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Drunken Sailor. "Drunken Sailor". Song. Written. 19th century or earlier. Genre. Sea shanty. " Drunken Sailor ", also known as " What Shall We Do with a/the Drunken Sailor? " or " Up She Rises ", is a traditional sea shanty, listed as No. 322 in the Roud Folk Song Index. It was sung aboard sailing ships at least as early as the 1830s.
Louis Jordan and the Tympany Five (then known as The Elks Rendezvous Band) recorded a clean version in 1938. [4] In the first Fleischer Popeye cartoon, Popeye the Sailor (1933), "Barnacle Bill" was used as the recurring theme for the Bluto character. A later Fleischer Popeye cartoon, Beware of Barnacle Bill (1935), is a mock operetta based ...
Good Ship Venus. " Good Ship Venus ", also known as " Friggin' in the Riggin ", is a bawdy drinking song devised to shock with ever increasingly lewd and debauched sexual descriptions of the eponymous ship's loose-moralled crew. The tune usually used (especially for the chorus) is "Go In and Out the Window". [citation needed]
Bell Bottom Trousers. "Bell Bottom Trousers" is a reworking of the folksong "Rosemary Lane". A sea shanty version has bawdy lyrics, but a clean version of the tune was written in 1944 for modern audiences by bandleader Moe Jaffe. [1]
Oscar Brand was a Canadian-born American folk singer-songwriter, radio host, and author. He released nearly 100 albums and composed hundreds of songs, among them Canadian patriotic songs, songs of the U.S. Armed Forces, sea shanties, presidential campaign songs over the years, and songs of protest.
Pirate metal, viking metal. A sea shanty, shanty, chantey, or chanty (/ ˈʃæntiː /) is a genre of traditional folk song that was once commonly sung as a work song to accompany rhythmical labor aboard large merchant sailing vessels. The term shanty most accurately refers to a specific style of work song belonging to this historical repertoire.
Bang Bang Lulu. " Bang Bang Lulu " is a traditional American song with many variations. It derives from older songs most commonly known as " Bang Bang Rosie " in Ireland, " Bang Away Lulu " in Appalachia, [1] and " My Lula Gal " in the West. [2][6] The form "Bang Bang Lulu" became widespread in the United States from its use as a cadence during ...
Blow the man down, bullies, pull him around. Blow the man down, you darlings, lie down, Blow the man down for fair London town. When the Black Baller is ready for sea, That is the time that you see such a spree. There's tinkers, and tailors, and soldiers, and all, They all ship for sailors on board the Black Ball.