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joe

This is a great sea shanty and also a popular song in pubs and a great song to get the crowd going. It inspires the rabel rowsers

Drunken Sailor

Em
 What’ll you do with a drunken sailor

D
 What’ll you do with a drunken sailor

 Em                                                       D                Em
 What’ll you do with a drunken sailor early in the morning.
                                    
 (1)
 Em
 Put him in the longboat till he gets sober

 D                             
 Put him in the longboat till he gets sober

 Em
 Put him in the longboat till he gets sober early in the morning
 

 Em                                 D
 Hi ho and up she rises, Hi ho and up she rises

 Em                                D               Em
 Hi ho and up she rises early in the morning...........(To the TOP)
 
 
 
 (2) Put him in the bilge and make him drink it (3 times)… early in the morning
 

 (3) Tie him to the scuppers with the hose pipe on him (3 times) early in the morning
 

 (4) Shave his belly with a rusty razor ( 3 times) early in the morning
 

 (5) Keel haul him till he’s sober ( 3 itmes)early in the morning 
 

 (6) Heave him by the leg in a running bowline ( 3 times) early in the morning
 

 (and many more verses)