Let the waters roar Jack!
Safe and
Let the waters roar Jack!
>
Now we're safe ashore Jack!
Folly-Rolly-Rolly-Rolly-Rye-ooo!
>
Quarterdeck division,
Sponger I
Through the whole commission,
>
Now we're safe ashore Jack!
Folly-Rolly-Rolly-Rolly-Rye-ooo!

> That is a great scene in a great film. I believe these are the
> "authentic" lyrics to Don't Forget Your Old Shipmates:

> 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?

> We have worked the self-same gun, quarterdeck division.
Sponger I and
> loader you, through the whole commission.

> Oftentimes have we laid out, toil nor danger fearing,
Tugging out the
> flapping sail to the weather earring.

> When the middle watch was on and the time went slow, boy,
Who could
> choose a rousing stave, who like Jack or Joe, boy?

> There she swings, an empty hulk, not a soul below now.
Number seven
> starboard mess misses Jack and Joe now.

> But the best of friends must part, fair or foul the weather.
Hand yer
> flipper for a shake, now a drink together.