The Traditional Ballad Index has an entry for "Jack Is Every Inch a Sailor," for the song recorded in 1928 by Frank Crumit.

This seems to be a different song, hence notes by Edith Fowke in The Canadian Encyclopedia and the note in the MacEdward Leach website, equating Crumit's recording with "Jack Was Evry Inch a Sailor," may be incorrect.

The version in Greenleaf and Mansfield is the same as the corrected DT lyrics above. It was sung by Patrick Lewis of Fleur de Lys in 1929. Lewis said it was one of his father's songs.