[Intro: distant harbor ambience, creaking timber, sparse concertina and low bowed strings; no drums] [Male group vocal, distant and rough, nearly unaccompanied] What shall we do with a drunken sailor? What shall we do with a drunken sailor? What shall we do with a drunken sailor? Early in the morning! [Refrain: stronger unison response, first subtle shuffled percussion entering] Way, hay, and up she rises, Way, hay, and up she rises, Way, hay, and up she rises, Early in the morning! [Instrumental break: recognizable melody carried by concertina and fiddle; deep sub-bass enters; crisp UK garage 2-step rhythm gradually develops] [Verse 2: rhythmic group vocal, tighter and more energetic] Put him in the longboat till he's sober, Put him in the longboat till he's sober, Put him in the longboat till he's sober, Early in the morning! [Refrain: full UK garage groove, layered call-and-response vocals] Way, hay, and up she rises, Way, hay, and up she rises, Way, hay, and up she rises, Early in the morning! [Break: drums drop away; chopped fragments of the refrain echo across the stereo field; concertina answers the vocal fragments] [Verse 3: increasingly processed group vocal over returning 2-step beat] Put him in the scuppers with a hosepipe on him, Put him in the scuppers with a hosepipe on him, Put him in the scuppers with a hosepipe on him, Early in the morning! [Final refrain: largest section; energetic ensemble vocals, deep UKG bass, shuffled percussion, fiddle and concertina woven through electronic textures] Way, hay, and up she rises, Way, hay, and up she rises, Way, hay, and up she rises, Early in the morning! [Outro: beat progressively strips away; distant unison voices repeat the final line once] Early in the morning! [Short instrumental tail: solo concertina states the melody over harbor ambience] [Hard Stop] [No Repeat]
