Don’t Forget Your Old Shipmates

[Pre-Chorus]
Safe and sound at home again, let the waters roar, Jack
Safe and sound at home again, let the waters roar, Jack

[Chorus]
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-oh

[Verse 1]
Since we sailed from Plymouth Sound, four years gone, or nigh, Jack
Was there ever chummies, now, such as you and I, Jack

[Chorus]
Long we’ve tossed on the rolling main, now we’re safe ashore, Jack
Don’t forget your old shipmatе, faldee raldee raldee raldee rye-eye-oh

[Verse 2]
Wе have worked the self-same gun, quarterdeck division
Sponger I and loader you, through the whole commission

[Chorus]
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-oh

[Verse 3]
Often have we laid out, toil nor danger fearing
Tugging out the flapping sail to the weather earring

[Chorus]
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-oh

[Verse 4]
When the middle watch was on, and the time went slow, boy
Who could choose a rousing stave, who like Jack or Joe, boy

[Chorus]
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-oh

[Verse 5]
There she swings, an empty hulk, not a soul below now
Number seven starboard mess misses Jack and Joe now

[Chorus]
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-oh

[Verse 6]
But the best of friends must part, fair or foul the weather
Hand yer flipper for a shake, now a drink together

[Chorus]
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-oh
Faldee raldee raldee raldee rye-eye-oh
Faldee raldee raldee raldee rye-eye-oh