<P> The glut of writings on sailors' songs and published collections that came starting in the 1920s and which supported a revival of interest in shanty - singing for entertainment purposes on land . As such, R.R. Terry's very popular shanty collection, which had begun to serve as a resource for renditions of shanties on commercial recordings in the 1920s, was evidently used by the Robert Shaw Chorale for their 1961 rendition . The Norman Luboff Choir recorded the song in 1959 with the yet uncharacteristic phrasing, "What'll we do ...?" </P> <P> The song has been widely recorded under a number of titles by a range of performers including the King's Singers, Pete Seeger, The Blaggards, and most notably The Irish Rovers . It also forms part of a contrapuntal section in the BBC Radio 4 UK Theme by Fritz Spiegl, in which it is played alongside Greensleeves . </P> <P> For over 50 years The Irish Rovers have played the song as their usual show - closer . Several of their recordings of the song, sometimes under the name "Weigh Hey and up She Rises" have gone viral on YouTube . As a response, the band released the 2012 album, "Drunken Sailor" including the title track and a prequel that tells the earlier life of the' Drunken Sailor', called "Whores and Hounds". </P> <P> Don Janse produced an arrangement in the early 1960s which has been included in several choral music anthologies . The arrangement was first recorded by The Idlers, and has been performed by several collegiate groups over the years, including the Yale Alley Cats . </P>

Song what can you do with a drunken sailor