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Drunken Sailor Lyrics
Artist: Great Big Sea
Album: Great Big Sea
What do you do with a drunken sailor,
What do you do with a drunken sailor,
What do you do with a drunken sailor,
Earl-eye in the morning!
Chorus:
Way hay and up she rises
Way hay and up she rises
Way hay and up she rises
Earl-eye in the morning
Shave his belly with a rusty razor,
Shave his belly with a rusty razor,
Shave his belly with a rusty razor,
Earl-eye in the morning!
Chorus
Put him in the hold with the Captain's daughter,
Put him in the hold with the Captain's daughter,
Put him in the hold with the Captain's daughter,
Earl-eye in the morning!
Chorus
What do you do with a drunken sailor,
What do you do with a drunken sailor,
What do you do with a drunken sailor,
Earl-eye in the morning!
Chorus
Put him the back of the paddy wagon,
Put him the back of the paddy wagon,
Put him the back of the paddy wagon,
Earl-eye in the morning!
Chorus
Throw him in the lock-up 'til he's sober,
Throw him in the lock-up 'til he's sober,
Throw him in the lock-up 'til he's sober,
Earl-eye in the morning!
Chorus
What do you do with a drunken sailor,
What do you do with a drunken sailor,
What do you do with a drunken sailor,
Earl-eye in the morning!
Chorus
What do you do with a drunken sailor,
What do you do with a drunken sailor,
What do you do with a drunken sailor,
Earl-eye in the morning!
Chorus
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Comments/Interpretations
i love this shanty
THis song is alsome
Love this song. xD
Id like the idea of being locked up with the Capt daughter, If she's hot
Actually, the term "the captain's daughter" is navy slang for the cat o' nine tails, or a whip. Sailors that misbehaved would have their backs stripped of clothing and would be whipped.
billy was bangin his brother.
My sister and I sang this song in grade school
@ El Monte Elm. It was so much fun!!
I like johnnys comment way to ruin it gabby
SHAVES HIS BELLY WITH A RUSTY RAZOR
ow XD.
this song is getting used in our summer show but with different lyrics
we had to learn that at music at school it was so fun but it had different verses ;-)
we are learning it in school now
I sing this song in grd schl but dif vrses
this song is very special and weird in its own kind of way. :)
i sing this song in choir but it does not have the same lyrics
i love this song
Good song xd
it is funny and catchy and i think that is brilliant song
THIS SONG IS FUKINN SIKKK MANNNN
fuck yeeaaaaaa
if u like poo then go to amy warbuton
My dad was Irish and he sang this song all the time. I just now at age 59 looked to see if it was really a song!! I love it!
I played this song for sea cadet band. RCSCC Mariner 307
I sing this song every time I'm on a bus drunk.
We used to sing this song in music class when I was in grammar school. Along with "Jeremiah was a bullfrog" and "Mary Mack". No wonder I grew up selling booze for a living.
As a third generation sailor, this song was like mother's milk to my grandfather, father, me, my wife (also a Navy vet.) and my children. Then my son went and joined the Army...go figure! My daughter adapts it to "What do you do with a fussy baby...earl-ey in the morning. Here are some other verses we always sang, but the most fun is making them up as you go.
Throw him the bilge and make him drink it....Earl-eye in the morning!
But you ain't seen the Captain's daughter....earl-eye in the Morning!
Was I the only person who learned it "Shave his nuts with a rusty razor?"
Also they forgot, Lash him to the mast, with a bit o line
My father was in the navy and sung this all the time. He had another verse:
Keel-haul him til he's sober
Keel-haul him til he's sober
Keel-haul him til he's sober
Earl-eye in the mornin'
(you know that taking a person under the water all the length of the ship, hands and feet tied at either side of the boat)
loser song
and veery evil if you disagree
tell me
dude, ur username is duche. you're not really in a position to call the song a loser. u kinda already personify that title.
i gasemd over this shanty
Some highschoolers came to our school and sang this and did some mid-evil play things... and danced... weird.
I love the song, but the polish translation is far more better. More interesting lyrics... and more funny :)
I know what rises early in the morning...
hank, your comment made me laugh a lot
OMG!! I LOVE THIS SONG!!! It is such a classic and it's so funny! =D
We played it for County Band. Can't get over the lyrics!
Spongebob when some of the episodes start...not the theme song!!
Was that drunken Dakota enuff times, Navy vet ;-) Another verse.
"Sail by the buoys and kiss the min - Early eye in the mornin'."
Sail by the bout and kiss the nun. -Earleye in tha marnin.
I was that drunken Dakota many I times, lol. Navy vet. ;-)
We also sang, "Put him in a barrel and throw him over, earl-eye in the morning!"
Check out the naval academy men's glee club version, it's the unofficial looking one, my personal favorite
I am another who learned this in elementary school. Crawdad too! Fun days pre-PC! We used "Put him in the long boat 'til he's sober"
What do you do with a milk drunk Georgie are my favorite lyrics.
i adore that song !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I heard this song at 5 in the morning from my guy friend at a sleep over we were having when we were so delerious he started singing it. Good times
I heard it also as
"Put him in the long boat till he's sober" but I never heard the paddy wagon verse....can't see a wagon on a British Ship...LOL
hit him in the face with a forty pound mackerel
My daughter is singing a song that goes by this tune for her second grade music program about the environment. Instead it says "what do you do with a global warmer". I knew it sounded familiar, so I had to look this up. It's crazy how they decided to use this tune to come up with that song, so people will put a global warmer in the same "boat" as a drunken sailor. Aren't we all global warmers just because we exist?
Sang this in 3rd grade at Adams Elementary in Quincy, IL. Can't imagine kids singing it now. It is very catchy, I have always remembered it since the late 70's.
My finger hit the thumbs down by accident on Janelle's comment in 2008. I meant to hit thumbs up. The system won't let me change it. Sorry