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Thread #96587   Message #1890451
Posted By: Joe Offer
21-Nov-06 - 10:46 PM
Thread Name: DTStudy: Get Up, Jack! John, Sit Down!
Subject: ADD Version: Get Up, Jack! John, Sit Down!
The version in The Folk Songs of North America (Alan Lomax, 1960) [song #33,with tune], appears to be a combination of the previous Lomax and Warner versions:

Get Up, Jack

Ships may come and ships may go, as long as the sea does roll,
Each sailor lad, likewise his dad, he loves that flowing bowl.
A lass ashore he does adore, one that is plump and round,
But when his money is gone, it's the same old song.
Get up, Jack! John, sit down!'

CHORUS:
Come along, come along, my jolly brave tars,
There's lots of grog in the jar,
We'll plough the briny ocean
With those jolly roving tars.

When Jack's ashore, he beats his way to some boarding-house,
He's welcomed in with rum and girl, likewise with port and souse,
He'll spend and spend and never offend, till he lies drunk on the ground,
But when his money is gone, it's the same old song—
Get up, Jack! John, sit down!'
CHORUS

Now when Jack is old and weather-beat, too old to knock about,
In some grogshop they'll let him stop, till eight bells he's turned out.
Then he cries and he sighs right up to the skies: 'Good Lord, I'm homeward bound,'
For when your money is gone, it's the same old song—
Get up, Jack! John, sit down!'
CHORUS


The tune appears to be very similar to the one in Warner.