The Drunken Sailor

for Male Voice (TTBB) chorus.

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Year of composition
2024
Lyricist
Traditional
Publisher
Difficulty
Moderate (Grades 4-6)
Duration
4 minutes
Genre
Classical music and Folk music
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The Drunken Sailor

This is an arrangment and development of the famous Sea Shanty for male TTBB (tenor and Bass) chorus.

Richard Maitland, an American sailor of the 1870s, sang it for ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax in 1939 when he explained, “Now this is a song that's usually sang when men are walking away with the slack of a rope, generally when the iron ships are scrubbing their bottom. After an iron ship has been twelve months at sea, there's a quite a lot of barnacles and grass grows onto her bottom. And generally, in the calm latitudes, up in the horse latitudes in the North Atlantic Ocean, usually they rig up a purchase for to scrub the bottom”.

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