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Jack Was Every Inch A Sailor/The Sailor's Hornpipe lyrics
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Jack Was Every Inch A Sailor
JACK WAS EVERY INCH A SAILOR
Now, 'twas twenty-five or thirty years
Since Jack first saw the light;
He came into this world of woe
One dark and stormy night.
He was born on board his father's ship one day
As she was lying to,
'Bout twenty-five or thirty miles
Southeast of Bacalhao.
cho: Jack was every inch a sailor,
Five and twenty years a whaler,
Jack was every inch a sailor,
He was born upon the deep blue sea.
When Jack grew up to be a man,
He went to Labrador,
He fished in Indian Harbor
Where his father fished before.
On his returning in the fog,
He met a heavy gale,
And Jack was swept into the sea
And swallowed by a whale.
The whale went straight for Baffln's Bay
'Bout ninety knots an hour,
And ev'ry time he'd blow a spray,
He'd send it in a shower.
"Oh, now," says Jack unto himself,
"I must see what he's about."
He caught the whale all by the tail
And turned him inside out.
@sailor @animal @fish
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Jack Was Every Inch A Sailor
Part of these releases
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- Track 8 on House for Me
- 7 Hush Little Baby
- 9 There's A Hole In The Bottom Of The Sea
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