The song was written by Richard Creagh Saunders (1809-1886), who enlisted in the navy as a Schoolmaster on the 11th of July, 1839.[1] It was recorded in Charles Harding Firth'sNaval Songs and Ballads (1908) in a slightly different form from the one popularized in cinema, where its opening verse has been omitted, and with quatrain stanzas instead of couplets.[2]
The first version opens with the following quatrain:
We're the boys that fear no noise,
Whilst the thundering cannons roar,
And long we've toiled on the rolling wave,
And now we're safe on shore.
Folderol, etc.
The rest of the song as presented by Firth does not differ substantially from the popular version presented below, but a few lines are inverted or have slight alterations to word order.
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!
When the middle watch was on, and the time went slow, boy,
Who could choose a rousing stave, who like Jack or Joe, boy?
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!
There she swings, an empty hulk, not a soul below now.
Number seven starboard mess misses Jack and Joe now.
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!
But the best of friends must part, fair or foul the weather.
Hand yer flipper for a shake, now a drink together.
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!
Referencesedit
^Bryant, Jerry (June 11, 2010). ""Long we've toiled on the rolling wave": One sea song's journey from the gun deck to Hollywood". Music of the Sea Symposium. Retrieved February 22, 2016.
^Firth, Charles Harding, Naval Songs and Ballads Vol. XXXII, "Don't Forget Your Old Shipmate" (Navy Records Society: 1908), pp. 337-8 [1]
^Bryant, Jerry (June 11, 2010). ""Long we've toiled on the rolling wave": One sea song's journey from the gun deck to Hollywood". Music of the Sea Symposium. Retrieved February 22, 2016.
^"Jim Mageean – Of Ships...And Men". Discogs. 1978. Retrieved February 22, 2016.
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