Jack Tar

from First Figure by Ed Yother

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lyrics

So come all you ladies gay who delights is sailor’s joy
Listen while I sing to you a song
When Jack Tar he comes ashore with his gold and silver store
There’s no one can get rid of it so soon

The first thing Jack requires is a fiddler to his hand
Likewise the best liquor of every kind
And a pretty girl likewise with two dark and rolling eyes
And Jacky he is suited to his mind

The landlady she comes in dressed all in her Sunday best
She looks like some bright and morning star
She’s ready to wait on him when she finds he’s plenty of tin
Chalk him down to the one behind the bar

His wages were soon gone and his friends they are all flown
And the flash girls, they departed for another
And the landlady, she cried pay your score and get outside
Your cargo’s gone and you’ve hit stormy weather

Now Jack all in his rage he threw bottles at her head
And likewise all the glasses he let fly
And the poor girl in her fright called the watchman of the night
Saying take this young sailor lad away

Now Jack did understand that a ship lay wanting hands
And to her he went straight down
With a sweet and pleasant gale he unfurled his lofty sail
And bid adieu to the flash girls of the town

So he laid her on a tack like a cutter or smack
As she rolled from the lee to the weather
And he kept a full on eye close to the wind as she would lie
We were bound for black wall and stormy weather

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from First Figure, released June 11, 2023
Guitar - Ed Yother
Vocals - Ed Yother

Traditional, arranged by Ed Yother

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Mostly Irish traditional music from West Lafayette, Indiana.

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