The Drunken Sailor
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sea chanty
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
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Way hay and up she rises
Way hay and up she rises
Way hay and up she rises
Earl-eye in the morning
What shall we do with a drunken sailor?
What shall we do with a drunken sailor?
What shall we do with a drunken sailor?
Earl-eye in the morning!
Put him in a long-boat till he's sober
Keep him there and make 'im bale 'er.
Trice him up in a runnin' bowline.
Put him in the scuppers with a hose-pipe on him.
Take 'im and shake 'im and try an' wake 'im.
Give 'im a dose of salt and water.
Give 'im a taste of the bosun's rope-end.
Shave his belly with a rusty razor.
This is a halyard chanty. The first published description of<br> this chanty is found in an account of an 1839 whaling voyage<br> out of New London, Connecticut to the Pacific Ocean. there is some<br> indication that the shanty is at least as old as the 1820s.<br> This was the first song that our first band ever learned.<br> The guitar players with their plywood Harmony guitars didn't<br> know any chords by name so I taught them the<br> "spread-out chord" (Dm) and the "scrunchied-up chord" (Am).<br> John Letscher played his father's tamburitzin<br> bass and I played my uncle's bowl back mandolin.<br> We learned it from the Burl Ives Song Book.<br>
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