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Drunken Sailor is a famous traditional sea shanty also known as What Shall We Do with a Drunken Sailor?. It is now rarely called by its other name Sailor’s Holiday. Sea shanties (singular shanty, also spelled chantey; derived from the French word chanter, to sing) were shipboard working songs. ...
The theme of the song is quite self-explanatory. It begins with the question, "What shall we do with a drunken sailor, early in the morning?" (Or sometimes "What do you do," etc.) Each verse thereafter suggests a method of sobering--or castigating, or simply abusing--the hypothetical sailor. The suggestions range from the realistic to the highly comical, and some verses deviate from this theme, usually with a humorous intent.
History
Drunken Sailor was a work song often sung when raising a sail or raising the anchor, which is the reference for “Up She Rises” in the song’s chorus. Such songs were the only ones allowed in the Royal Navy. Most often, only two or three verses were sung but verses were often added until the task was completed. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...
This article is about the navy of the United Kingdom. ...
Origins The air was taken from a traditional Irish dance and march tune, "Oró Sé do Bheatha 'Bhaile" (Translated as "Óró, you are welcome home") and is in the dorian mode. The same tune has also been used for other songs, possibly Ten Little Injuns, according to William E. Studwell in the "Americana Song Reader" (1997, p. 74) This article is about the modern Goidelic language. ...
Oró, Sé do Bheatha Bhaile is a traditional Irish independantist song. ...
Due to historical confusion, Dorian mode or Doric mode can refer to two very different musical modes or diatonic scales. ...
The music was first reproduced in printed form in 1824–25 in Cole’s Selection of Favourite Cotillions published in Baltimore. However, the lyrics were first published in 1891 under the title "What to do with a Drunken Sailor?". Another version appears in The Shanty Book, Part I, Sailor Shanties, by Richard Runciman Terry, categorised as a "Windlass and Capstan" shanty. He says of it: "Although mostly used for windlass or capstan, Sir Walter Runciman tells me that he frequently sang to it for 'hand-over-hand' hauling. Whall gives it on page 107 under the title 'Early in the morning.' It is one of the few shanties that were sung in quick time." Sir Richard Runciman Terry (1864 - April 18, 1938) was an English organist, choir director and musicologist. ...
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 till he’s sober, (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 with the captain's daughter, (3×)[1]
- 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!
- Pull out the plug and wet him all over, (3×)
- Early in the morning!
- Give 'im the hair of the dog that bit him, (3×)
- 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!
- Put 'im in charge of an Exxon tanker, (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!
- Keelhaul him, keelhaul him, (3×)
- Early in the morning!
- Shave his belly with a rusty razor, (3×)
- Early in the morning!
- Outro
- That’s what we’ll do with a drunken sailor, (3×)
- Early in the morning! (Amen)
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The Kingston Trio recorded "Early in the Morning" the chorus of which has the same tune but these lyrics: "When you lift your eyes and/see the sun a risin'/on the far horizon/early in the morning." The Kingston Trio is an American folk group, perhaps the single most prominent one. ...
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Holly Near recorded a version on her latest CD "Show Up" . The rewrite features the same tune with additional lyrics added that focus on the problem of alcohol addiction. Holly Near (born June 6th, 1949 in Ukiah, CA) is an American singer/songwriter, teacher and activist. ...
In 1987 Michael Steigerwald, Joseph Angelli, named The Radio Pirates, used the melody for their disco song "What Shall We Do With The Drunken D.J.". The song was issued on a single produced by Renzo Lucchetta and Paul Wucherpfennig (record number S 608932 B, Ariola Eurodisc also Hansa). The second song on the single was "Fix Your Antenna. Long Version".
The Brobdingnagian Bards combined "What Shall We Do with a Drunken Sailor" with the Scottish song "Donald, Where's Your Trousers?" which added extra depth to the "Way hey and up she rises" part of the chorus. The Brobdingnagian Bards are a Celtic music group from Austin, Texas. ...
It has been referenced in the film "The Truman Show" as well as the TV shows "The Office" and "Cheers."
The song can be sung as a round, or alongside another folk song, for example, 'O Sinner Man'.
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The instrumental version of the song is also used on the Nickelodeon series Spongebob Squarepants as the psuedo-theme of the Krusty Krab restaurant and its owner Eugene H. Krabs. Nickelodeon may refer to: Nickelodeon movie theater, an early 20th century form of small, neighborhood movie theaters Nickelodeon (film), a 1976 film directed by Peter Bogdanovich Nickelodeon (TV channel), a cable TV network whose demographic is primarily children and pre-teens in the United States. ...
This article is about the series. ...
Bikini Bottoms popular undersea eatery, the Krusty Krab restaurant. ...
This article does not cite any references or sources. ...
External links - Examples of claimed further lyric variations
- Example version with lyrics on the Internet Archive.
Internet Archive headquarters is in the Presidio, a former US military base in San Francisco. ...
References - ^ referring to a flogging, though, as the next verse demonstrates, not always interpreted that way
Whipping on a post Flagellation is the act of whipping (Latin flagellum, whip) the human body. ...
Sir Richard Runciman Terry (1864 - April 18, 1938) was an English organist, choir director and musicologist. ...
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Further reading - Stan Hugill, Shanties from the Seven Seas Mystic Seaport Museum 1994 ISBN 0-913372-70-6
Stan (Stanley Edward James) Hugill (Born November 19, 1906, died May 13, 1992. ...
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