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Thread #118204   Message #2553651
Posted By: Tattie Bogle
31-Jan-09 - 10:06 AM
Thread Name: P.C. version Drunken Sailor
Subject: RE: P.C. version Drunken Sailor
Written on a roughish ferry back from Stromness (Orkney) to Scrabster after the 2006 Orkney Folk Festival: yes, Gerry, folkies do borrow songs and re-vamp them!

1.         What shall we do with the drunken folkie? X 3
        Earleye in the morning.

Chorus: Weigh hey and up she rises, etc

2.        Put her on a ferry bound for Scrabster, etc

3.        Tie all the drinks down to the tables, etc

4.        Piper's on the stern deck playing for dancing, etc

5.        Highland Schottische makes Janet feel seasick, etc

6.        Better make sure you have the sick bags handy, etc
       (Chorus of retching noises! and up she rises!)

7.        Cars on the car deck rocking and rolling, etc

8.        Singing all the songs about the sea and shipwrecks, etc

9.         Let's all wave to the Old Man of Hoy, etc

10.        Smoother by far is the Superfast ferry, etc

11.        Bet that we're all coming back next year, etc
        That's one thing that's certain.