Don't Forget Your Old Shipmates
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Don't Forget Your Old Shipmates is a Naval song sung by sailors in the Napoleonic Era. It is best known for the officer's mess song in Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World.
[edit] Lyrics
- Safe and sound at home again, let the waters roar, Jack.
- Safe and sound at home again, let the waters roar, Jack.
- Chorus
- Long we've tossed on the rolling main, now we're safe ashore, Jack.
- Don't forget yer old shipmate, faldee raldee raldee raldee rye-eye-doe!
- Since we sailed from Plymouth Sound, four years gone, or nigh, Jack.
- Was there ever chummies, now, such as you and I, Jack?
- Long we've tossed on the rolling main, now we're safe ashore, Jack.
- Don't forget yer old shipmate, faldee raldee raldee raldee rye-eye-doe!
- We have worked the self-same gun, quarterdeck division.
- Sponger I and loader you, through the whole commission.
- Long we've tossed on the rolling main, now we're safe ashore, Jack.
- Don't forget yer old shipmate, faldee raldee raldee raldee rye-eye-doe!
- Oftentimes have we laid out, toil nor danger fearing,
- Tugging out the flapping sail to the weather earring.
- Long we've tossed on the rolling main, now we're safe ashore, Jack.
- Don't forget yer old shipmate, faldee raldee raldee raldee rye-eye-doe!
- When the middle watch was on and the time went slow, boy,
- Who could choose a rousing stave, who like Jack or Joe, boy?
- Long we've tossed on the rolling main, now we're safe ashore, Jack.
- Don't forget yer old shipmate, faldee raldee raldee raldee rye-eye-doe!
- There she swings, an empty hulk, not a soul below now.
- Number seven starboard mess misses Jack and Joe now.
- Long we've tossed on the rolling main, now we're safe ashore, Jack.
- Don't forget yer old shipmate, faldee raldee raldee raldee rye-eye-doe!
- But the best of friends must part, fair or foul the weather.
- Hand yer flipper for a shake, now a drink together.
- Long we've tossed on the rolling main, now we're safe ashore, Jack.
- Don't forget yer old shipmate, faldee raldee raldee raldee rye-eye-doe!
[edit] Arrangements
A arrangement of the piece for a 4-part men's choir was arranged for the University of Pennsylvania Glee Club's spring 2005 show, and was performed on their tour of South America that May.
