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Favorite Lyric for "Drunken Sailor"


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Ahoy, mates!

The crew of the Adventure is putting together a stage show and we're looking for original but period lyrics to "Drunken Sailor." We intend to open the show and draw the crowd by singing "What Do Ye Do With A Drunken Sailor?" If you have a favorite lyric that is period but isn't one that is song often, send it in and you may hear it at Lawton, Middlefaire, or Pirate Days in The Colony! Here's an example - "lash up his chest and show him the keel!"

I thank ye!

Blackbead

"In the end, it's not the gold that sets our sails,

'Tis freedom and the promise of a better life

That raises our black flags."

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Ahoy, mates!

If you have a favorite lyric that is period but isn't one that is song often, send it in and you may hear it at Lawton, Middlefaire, or Pirate Days in The Colony! Here's an example - "lash up his chest and show him the keel!"

Blackbead

I always like

"Give him a taste of the Captain's Daughter"

which owing to lack of knowledge of slang the public often thinks this reference to having him flogged is actually "dirty" and hence isn't sung very often or gets changed some weird way as if the captian actually has a daughter on board. :rolleyes:

I think it's a great lyric to have and enjoy explaining it to the public- so they have fun and learn something at the same time.

Why am I sharing my opinion? Because I am a special snowflake who has an opinion of such import that it must be shared and because people really care what I think!

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I've always liked that one, too, Graydog, and I totally agree that it gives you a chance to add more knowledge to the public's pirate genius rating. THank you, very much, for the response!

"In the end, it's not the gold that sets our sails,

'Tis freedom and the promise of a better life

That raises our black flags."

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::Ooh! Ooh! I got one! Over here! Me! Me! Over here! I got one! I got one! Over here! Me! Me! Over here! Ooh! Ooh! Me! I got one! I got one!::

Hows 'bout:

What shall we do with a drunken sailor,

Earl-eye in the morning?

What shall we do with a drunken sailor,

Earl-eye in the morning?

What shall we do with a drunken sailor,

Earl-eye in the morning?

Hoo–ray/Wey–hey/Heave-ho and up she rises,

Earl-eye in the morning?

Hoo–ray/Wey–hey/Heave-ho and up she rises,

Earl-eye in the morning?

Hoo–ray/Wey–hey/Heave-ho and up she rises,

Earl-eye in the morning?

Smack 'em o'er th' head, Drag 'em t' Capital Hill with all th' others!

Earl-eye in the morning?

Smack 'em o'er th' head, Drag 'em t' Capital Hill with all th' others!

Earl-eye in the morning?

Smack 'em o'er th' head, Drag 'em t' Capital Hill with all th' others!

Earl-eye in the morning?

:blink:

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So keep yer cutlass sharp, 'n keep her close!

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I was always a fan of these loverly three, besides the Captain's Daughter..

Shave his belly with a Rusty razor

Put him in the bilge and make him drink it

And last, but not least

Put him in the crows nest and watch him fall down.

Lovely methods to insure sobriety :rolleyes:

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Sally wears a dress? I didn't think she wore a dress. A leather corset, aye.

Welp, if anyone of ye know m' (stuffed) monkey, King George... he's been known as the Drunken Monkey. So, someone began singing-

"What shall we do with the Drunken Monkey..."

...aaaannnnd, I'll let ye develope the rest and leave it to yo'r imaginations. :blink:

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Tempt Fate! an' toss 't all t' Hell!"

"I'm completely innocent of whatever crime I've committed."

The one, the only,... the infamous!

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Throw him into bed with the Captains Daughter....

Have you SEEN the Captains daughter?...

There she goes, swing'n through the rigg'n....

Well, you may not realize it but your looking at the remains of what was once a very handsome woman!

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Run him up the mast like a jolly roger...

Put him in a pickle barrel till he's sober....

Toss him in the bilge with the rats and roaches....

...schooners, islands, and maroons

and buccaneers and buried gold...

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Sit 'im with Stynky for a-bout an hour.

Mycroft: "My brother has the brain of a scientist or a philosopher, yet he elects to be a detective. What might we deduce about his heart?"

John: "I don't know."

Mycroft: "Neither do I. But initially he wanted to be a pirate."

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put 'im in a dress and call 'im Sally,... :lol:

Actually you could sing... put him in a dress and call him Maddogge... it works...


"I being shot through the left cheek, the bullet striking away great part of my upper jaw, and several teeth which dropt down the deck where I fell... I was forced to write what I would say to prevent the loss of blood, and because of the pain I suffered by speaking."~ Woodes Rogers

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Tie 'im to a grate and serve him forty...

Water his grog to 100x homeopathic, water his grog to 100x homeopathic, water his grog to ... what're you lookin' at?!

Feed him a whole bottle of Viagra, Feed him a whole bottle of Viagra, Feed him a whole bottle of Viagra...

(Why, I hear you ask? "Way, hay, and up she rises...") :P

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Aye but shouldn't the he in the equation be doing the rising?


"I being shot through the left cheek, the bullet striking away great part of my upper jaw, and several teeth which dropt down the deck where I fell... I was forced to write what I would say to prevent the loss of blood, and because of the pain I suffered by speaking."~ Woodes Rogers

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Put 'im in th' scuppers with a 'osepipe on 'im!

Put 'im in th' scuppers with a 'osepipe on 'im!

Put 'im in th' scuppers with a 'osepipe on 'im!

Earl-eye in th' mornin'!

...Perhaps it's jest me, but I love th' word "scuppers". :blink:

'N if ye go too far 'n can't think've anything...

"Make 'im learn th' words t' this bloody shantey!"

Agnes "Flint" Locke

"All the world's a stage! ...And I just fell into the orchestra pit."

Newbie o' th' Drunken Ferret

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. . . scribbling furiously, taking down all of these excellent suggestions . . .

"In the end, it's not the gold that sets our sails,

'Tis freedom and the promise of a better life

That raises our black flags."

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