Don’t forget your Old Shipmate
Safe and sound at home again |
Let the waters roar Jack
Safe and sound at home again
Let the waters roar Jack
Long we’ve tossed on the rolling main
Now we’re safe ashore Jack
Don’t forget your old shipmate
Fe de ral deer ral dee ral dee rye eye oh
Since we sailed from Plymoth Sound
Four years gone, or nigh, Jack
Was there ever chummies now
Such as you and I, Jack
Long we’ve tossed on the rolling main
|Now we’re safe ashore Jack
Don’t forget your old shipmate
Fe de ral deer ral dee ral dee rye eye oh
We have worked the self-same gun
Quarterdeck division
Sponger I and loader you
Through the whole commission
Long we’ve tossed on the rolling main
|Now we’re safe ashore Jack
Don’t forget your old shipmate
Fe de ral deer ral dee ral dee rye eye oh
Oftentimes have we laid out
Toil nor danger fearing
Tugging out the flapping sail
Through the weather rearing
Long we’ve tossed on the rolling main
Now we’re safe ashore Jack
Don’t forget your old shipmate
Fe de ral deer ral dee ral dee rye eye oh
When the middle watch was on
And the time went slow, boy
Who could choose a rousing stave
Who like Jack and Joe Boy?
Long we’ve tossed on the rolling main
Now we’re safe ashore Jack
Don’t forget your old shipmate
Fe de ral deer ral dee ral dee rye eye oh
There she swings an empty hulk
Not a soul below now
Number seven starboard deck
Misses Jack and Joe now
Long we’ve tossed on the rolling main
Now we’re safe ashore Jack
Don’t forget your old shipmate
Fe de ral deer ral dee ral dee rye eye oh
But the best of friends must pass
Fair or foul the weather
Hand ye flipper for a shake
Now a drink together
Long we’ve tossed on the rolling main
Now we’re safe ashore Jack
Don’t forget your old shipmate
Fe de ral deer ral dee ral dee rye eye oh
Long we’ve tossed on the rolling main
Now we’re safe ashore Jack
Don’t forget your old shipmate
Fe de ral deer ral dee ral dee rye eye oh