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Thread #159399 Message #4009948
Posted By: Lighter
22-Sep-19 - 02:12 PM
Thread Name: Origins: What Shall We Do With a Drunken Sailor
Subject: RE: Origins: What Shall We Do With a Drunken Sailor
It was known in the British Army in World War I.
From "More Tommy's Tunes," by Lieut. F. T. Nettleinghame (1918), p.67:
"What shall we do with the drunken sailor?
Shave his head with a rusty razor...."