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What Shall We Do With The Drunken Sailor
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One of the best known of all sea shanties!
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Eclecticist in the positive sense, in broadest terms between Classical Music, Blues, Country, Folk, Rock, transforming himself into the entire variation of styl
JS (Joerg Sommermeyer) started at the tender age of ten with a dust-ridden 'beater' Harmony six-string acoustic dreadnought passed down from his father. While growing up in South Germany he first cut his teeth every evening around sundown while playing for his family. Later, he played in a band, hit the local scene and studied classical guitar with Victor von Hasselmann and Anton Stingl. Eclecticist in the positive sense, in broadest terms between Classical Music, Blues, Country, Folk, Rock, transforming himself into the entire variation of styles, with elements of Jazz, without fear of venturing into Pop, for the past five years, JS (Joerg Sommermeyer) has been performing with his group The Black Djemba. The band has enjoyed playing to their ever-increasing following in the Southern Germany Area and has gotten favourable reviews. Their material seems to be ever changing and hard to pin down categorically. What always remains the same is the unique and wide-ranging musical personality of JS (Joerg Sommermeyer). Besides Joerg Sommermeyer is the author of the antinovel , "Pat[(h) o/a] physischer Antiroman, Tragigroteskenfragment”, published in December 2008.
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Charts
#7 in subgenre Peak #3
Charts
Peak #100
Author
Traditional, arr. Joerg Sommermeyer
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JS (Joerg Sommermeyer)
Uploaded
May 05, 2004
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MP3 2.4 MB 128 kbps 2:37
Story behind the song
One of the best known of all sea shanties, "What Shall We Do With The Drunken Sailor" is a windlass and capstan work song. It was a favourite runabout or 'stamp and go' shanty and, unlike many, it did not require a soloist, being originally sung by all hands as they ran away with the braces when swinging the yards round in tacking the ship. Many versions of the song exist and its modal melody has suffered many a change. As R. R. Terry pointed out: 'I have generally found that perversions of the tune are due to sailors who took to the sea as young men in the last days of the sailing ship and consequently did not imbibe to the full the old traditions. With the intolerance of youth, they assumed that the modal turn given to a shanty by the older sailor was the mark of ignorance, since it did not square with their idea of a major or minor key.' No amount of 'regularising', however, can disguise the old modality of this popular shanty. Meine instrumentale Version des Klassikers "What Shall We Do With The Drunken Sailor". Das Traditional mit seiner kennzeichnenden modalen Melodik ist vielleicht das berühmteste und auch beliebteste Shanty, welches die Seeleute bei ihrer Arbeit sangen.
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