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The verses in Masefield's version asked what to do with a "drunken sailor", followed by a response, then followed by a question about a "drunken soldier", with an appropriate response. Capt. W. B. Whall, a veteran English sailor of the 1860s–70s, was the next author to publish on "Drunken Sailor".
Another similar album was released in 1983, called "The Drunken Sailor". The rights for "Music for Pleasure" were sold to EMI Gold, who released an hour-long cassette called "Favourite Nursery Rhymes" in 1985. It contained all these tracks except "Old Woman Tossed Up in a Blanket" and "Boys and Girls come out to Play".
While the melody bears a resemblance to the nineteenth century English sea shanty "Drunken Sailor", several versions of the Irish tune and chorus are identifiable. In 1884, Francis Hogan of Brenormore, near Carrick-on-Suir , then "well over seventy years of age", reported that "this song used to be played at the 'Hauling Home', or the bringing ...
The Drunken Sailor and other Kids Favorites is an album by Tim Hart and Friends.. This album follows Tim Hart's first collection "My Very Favorite Nursery Rhymes". There is a greater variety in treatment - "Hush Little Baby" is sung as a calypso, with the tune of "Island in the Sun" on oil-drums creeping in at the end.
Rogue's Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs and Chanteys is a compilation album of sea shanties produced by Hal Wilner.Songs are performed by artists representing a variety of genres, ranging from pop musicians like Sting, Bono, Jarvis Cocker, Lou Reed, Nick Cave and Bryan Ferry, to actors like John C. Reilly, to folk musicians like Richard Thompson, Loudon Wainwright III and Martin Carthy.
Songs of Sailor and Sea / Navy Hymn / Drunken Sailor / Blow the Man Down / The Sea Treaders 92.150 5th 2004 Innovations! The Passions of Shostakovich: Festive Overture / Fire Of Eternal Glory / Symphony No. 10 / Symphony No. 5 95.450 3rd 2005 Variations in "B" - Music by Barber, Bartok, Bizet and Britten
The band's most famous songs have been renditions of the folk music classics "The Log Driver's Waltz" and "Drunken Sailor", as well as a cover of the Arrogant Worms' "The Last Saskatchewan Pirate".
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