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Jack Was Every Inch a Sailor 
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 one day As she was lying to, 'Bout twenty-five or thirty miles Southeast of Bacalhao. 
cho: Jack was every inch a sailor, Five and twenty years a whaler, Jack was every inch a sailor, He was born upon the deep 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 Baffln's 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.