What do we do with a Drunken Sailor?

'Way, hay, an' up she ris-es!  Pat-ent blocks o' diff'rent siz-es,
'Way, hay, an' up she ris-es!  Ear-lye in the morn-in'!
What shall we do wi' a drunk-en sail-or? 
What shall we do wi' a drunk-en sail-or?
What shall we do wi' a drunk-en sail-or?
Ear-lye in the morn-in'!

2.  Put him in the long-boat, till he gets sober.

'Way, hay, an' up she ris-es!  Pat-ent blocks o' diff'rent siz-es,
'Way, hay, an' up she ris-es!  Ear-lye in the morn-in'!

3.  Keep him there an' make him bale her.

4.  Trice him up in a runnin' bowline.

5.  Tie him to the taffrail when she's yardarm under.

6.  Put him in the scuppers with a hawse-pipe on him

7.  Take him, an' shake him, an' try an' wake him.

8.  What'll we do with a Limejuice skipper?

9.  Soak him in oil till he sprouts a flipper.

10. Scrape the hair off his chest with a hoop-iron razor.

11. What shall we do with a drunken soldier?

12. Put him in the barrack-room till he gets sober.

13. Put him in bed with the Captains daughter

14. Well, you ain't seen the Captains daughter...

15.  She looks like an orangutan,

16.  Swinging through the rigging.

17.  There she goes, swinging through the rigging,

18.  There she goes, swinging through the rigging,

19.  Give him a dose of salt and water...

20.  Shave his belly with a rusty razor...

21.  Give 'im a dose of salt and water.

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

23.  Stick on 'is back a mustard plaster.

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


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