About This Song
About "I'm Popeye, The Sailor Man" by Billy Costello
Costello's gravelly growl animates the spinach-fueled sailor with vaudevillian relish. The tune is a tin-toy march, brassy and absurd, tooting its own pipe with unearned confidence. Beneath the children's chorus lies a scrappy, saltwater defiance—popeye as punk prototype.