Annotation:Jack at the Windlass
X:581 T:Jack at the Windlass. Roose.0581 B:John Roose MS, Manchester 1850 M:6/8 L:1/8 Q:3/8=90 Z:Village Music Poject, Peter Kanssen, 2019 K:Bb "_Sym"F | D>ED DBD | F2D DDD | EG,E GEE | D2D DBc | dBd GFG | AFf fe/g/f/e/ | dBe cAF | {c}B3-B2.|\ %barline as MS "_So"F | B>cB BdB | A3 F2F/F/ | GEG BGE | F3-F2 F |B>cB B2d/B/ | AF2 z2F | GED ECA | B3-B2 B/c/ | dBd fdB |cAz zBc | dBd fdB | c3-c2 c | dBA cAF | FEz z2B | AcB AGF | F3-F2f/e/ |dBd ecB | AGF zBA | BFG AGF | {A}G3- G2e/d/ | ede GcB | AFf f2 f/e/ |dBe cAF | B3-!fermata!B2 "_Sym"d/e/ | fdb fcB | AFf f3/g/f/e/ | dBe cAF | {c}B3-B2|]
JACK AT THE WINDLASS. English, Song Air (6/8 time). B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. "Jack at the Windlass" is one of many songs [Roud V3363] written and composed by dramatist and writer wikipedia:Charles Dibdin (1745-1814), famous for his patriotic sea-songs. The song was issues on ballad sheets in the early decades of the 19th and anthologized later, but Dibdin had penned it in 1792 for The Quizzes where it was Song 20. It was also one of the songs in Dibdin's "table entertainment" called the Melange, performed at the Sans Pareil, Strand, London, in 1808. The first stanza gives the flavor of his work:
Come, all hands ahoy to the anchor,
From our friends and relations to go;
Poll blubbers and cries, devil thank her!
She'll soon take another in tow.
This breeze, like the old man, will kick us,
About on the boisterous main;
And one day, if death should not trick us,
Perhaps we may come back again.
With a will-ho, then pull away jolly boys,
At the mercy of fortune we go;
We're in for't, then dam-me, what folly, boys
For to be down-hearted, yo ho!
