Origins: What Shall We Do With a Drunken Sailor

Subject: RE: Origins: What Shall We Do With a Drunken Sailor
From: GUEST,Phil d'Conch
Date: 26 Jul 23 - 01:20 AM

After I posted that I found Gibb mentioned Roberts, but without the lyric, in the Advent thread back in 2013. Missed it. Here's a "clean" one for the offensive lyric protestors:

““Hurrah! hurrah! up she's rising,––
Stamp and go, boys! up she's rising,––
Round with a will! and up she's rising,
                        Early in the morning.

What shall us do with a lubberly sailor?—
What shall us do with a lubberly sailor?—
Put him in the long-boat and make him bale her,
                        Early in the morning.

Hurrah! hurrah! up she's rising.”––
                        &c. &c. ad infinitum.
                                                Anchor Song.”
[Forest Scenes in Norway and Sweden: Being Extracts from the Journal of a Fisherman, Newland, 1855]
Henry Garrett Newland (1805 – 1860)

Subject: RE: Origins: What Shall We Do With a Drunken Sailor
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 26 Jul 23 - 10:49 AM

What shall we do with the drunken sailor?

What shall we do with the drunken sailor?
Let’s blame him for societies failures
The Captain’s mad, the ship’s sprung a leak
Let’s crack the whip and blame the weak.

What shall we do with the poor and friendless
Don’t you find their whining endless?
I’m not Christ, I can’t cure the lame
Surely they’ve themselves to blame.

What shall we do with homeless losers
The scroungers, those professional users
Sleeping on the streets with a begging bowl
Spent their money on drugs, so they want more dole

What do we do with the rich, for heaven’s sake
We give them all a nice tax break
Look in the papers at their holiday snaps
Give them a title, we need those chaps

How we need their investment inward
We beg to labour in their vineyards
At their feet we cringe and grovel
Let them put us in this spiritual hovel.

Subject: RE: Origins: What Shall We Do With a Drunken Sailor
From: GUEST,Jon Bartlett
Date: 26 Jul 23 - 11:54 PM

Put 'im in a cab to an AA meeting...