Discover the story of the song > Drunken Sailor – The Irish Rovers

The song is about a group of people trying to figure out what to do with a sailor who is drunk early in the morning. The options presented include shaving his belly with a rusty razor, putting him in a long boat until he sobers up, sticking him in the scupper with a hosepipe on him, or even putting him in the bed with the captain's daughter. The chorus repeats the phrase "weigh-hey and up she rises" multiple times throughout the song.