Drunken Sailor

Traditional

For tenor sax and piano

Written in F major, range F4 to G5

Early in the morning, a ship’s crew argue about what to do with a drunken sailor: put him in the longboat till he’s sober, shave his belly with a rusty razor, or hose him down. Its tune uses an old scale that sounds neither quite major nor minor, which gives it its rough sea-song feel.

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