
- Early in the morning!
- Put 'im in a leaky boat an' make 'im bail 'er, (3×)
- Early in the morning!
- Put him in the bilge and make him drink it, (3x)
- Early in the morning!
- Put him in the scuppers with a hosepipe on him, (3×)
- Early in the morning!
- Put 'im in the back of the paddywagon, (3×)
- Early in the morning!
- Take 'im and shake 'im and try an' wake 'im, (3×)
- Early in the morning!
- Give 'im a dose of salt and water, (3×)
- Early in the morning!
- Give 'im a taste of the bosun's rope-end, (3×)
- Early in the morning!
- Stick on 'is back a mustard plaster, (3×)
- Early in the morning!
- Soak 'im in oil till he sprouts a flipper, (3×)
- Early in the morning!
- Heave him by the leg in a running bowline, (3×)
- Early in the morning!
- Tie him to the taffrail when she's yardarm under, (3×)
- Early in the morning!
- Shave his belly with a rusty razor, (3×)
- Early in the morning!
- Set him polishing up the brasswork, (3×)
- Early in the morning!
- 'Round with the rum and scotch and whiskey, (3×)
- Early in the morning!
- God Speed, The whales are comin', (3x)
- Early in the morning!
- Go to the market and buy some apples, (3x)
- Early in the morning!
- Outro
- That's what we'll do with a drunken sailor, (3×)
- Early in the morning! (Amen)
On the Web:
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