...me, let storms e'er so oft, Take the topsails of sailors aback, There 'sa sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of Poor Jack. I said to our Poll, for, d'ye see, she would cry, When last we weigh 'd anchor for sea, What argufies...

...don't think me a milksop so soft To be taken for trifles aback ; For they say there's a Providence sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of poor Jack ! I heard our good chaplain palaver one day About souls, heaven, mercy, and such; And, my timbers !...

...well at last. I always thought that was a good song which says, " There's a sweet little cherub which sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of poor Jack." I suppose that is what you mean : but, Harry, who is that sweet little cherub that sits up aloft? Harry....

...me, let storms e'er so oft Take the top-sails of sailors aback, There's a sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of poor Jack ! I said to our Poll — for, d'ye see, she would cry — When last we weigh'd anchor for sea, What...

...me, let storms e'er so oft Take the top-sails of sailors aback, There's a sweet little cherub that sits up aloft To keep watch for the life of poor Jack." The annexed engraving, from a drawing made expressly for this work from the originals, shows the bowl,...

...again voted him to the chair. Then Carpenter struck up with — " There's a sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of poor Jack." which ditty was speedily followed by Grundy's performance of his celebrated " Dolly Dobbs," by which...

...prosperity, guided by the compass of justice, and enter the port of victory. To the sweet little cherub tha* sits up aloft, to keep watch for the life of poor Jack. To the memory of the Father of his Country — Wash ington. The memory of those who fought and bled...

...me, let storms e'er so oft Take the topsails o' sailors a-back, There's a sweet little cherub that sits up a-loft, To keep watch for the life of poor Jack." In the next verse Jack is worldly again. When Poll is " sniv'ling and piping her eye " at the idea...

...from the broken floe and loose icebergs. But, in the words of Dibdin, " They say there's a Providence sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of Poor Jack." " The ark, which bore the hopes of a loving wife, and the prayers of so many friends, was not to be...

...don't think me a milksop so soft To be taken for trifles a-back ; For they say there's a Providence sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of poor Jack !" In the second verse Jack has heard the chaplain palaver one day, " About souls, heaven, 'mercy,...