Nursery rhymes and songs/What Do You Do With a Drunken Sailor
What do you do with a drunken sailor is a sea shanty that can be fun to do with children. The original shanty is about a drunken sailor but there are some variants geared more towards children.
Lyrics and Actions
[edit | edit source]Tickle variant
[edit | edit source]What do we do with a sleepy [child's name],
What do we do with a sleepy [child's name],
What do we do with a sleepy [child's name],
Early in the morning.
Take her and wake her and tickle her all over, (tickle child)
Take her and wake her and tickle her all over, (tickle child)
Take her and wake her and tickle her all over, (tickle child)
Early in the morning.
Heave ho and up she rises, (lift child in the air)
Heave ho and up she rises, (lift child in the air)
Heave ho and up she rises, (lift child in the air)
Early in the morning.