“The Drunken Sailor”

1. A song of the sea. Some lines from it are:

   What shall we do with the drunken sailor,

   What shall we do with the drunken sailor,

   Early in the morning?

   Hooray and up she rises,

   Early in the morning.

Example Sentences

“We are just like the drunken sailor with fifty bucks left in his pocket,” Kerr said, “we are going to spend it until it runs out and figure it out from there.”

From Seattle Times

The drunken sailor McGlue, the protagonist of Moshfegh’s 2014 novella of the same name, cocoons himself in his addiction and repeatedly bashes his skull against the wall.

From The New Yorker

The entire plot boils down to a line in a sea shanty: What should we do with the drunken sailor?

From Los Angeles Times

She was equally dauntless in their defence, whether it was against a dog, or the geese, or the cattle of the field, or the gipsy, or the drunken sailor.

From Project Gutenberg

A variant occurs in where Brennan plays the drunken sailor, Eddie, Bogart's companion at sea and sometimes on land; when asked "What do you look after him for", Bogart replies with chivalric simplicity: "He thinks he's looking after me."

From The Guardian