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

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 your 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 your 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 earing

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

Don't forget your 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 your 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 your old shipmate

Faldee raldee raldee raldee rye-eye-doe!

But the best of friends must part, fair or foul the weather

Hand your 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

Faldee raldee raldee raldee rye-eye-doe!

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

Don't forget your old shipmate

Faldee raldee raldee raldee rye-eye-doe!