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The Bilge Pumps - Songs of the Sea: Lyrics to Jolly Roving Tar

Songs Lyrics
A-F G-O P-Z Christmas
Jolly Roving Tar
(Traditional)

Ships may come and ships may go as long as the sea does roll
Each sailor lad, just like his dad, he loves the flowing bowl
A trip on shore he does adore with a girl who's nice and round
When the money's gone, it's the same old song, "Get up Jack! John, sit down!"

(Chorus)
Come along, come along, you jolly brave boys, there's lots of grog in the jar
We'll plough the briny ocean with a jolly roving tar

When Jack comes in, it's then he'll steer to some old boarding house.
They'll welcome him with rum and gin and feed him on pork scouse
He'll lend and spend and not offend 'til he lies drunk on the ground
When the money's gone, it's the same old song, "Get up Jack! John, sit down!"

(Chorus)

Jack, he then, oh then he'll sail for India or Japan
In Asia there, the ladies fair all love the sailor man
He'll go to shore out on a tear and buy some girl a gown
When the money's gone, it's the same old song, "Get up Jack! John, sit down!"

(Chorus)

When Jack gets old and weather-beat, too old to roam about
They'll let him stop in some rum shop 'til the eight bells calls him out
Then he'll raise his eyes up to the skies, sayin', "Boys, we're homeward bound"
But when the money's gone, it's the same old song, "Get up Jack! John, sit down!"

(Chorus x2)

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