Verse 1:

[Dm] What'll we do with a drunken sailor,

[C] What'll we do with a drunken sailor,

[Dm] What'll we do with a drunken sailor,

[C] Earl-aye in the [Dm] morning?

Chorus:

[Dm] Way hay and up she rises

[C] Patent blocks o' diff'rent sizes,

[Dm] Way hay and up she rises

[C] Earl-aye in the [Dm] morning

2. Sling him in the long boat till he's sober

Chorus

3. Trice him up in a runnin' bowline.

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

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

6. Stick on 'is back a mustard plaster.

7. Shave his belly with a rusty razor.

8. Send him up the crow's nest till he falls down.

9. Put him in the scuppers with a hose-pipe on him.

10. Soak 'im in oil till he sprouts flippers.

11. Put him in the guard room till he's sober.

12. Put him in bed with the captain's daughter

13. Take the Baby and call it Bo'sun.

14. Put him in the scuffs until the horse bites on him.

15. Heave him by the leg and with a rung console him.

16. That's what we'll do with the drunken sailor