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Drunken Sailor

Sea shanty
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Drunken Sailor
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Drunken Sailor

Summary

Drunken Sailor is a musical work/composition[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of musical_work_composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,679 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Drunken Sailor's instance of is recorded as musical work/composition[3].
  • Drunken Sailor's genre is sea shanty[4].
  • Drunken Sailor's Commons category is recorded as What Shall We Do With The Drunken Sailor[5].
  • Drunken Sailor's language of work or name is recorded as English[6].
  • Drunken Sailor's tonality is recorded as Dorian mode[7].
  • Drunken Sailor's title is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Drunken Sailor'}[8].
  • Drunken Sailor's has characteristic is recorded as traditional folk song[9].
  • Drunken Sailor's form of creative work is recorded as song[10].

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Genre(s): hornpipe[11]

  • Community tags: hornpipe[12]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 0746f9ea-1cbf-4ba3-8c0e-0ab28ac409ae[13]

Body

Publication

Drunken Sailor's language of work or name is recorded as English[6]. Its genre is sea shanty[4].

Why It Matters

Drunken Sailor ranks in the top 2% of musical_work_composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,679 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 11 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[14] It is known by 10 alternative names across languages and contexts.[15]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [11] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [12] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [13] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [14] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [15] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). Drunken Sailor. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/drunken-sailor
MLA “Drunken Sailor.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 3 May. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/drunken-sailor.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_drunken-sailor_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{Drunken Sailor}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/drunken-sailor}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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Edit History

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  1. 12d ago · Kiwigirl3850 · 2026-05-14 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Genre → —
    Genre → sea shanty
    Has characteristic → traditional folk song
    Tonality → Dorian mode
    + 6 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1 */ [[Property:P1829]]: s:322"
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