Drunken Sailor
Drunken Sailor is a traditional shanty , a seafaring work song, in the Doric mode . It is also known as What Shall We Do with the Drunken Sailor .
original
Originally the melody was taken from the traditional Irish dance and marching song Oró Sé do Bheatha 'Bhaile . The same melody is used in the song Ten Little Injuns , for example .
The lyrics were first published in 1891 under the title What to Do With a Drunken Sailor? , the melodies were published as early as 1824-1825 in Cole's Selection of Favorite Cotillions in Baltimore . Another version was written by Richard Runciman Terry and reprinted in the songbook The Shanty Book, Part I, Sailor Shanties .
Recordings and modifications
The shanty song Drunken Sailor has since been recorded by numerous singers and bands, for example The Irish Rovers , Dschinghis Khan , Great Big Sea , the King's Singers , Saltatio Mortis , Rapalje , Quadriga Consort , James Last , The Swingle Singers , Pete Seeger , The Fisherman's Friends and Authority Zero . It also found a place in Rogue's Gallery's collection of sea shanties: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs, and Chanteys , published in 2006.
The Kingston Trio recorded the song Early in the Morning , which uses the same melody but contains changed lyrics ("When you lift your eyes and / see the sun a risin '/ on the far horizon / early in the morning.") .
The modified version of The Drunken Whaler was Bethesda Softworks 2012 for the computer game Dishonored in order, which then in among other E3 was trailer use.
Furthermore, the melody can often be heard in SpongeBob SquarePants .
The Quadriga Consort has been playing a cheerful version as an encore in all of its concerts for years.
melody
song lyrics
- What shall we do with a drunken sailor,
- What shall we do with a drunken sailor,
- What shall we do with a drunken sailor,
- Early in the morning?
Refrain:
- Hoo ray and up she rises,
- Hoo ray and up she rises,
- Hoo ray and up she rises,
- Early in the morning
Traditional verses:
- 1. Put him in the long boat till he's sober,
- 2. Put him in the scuppers with a hose-pipe on him.
- 3. Shave his belly with a rusty razor.
- 4. Put him in bed with the captain's daughter.
- 5. Take him and shake him and try to awake him.
Additional verses:
- 6. Have you seen the captain's daughter?
- 7. Put him in the bilge and make him drink it
- 8. Truss him up with a runnin 'bowline.
- 9. Give 'im a dose of salty water.
- 10. Stick on 'is back a mustard plaster.
- 11. Send him up the crow's nest till he falls down,
- 12. Tie him to the taffrail when she's yardarm under,
- 13. Soak 'im in oil' til he sprouts a flipper.
- 14. Put him in the guard room 'til he's sober.
- 15. That's what we'll do with the drunken sailor.
- 16. Keel haul 'im' til he's sober.
- 17. Put him in a hole with an angry weasel.
- 18. Scratch his back with a cat o 'nine tails .
Variations:
- a. Keep him there and make 'im bale' er.
- b. Pull out the plug and wet him all over,
- c. Shave his balls with a rusty razor.
- d. Give 'im a taste of the bosun's rope-end.
- e. Heave 'im by the leg with a runnin' bowline.
