"Jack Was Every Inch a Sailor"

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Jack Was Every Inch a Sailor

  Now, 'twas twenty-five or thirty years since Jack first saw the light;
  He came into this world of woe one dark and stormy night.
  He was born on board his father's ship as she was lying to,
  'Bout twenty-five or thirty miles southeast of Baccalieu.

  cho: Jack was every inch a sailor,
  Five and twenty years a whaler,
  Jack was every inch a sailor,
  He was born upon the bright blue sea.

  When Jack grew up to be a man, he went to Labrador.
  He fished in Indian Harbor where his father fished before.
  On his returning in the fog, he met a heavy gale.
  And Jack was swept into the sea and swallowed by a whale.

  The whale went straight for Baffin Bay, 'bout ninety knots an hour.
  And ev'ry time he'd blow a spray, he'd send it in a shower.
  "Oh, now," says Jack unto himself, "I must see what he's about."
  He caught the whale all by the tail and turned him inside out.