Get Up Jack Lyrics

Ships will come and ships will go as long as the tides do rise

Each sailing lad, just like his dad will be captured by pretty eyes

Some gal ashore, he will adore. She'll like him too no doubt

But when the money is gone, it's the same old song

Get up, Jack, John sail on

Come along, come along, my jolly brave tar

There's lots of grog in the jar

Come sail the rolling ocean and most the seven seas

With our jolly roving tars

Jack's on shore and he beats his way to some boarding house

He's welcomed him in with rum and gin, likewise with port and souse

He'll spend and spend and never offends till he lies drunk on the floor

But when the money is gone, it's the same old song

Wake up, Jack, John sail on

Come along, come along, my jolly brave tar

There's lots of grog in the jar

Come sail the rolling ocean and most the seven seas

With our jolly roving tars

Come sail the rolling ocean and most the seven seas

With our jolly roving tars

Jack is old and weather beaten, too old to gad about

In some spirits shop, they'll let him stop but at 8 bells he's tossed out

He'll cry and sigh up to the skies, Good Lord, I'm homeward bound

But when the money is gone, it's the same old song

Get up, Jack, John

Sail on

Come along, come along, my jolly brave tar

There's lots of grog in the jar

Come sail the rolling ocean and most the seven seas

With our jolly roving tars

Come sail the briny ocean and most the seven seas

With our jolly roving tars