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The song was written by Richard Creagh Saunders (1809-1886), who enlisted in the navy as a Schoolmaster on the 11th of July, 1839<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hardtackers.com/JerryBryantPaper.html |title="Long we've toiled on the rolling wave": One sea song's journey from the gun deck to Hollywood |author=Bryant, Jerry |date=June 11, 2010 |access-date=February 22, 2016 |work=Music of the Sea Symposium}}</ref>. It was recorded in [[Charles Harding Firth|Charles Harding Firth's]] ''Naval 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 [[closed couplet|couplets]].<ref>Firth, Charles Harding, ''Naval Songs and Ballads'' Vol. XXXII, "Don't Forget Your Old Shipmate" ([[Navy Records Society]]: 1908), pp. 337-8 [https://books.google.com/books?id=dQIMAAAAMAAJ&q=Don%27t+Forget+Your+Old+Shipmate#v=snippet&q=Don%27t%20Forget%20Your%20Old%20Shipmate&f=false]</ref> |
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Revision as of 05:12, 1 November 2022
"Don't Forget Your Old Shipmate" is a naval traditional song that was sung by British Royal Navy sailors in the Napoleonic Era.
Versions
First version
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's Naval 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.
Popular Master and Commander version
The version sung in the film was arranged in 1978 by Jim Mageean[3] from his album 'Of Ships... and Men.'[4] The song is sung in the wardroom scene of Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, and is still sung aboard surface combatant ships of the Royal Navy.
- 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 earing.
- 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!
References
- ^ 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.