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 yer old shipmate

Faldee raldee raldee raldee rye-eye-doe

Since we sailed from Plymouth 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 yer old shipmate

Faldee raldee raldee raldee rye-eye-doe

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 yer old shipmate

Faldee raldee raldee raldee rye-eye-doe

Oftentimes have we laid out

Toil nor danger fearing

Tugging out the flapping sail to the weather earring

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

When the middle watch was on

And the time went slow, boy

Who could choose a rousing stave

Who like Jack or Joe, boy?

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

There she swings, an empty hulk

Not a soul below now

Number seven starboard mess misses Jack and Joe now

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!

But the best of friends must part

Fair or foul the weather

Hand yer 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 yer old shipmate

Faldee raldee raldee raldee rye-eye-doe

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