Drunken Sailor
Traditional Irish


What'll we do with a drunken sailor
What'll we do with a drunken sailor
What'll we do with a drunken sailor
Earl-aye in the morning?


Chorus:

Way hay and up she rises
Way hay and up she rises
Way hay and up she rises
Earl-aye in the morning


Additional Verses

Sling him in the long boat till he's sober - Chorus

Keep him there and make 'im bale 'er - Chorus

Pull out the plug and wet him all over - Chorus

Take 'im and shake 'im, try an' wake 'im - Chorus

Trice him up in a runnin' bowline - Chorus

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

Give 'im a dose of salt and water - Chorus

Stick on 'is back a mustard plaster - Chorus

Shave his belly with a rusty razor - Chorus

Send him up the crow's nest till he falls down - Chorus

Tie him to the taffrail when she's yardarm under - Chorus

Put him in the scuppers with a hose-pipe on him - Chorus

Soak 'im in oil till he sprouts flippers - Chorus

Put him in the guard room till he's sober - Chorus

Put him in bed with the "captain's daughter" - Chorus

Take the Baby and call it Bo'sun - Chorus

Turn him over and drive him windward - Chorus

Put him in the scuffs until the horse bites on him - Chorus

Heave him by the leg and with a rung console him - Chorus

That's what we'll do with the drunken sailor - Chorus


"in bed with the captain's daughter" sounds much better than it actually was. A captain's daughter was an instrument of punishment similar to a cat-o-nine-tails.
Personally, we prefer the line, "What'll we do with a drunken singer."