Get Up Jack! John Sit Down
Get Up Jack, John Sit Down
Harrigan and Braham, 1885
Two verses and choruses:
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"Get Up Jack, John Sit Down" is performed by
the Jolly Rogers on their
2-CD set "Loose
Cannons / Midnight Buffet"

Notes: This song is one of the New York Tin Pan
Alley songs written by the prolific duo of Ed Harrigan and David Braham.
Musicologist, musician and historian, Mick Maloney, put out a CD in 2005
entitled "McNally's Row of Flats" which is a collection of Harrigan and
Braham's
Irish-American songs. The booklet includes a very interesting biography of
the
two.
Sheet
music
Ships may come and ships may go
As long as the sea does roll.
Each sailor lad just like his dad,
He loves the flowing bowl.
A trip ashore he does adore
With a girl that's plump and round.
Chorus:
When your money's all gone
It's the same old song,
"Get up Jack! John, sit down!"
Come along, come along,
You jolly brave boys,
There's lots of grog in the jar.
We'll plough the briny ocean
With the jolly roving tar.
Chorus
When Jack gets in, it's then he'll steer
For some old boarding house.
They'll welcome him with run and gin,
They'll feed him on pork scouse.
He'll lend and spend and not offend
Till he lies drunk on the ground
Chorus
He then will sail aboard some ship
For India or Japan
In Asia there, the ladies fair
All love the sailor man.
He'll go ashore and on a tear
He'll buy some girl a gown.
Chorus
When Jack gets old and weatherbeat,
Too old to roam about,
In some rum shop, they'll let him stop
Till eight bells calls him out.
He'll raise his eyes up to the skies,
Sayin' "Boys, we're homeward bound."
Chorus