Annotation:Poor Jack (1)

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POOR JACK. English, Air (2/4 time). B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "Poor Jack" is a song by the prolific wikipedia:Charles_Dibdin (1745–1814), the best-known English songwriter of his day--especially of sea songs, popularly said to have recruited more men to the Navy than the press-gang. "Poor Jack" was his most successful song to that date, later supplanted by "Tom Bowling." The first two stanza go:

Go patter to lubbers and swabs, do you see,
'Bout danger, and fear, and the like;
A tight-water boat and good sea-room give me,
And it ain’t to a little I’ll strike.
Though the tempest topgallant-mast smack smooth should smite
And shiver each splinter of wood,
Clear the deck, stow the yards, and house everything tight,
And under reef foresail we’ll scud:
Avast! nor don’t think me a milksop so soft,
To be taken for trifles aback;v For they say there’s a Providence sits up aloft,
To keep watch for the life of poor Jack!

I heard our good chaplain palaver one day
About souls, heaven, mercy, and such;
And, my timbers! what lingo he’d coil and belay;
Why, ’twas just all as one as High Dutch;
For he said how a sparrow can’t founder, d’ye see,
Without orders that come down below;
And a many fine things that proved clearly to me oft
That Providence takes us in tow:
For, says he, do you mind me, let storms ne’er so oft
Take the topsails of sailors aback,
There’s a sweet little cherub that sits up aloft,
To keep watch for the life of poor Jack!

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