
Gareth Malone, Gillian Moore and Dele Sosimi head from Benin to Havana
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What Should We Do With the Drunken Sailor?
Our opening track today is Yoruba by the Gengbe brass band with Femi Kuti. The drunken sailor took me to an album that I bought years ago called Broke's Gallery, which was where lots of people got together and recorded shanties. And this one particularly appealed to me is by Eliza Karthik - full of energy, and it's a little bit saucy. Don't you see them, ships are common, don't yousee them in full sail? "Oh my little rolling sailor, oh my little rolling he, how I look my rolling sailor"
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