Spieluhr | Drunken Sailor

Text von Drunken Sailer

What shall we do with a drunken sailor,
What shall we do with a drunken sailor,
What shall we do with a drunken sailor,
Early in the morning?

Refrain:
Hoo ray and up she rises,
Hoo ray and up she rises,
Hoo ray and up she rises,
Early in the morning

Traditionelle Verse:
1. Put him in the long boat till he’s sober,
2. Put him in the scuppers with a hose-pipe on him.
3. Shave his belly with a rusty razor.
4. Put him in bed with the captain’s daughter.
5. Take him and shake him and try to awake him.

Zusätzliche Verse:
6. Have you seen the captain’s daughter?
7. Put him in the bilge and make him drink it
8. Truss him up with a runnin’ bowline.
9. Give ’im a dose of salty water.
10. Stick on ’is back a mustard plaster.
11. Send him up the crow’s nest till he falls down,
12. Tie him to the taffrail when she’s yardarm under,
13. Soak ’im in oil ’til he sprouts a flipper.
14. Put him in the guard room ’til he’s sober.
15. That’s what we’ll do with the drunken sailor.
16. Keel haul ’im ’til he’s sober.
17. Put him in a hole with an angry weasel.
18. Scratch his back with a cat o’ nine tails.
19. Put him in the brig on bred and water.

Der zusätzliche Vers unter 15. beendet den Shanty und wird daher am Schluss gesungen.

Variationen:

a. Keep him there and make ’im bale ’er.
b. Pull out the plug and wet him all over,
c. Shave his balls with a rusty razor.
d. Give ’im a taste of the bosun’s rope-end.
e. Heave ’im by the leg with a runnin’ bowline.

Variation Refrain:
Weigh heigh and up she rises.