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Ships may come and ships may go as long as the sea does roll. [Chorus:]<\/p>\n Come along, come along, You jolly brave boys,<\/em><\/strong> When Jack comes in, it’s then he’ll steer to some old boarding house. [Chorus]<\/p>\n It\u2019s then he’ll sail aboard some ship for India or Japan. [Chorus]<\/p>\n When Jack gets tired and weatherbeat; too old to roam about, [Chorus]<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “Jolly Roving Tar” deals with the cyclical plight of the sailor, always wanted and welcome when his pockets jingle, but pushed aside when the funds have dwindled for the next sailor with his pay.\u00a0 The last verse is sometimes referred to as the sailor’s “end of life” poetic reference, and which man among us hasn’t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":21,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-338","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4870,"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/338\/revisions\/4870"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nEach sailor lad just like his dad, he loves the flowing bowl.
\nA trip on shore he does adore with a girl what\u2019s plump and round.
\nBut when the money’s gone it’s the same old song,
\n“Get up Jack! John, sit down!”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n
\n There’s lots of grog in the jar.<\/em><\/strong>
\n We’ll plough the briny ocean with<\/em><\/strong>
\n the jolly roving tar.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n
\nThey’ll welcome him with rum and gin; they feed him on pork scouse.
\nHe’ll lend, spend and not offend till he’s lyin’ drunk on the ground
\nFor when the money’s gone it’s the same old song,
\n“Get up Jack! John, sit down!”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n
\nIn Asia there the ladies fair all love the sailor man.
\nHe’ll go to shore out on a tear and he’ll buy some girl a gown.
\nBut when the money’s gone it’s the same old song,
\n“Get up Jack! John, sit down!”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n
\nThey’ll let him stop in some rum shop \u2018till eight bells calls him out.
\nThen he’ll raise his eyes up to the skies, Sayin’ “Boys, we’re homeward bound.”
\nFor when the money’s gone it’s the same old song,
\n“Get up Jack! John, sit down!”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n