Misc Traditional – Dont Forget Your Old Shipmate (Guitar)

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G                  C      G
Safe and sound at home again

C        D      G
Let the waters roar, Jack

G                  C     G
Safe and sound at home again

C        D      G
Let the waters roar, Jack

G
Long we've tossed on the rolling main

C                D
Now we're safe ashore, Jack

G                  C       G
[tab]G                       D       G
Fal dee ral dee ral dee rye eye doe!

G                      C       G
Since we sailed from Plymouth Sound

C           D        G
Four years gone, or nigh, Jack

G                C       G
Was there ever chummies, now

C        D      G
Such as you and I, Jack?

G
Long we've tossed on the rolling main

C                 D
Now we're safe ashore, Jack

G                  C      G
Don't forget your old shipmate

G                        D       G
Fal dee ral dee ral dee rye eye doe!

G                   C        G
We have worked the self-same gun:

C       D      G
Quarterdeck division

G              C      G
Sponger I and loader you

C            D        G
Through the whole commission

G
Long we've tossed on the rolling main

C                D
Now we're safe ashore, Jack

G                  C      G
Don't forget your old shipmate

G                        D       G
Fal dee ral dee ral dee rye eye doe!

G                C      G
Oftentimes have we laid out

C         D      G
toil nor danger fearing,

G                 C       G
Tugging out the flapping sail

C        D      G
to the weather earing

G
Long we've tossed on the rolling main

C                D
Now we're safe ashore, Jack

G                  C      G
Don't forget your old shipmate

G                        D       G
Fal dee ral dee ral dee rye eye doe!

G                 C      G
When the middle watch was on

C        D         G
And the time went slow, boy

G                   C       G
Who could choose a rousing stave

C        D       G
Who like Jack or Joe, boy?

G
Long we've tossed on the rolling main

C                D
Now we're safe ashore, Jack

G                  C      G
Don't forget your old shipmate

G                        D       G
Fal dee ral dee ral dee rye eye doe!

G                    C     G
There she swings, an empty hulk

C      D      G
Not a soul below now

G              C        G
Number seven starboard mess

C        D       G
Misses Jack and Joe now

G
Long we've tossed on the rolling main

C                D
Now we're safe ashore, Jack

G                  C      G
Don't forget your old shipmate

G                        D       G
Fal dee ral dee ral dee rye eye doe!

G                 C           G
But the best of friends must part

C        D        G
Fair or foul the weather

G                 C      G
Hand yer flipper for a shake

C       D      G
Now a drink together

G
Long we've tossed on the rolling main

C                D
Now we're safe ashore, Jack

G                  C      G
Don't forget your old shipmate

G                        D       G
Fal dee ral dee ral dee rye eye doe!