Don't Forget Your Old Shipmates

"Don't Forget Your Old Shipmates" is a naval traditional song that was sung by sailors in the Napoleonic Era. It is sung in the Wardroom scene in Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World. It is still sung aboard some surface combatant ships of the British Royal Navy.

Lyrics

 * '' 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?


 * ''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!


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


 * ''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!


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


 * ''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!