Don't Forget Your Old Shipmates

<Long we've tossed on the rolling main, now we're safe ashore Jack

Don't forget your old shipmates, folly-rolly-rolly-rolly-riiide-oh>

Safe and sound and home again, let the waters roar Jack

safe and sound and home again, let the waters roar Jack

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Since we sailed from plymouth sound, 4 years gone or neigh, Jack

were there ever chummies now, such as you and I Jack

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We had worked the selfsame guns, 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 rigging

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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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