The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #96587 Message #4068081
Posted By: Steve Gardham
12-Aug-20 - 02:17 AM
Thread Name: DTStudy: Get Up, Jack! John, Sit Down!
Subject: RE: DTStudy: Get Up, Jack! John, Sit Down!
I don't know whether you have the origins of 'Outward Bound' anywhere, but just for the sake of completeness it was a theatre song written by William Upton some time before 1794.
Guessing here but the expression 'Get up Jack, let John sit down' was probably an old expression even before Upton's time.