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.

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Long we've tossed on the rolling main, now we're safe ashore, Jack.
Don't forget yer old shipmate, faldee raldee raldee raldee rye-eye-doe!

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Since we sailed from Plymouth Sound, four years gone, or nigh, Jack.
Was there ever chummies, now, such as you and I, Jack?

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 We have worked the self-same gun, quarterdeck division.
Sponger I and loader you, through the whole commission.

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 Oftentimes have we laid out, toil nor danger fearing,
Tugging out the flapping sail to the weather earring.

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 When the middle watch was on and the time went slow, boy,
Who could choose a rousing stave, who like Jack or Joe, boy?

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 There she swings, an empty hulk, not a soul below now.
Number seven starboard mess misses Jack and Joe now.

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 But the best of friends must part, fair or foul the weather.
Hand yer flipper for a shake, now a drink together.

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 Long we've tossed on the rolling main, now we're safe ashore, Jack.
Don't forget yer old shipmate, faldee raldee raldee raldee ry