Anybody happen to know what the song is on this video?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZSAxJjXP0I

Please respond, I don't want a download link, just the song name, if anyone knows it.

Or even the lyrics would be great. Thanks.

It's a remastered version of an old English lullaby called "What do we do with a drunken sailor?". Of course, it's remastered so the lyrics won't be the same. "What do we do with a drunken whaler" is the trailer song and at this time you can't download it or listen to it anywhere. There could possibly be lyrics somewhere. Some YouTube users tried to extract the song from the trailer but only ended up raising the volume on it and lowering on the gamplay sounds.

Why pick a girl's voice and a child choir for lyrics like "slize his throat with a rusty cleaver"?? It's much too bizarre.. The instrumentals I've heard so far are great, but I really wish they would replace those singing children with some harsh drunk sailor that you'd assume would be standing in some fisherman's tavern near Dunwall's dock- emphazysing the good things Corvo is doing for the people during one of your lethal playthroughs. To me game music is used for creating an atmosphere that captures the setting- and I doubt we'll be seeing any children coming to Corvos aid with razors and cleavers. They should be locked up in some school for Corvo to rescue from the Lord Regent's brainwashing methods! Concidering the intence violence in this game, I'd feel rather uncomfortable if children were to have anything to do with any of it.. even if that only included singing.
The lyrics get even less relevant to the trailer if you're planning on playing the game non-lethally. Well- perhaps not to the trailer btw.. it's PRETTY lethal ′

And ruin the atmosphere the song builds up? It's perfect the way it is...The little girl's calm voice portrays the paradox in the lyrics. Putting you at ease yet tense with what you hear. And the chorus is great. The singers themselves are never connected to the context of the game. That would imply making the male choir of Halo be meaningful to the plot and things like that. The song we were given is perfect for the trailer due to the tones and the style the gameplay was presented in.

I hope the song is in the OST (seeing as it is a remastered song in order to fit the universe of Dishonored) because it is simply amazing.

Aghh I should probably edit my recent to "to each his own" but what's said is said. Good point there.

The lyrics are on the wiki, http://dishonored.wikia.com/wiki/%22What_Will_We_Do_with_a_Drunken_Whaler%3F%22.

thanks!

It has to be a little girl singing. It is meant to instill a feeling of corrupted innocence in a world of fear and hatred. It's about dystopia. A grizzled drunk singing a violent song doesn't tell you anything about the world. A young child humming songs of death, treachery and despair tells you this world is [censored] up.

No problem

Anyone know a good place to listen to The Assassin? I've registered to a site that claims six different versions. Not sure if it's pay to listen yet or what.

It's somewhere in podcast #14 http://www.bethblog.com/podcast/, I believe near either the beginning or end.

Neeuu.. Captain Obvious wrote the lyrics for that song. It was excessive, not symbolic, to put those lyrics out in that trailer because what they say is exactly what's shown. "Slice his throat" delivers nothing interesting to a scene where the only thing happening- rofl yeah- IS A FRIKKIN THROAT BEING SLIZED x'D

But your point is rock solid. The song can very well enhance the atmosphere of the setting. Or, be a rebel tune sung by the denizens of Dunwall, eagerly longing for a knight to bring the fight to the regent. As for the rebels however, I hope they got to savour enough civilized prosperity during the empress' reign to understand that children shouldn't be involved in murderous skeeming. Enough from me taking the plot of a trailer waaay to seriously. Dishonored will kick ass. Good talk.

What rebels are you talking about? This isn't a game about a revolution, it's a game about an assassin. There are no 'rebels.' Corvo has a small team of confederates in his quest for vengeance, but hardly what I would term a rebellion.

This might be why you're having trouble understanding the song choice. It's not the sort of game you seem to think it is. This isn't going to be a story about freedom fighters reforming a degenerate political structure, it's going to be the story of one very angry man killing bad people in a dark city. To have rebels singing about a hero would be altogether too optimistic, too proud, regardless of how minor a key you might write it in. It would imply that there is hope, that Corvo will make things better, a premise that from what we've heard is by no means certain. A singing child delicately enunciating vicious commands is more in keeping with this setting of fear and hatred. It speaks of corrupted innocence, thoughtless, subconscious acceptance of a violent life and ruined society.

There's a reason that twisted nursery rhymes have a chilling effect on most audiences. They are representations of a culture's values, distilled and simplified so as to be easy for young children to understand. When lines like 'slice his throat with a rusty cleaver' and 'feed him to the hungry rats for dinner' enter the songs the children sing, it sends the pretty clear message that society has failed. Rather more clearly than a rebel singing about how terrible life is or a dockworker singing a dark shanty. You expect that of those two. You don't expect children to be chanting to themselves about murder and carnage.

The original song isn't a lullaby though, it's a shanty, so not really the right argument to be using there. I agree with you otherwise though.

Yeah I messed that one up, sorry about that. But I completely agree with what SeriousFace said.

Well, it could be like V for Vendetta, with some sort of rebelion maybe

Thanks for bearing with me. I am under the impression that a rebellion may very well be made up by just a handfull of people as long as that's enough to stagger a regime. As for corvos small team of confederates, I bet some of them are backed up by not so pinned down civilians. At least it'd make an interesting story. Besides, since the empress died so recently along with quite a prosperous society, there's bound to be rebellion fever oozing out of those feebly lit windows around the cities. If you choose to play on behalf of the civilians(without provoking further oppressive guard patrolling) I bet you'll be introduced to some kind of underground network that hate everything about the new order. If not, I will still call Corvos little entourage a rebellion until I google for a definition. *google* You know, I think we've dabbled in this way too long

Touché haha

It's a fantastic song, suits the atmosphere in the game very well. Also seems like the girl singing will play a mayor role in the story.

Wouldn't hurt either if this would revitalize the somewhat shriveled sea shanty genre. I miss those mighty choirs of hoarse voiced sailors.

People... a little girl is singing it because little girls are creepy as [censored]-.

Also, yeah, the original song is a shanty...

Some famous verses include:
shave his belly with a rusty razor
keelhaul him until he's sober
lock him in the brig with the captains daughter
lock him in the brig until he's sober
Put him in the long-boat and make him bale her
Put him in the bilge and make him drink it
Put him in the scuppers with a hose-pipe on him

But pretty much any phrase that can be mushed into the melodic pattern will work and be slurrily repeated by everyone else singing.

Because of it's pattern, it was also used as a working song so that sailors doing chores that required cooperation could move in synch.

It really is a great drinking song, and you can make it into a game... go around the room and each person has to make up a verse. Either the first person who can't think of a verse loses, or you keep going until only one person can think of a verse and they win.

No they aren't... What is this, a generic 'horror' movie convention? The sense of discomfort doesn't come from the singer doing a little girl's voice or from the lyrics. It comes from the tone and melody, putting you at ease yet not completely, so much so that you can't trust it. Dead Space 2's lullaby trailer was 'creepy' because the footage was edited in a way to sync with the song and it's tone.

And yes we'd all like to know why you didn't get censored.

I'm a wizard.

When people seriously didn't know what this song was called...