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What Shall We Do With a Drunken Sailor
Robert Palomo
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Here’s the classic sea song you know. The sea shanty group I play with is planning to record it for a video production. Right now we sing it like 99.9% of all sea shanty groups on the planet: straight thru with all the voices in unison on the chorus and no rhythmic variation.
I worked up this arrangement that is just a wee bit different, mainly in the backing vocals. But there’s also some percussive variation in the instrument accompaniment.
What do you think? Should we just record it straight (path of least resistance), or work up this more difficult arrangement? There are pros and cons (and votes) both ways. I know what I’d like, of course!
Fire Jam Band
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I had never heard all of the words to this song till now. I hear the music daily because my son watches Sponge Bob. Thanks for sharing it. Perfect professional track!
slkrell
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I d like to hear 1 chorus instrumental with the whistle forward and leading, Just my humble take. Love these tunes
Nightmoth
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I have always been very fond of this song, and have enjoyed over a hundred versions in my 54 years on planet Earth. This one sails very near the top of the best versions of this most definitive sea shanty that I've heard.
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Nice one really cool