Another classic sea shanty. Unknown composer/unknown year. Sung by the navy in times long passed. A somewhat personalised adaptation of Fisherman's Friends version, but with a lot more jig

Safe and sound at home again
  Let the waters roar, Jack
Safe and sound at home again
  Let the waters roar, Jack

Long we've tossed on the rolling main
Now we're safe ashore, Jack
Don't forget your old shipmate
All the way from cal-ay-oh

When we sailed from Plymouth Sound
  Four years gone, or nigh, Jack
Were there ever chummies, now
  Such as you and I, Jack?

Long we've tossed on the rolling main
Now we're safe ashore, Jack
Don't forget your old shipmate
All the way from cal-ay-oh

We have worked the self-same gun:
  Quarterdeck division
Sponger you and loader I
  Through the whole commission

Long we've tossed on the rolling main
Now we're safe ashore, Jack
Don't forget your old shipmate
All the way from cal-ay-oh

Oftentimes have we laid out
  toil nor danger fearing,
Tugging out the flapping sail
  to the weather bearing

Long we've tossed on the rolling main
Now we're safe ashore, Jack
Don't forget your old shipmate
All the way from cal-ay-oh

When the middle watch was on
  And the time went slow, boy
Who could choose a rousing stave
  Who like Jack or Joe, boy?

Long we've tossed on the rolling main
Now we're safe ashore, Jack
Don't forget your old shipmate
All the way from cal-ay-oh

There she swings, an empty hulk
  Not a soul below now
Number seven starboard mess
  Misses Jack and Joe now

Long we've tossed on the rolling main
Now we're safe ashore, Jack
Don't forget your old shipmate
All the way from cal-ay-oh

But the best of friends must part
  Fair or foul the weather
Hand yer flipper for a shake
  Now a drink together

Long we've tossed on the rolling main
Now we're safe ashore, Jack
Don't forget your old shipmate
All the way from cal-ay-oh

Long we've tossed on the rolling main
Now we're safe ashore, Jack
Don't forget your old shipmate
All the way from cal-ay-oh

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