What Shall We Do With A Drunken Sailor?
Traditional Sea Chanty· Novelty / Silly / Funny Songs · p.454
Em
What shall we do with a drunken sailor?
D
What shall we do with a drunken sailor?
Em
What shall we do with a drunken sailor?
Em D Em
Early in the morning.
Chorus:
Way, hey, and up she rises, (3 times)
Early in the morning.
Put him in the longboat till he's sober, etc.
Pull out the plug and wet him all over, etc.
Put him in the scuppers with a hose pipe on him, etc.
Heave him by the leg in a running bowline, etc.
Shave his belly with a rusty razor, etc.
Put him in bed with the captain’s daughter, etc.
*Roud index 322. 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?". www.wikipedia.org