The Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music has 3 different editions of the sheet music. These are all the "sea" version. I suspect this is the original and the "jail" version is a parody of this one.

Box 182, Item 136
OUR JACK'S COME HOME TO-DAY. New Sea Song. Fourth Edition.
Written & Composed by W.J. Devers.
London : Reid Bros., 189 Oxford Street
No date.

Box 097, Item 277
The Bromo-Seltzer Collection of 54 Popular Songs. Complete and Unabridged. Full Music Size With Piano & Organ Accompaniment. OUR JACK'S COME HOME TO-DAY.
W.J. Devers.
Baltimore : Emerson Drug Co.
No date.

Box 176, Item 007
OUR JACK'S COME HOME TO DAY. Song.
Written and Composed by W.J. Devers.
No publisher
No date

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