What Do We Do With a Drunken Sailor

~ Recording by David Thomas

Appears on releases

#TitleLengthTrack ArtistRelease TitleRelease ArtistRelease Group TypeCountry/DateLabelCatalog#
Official
2.11What Do We Do With a Drunken Sailor3:45David ThomasRogue’s Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs, & ChanteysVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
  • GB2006-08-21
Anti‐6817-2
2.11What Do We Do With a Drunken Sailor3:45David ThomasRogue’s Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs, & ChanteysVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
  • US2006-08-22
Anti‐86817-2
Bootleg
2.11What Do We Do With a Drunken Sailor3:45David ThomasRogue’s Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs, & ChanteysVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
Soyuz Music6817-2

Relationships

assistant engineer:Tom Hough
engineer:Tim Roe
mixer:Martin Brumbach
bass:Rory McFarlane
diatonic button accordion [melodeon]:David Thomas (US singer-songwriter/musician: Pere Ubu/Rocket From the Tombs)
drums (drum set):Andy Newmark
guitar:Leo Abrahams
percussion:Martyn Barker
saxophone [sax]:Kate St John
strings:Warren Ellis (Australian musician and score composer)
vocals:David Thomas (US singer-songwriter/musician: Pere Ubu/Rocket From the Tombs)
recorded at:The Town House in Shepherd's Bush, Hammersmith and Fulham, London (Greater London), England, United Kingdom
mixed at:House of Knuck in New York, New York, United States
recording of:What Shall We Do With a Drunken Sailor?

Related works

What Shall We Do With a Drunken Sailor?

lyricist and composer:[traditional] (special purpose artist)
publisher:Lugan Music
referred to in medleys:English Folk Song Medley
later translated versions:El marinero borracho
איידישע פיראטען
later versions:Drunken Whaler
is the basis for:Drunken Alien
Fantasy on British Sea Songs
Meerjungfraumann Und Blaubarschbube
Three Shanties for Wind Quintet, op. 4: I. Allegro con brio