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A Paddlin' Song?

Traveller

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Apr 21, 2005
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Greenville, NC
I saw this song on another website and immediately thought about the southern paddler.....don't ask me why, I just did.



DRUNKEN SAILOR

What shall we do with a drunken sailor?
What shall we do with a drunken sailor?
What shall we do with a drunken sailor?

Ear-lye in the mornin'?

CHORUS:

Way, hey, an' up she rises!
Way, hey, an' up she rises!
Way, hey, an' up she rises!

Ear-lye in the morning.

Put him in the longboat 'til he's sober.
Put him in the longboat 'til he's sober.
Put him in the longboat 'til he's sober.

Earl-eye in the morning.


CHORUS


Now, pick and chose amongst the many verses of this song which you would like to sing!

• Keep him there and make him bail 'er.

• Give him a dose of salt and water.

• Shave his belly with a rusty razor.

• Trice him up in a runnin' bowline.

• Tie him to the taffrail when she's yard-arm under.

• Put him in the scuppers with a hose-pipe on him.

• Take 'im and shake 'im and try an' wake 'im.

• Give 'im a taste of the bosun's rope-end.

• Stick on 'is back a mustard plaster.

• Soak 'im in oil till he sprouts a flipper.

• Put him in the guard room till he gets sober.

• Put him in bed with the captain's daughter.

• ‘Cause, she looks like an orangutan,

• There she goes, swinging through the rigging,

THE FINAL VERSE SHOULD ALWAYS BE A REPRISE OF VERSE ONE WITH NO CHORUS AFTER IT!