Jack Was Every Inch a Sailor
(source: "Songs for Canadian Girl Guides", Girl Guides of Canada, 1981.)

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 as she was lying to,

'Bout twenty-five or thirty miles south-east of Bacaloo.

Chorus:

Jack was ev'ry inch a sailor,

Five and twenty years a whaler.

Jack was ev'ry inch a sailor;

He was born upon the bright blue sea.

When Jack grew up to be a man, he went to Labrador.

He fished in Indian harbour 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 Baffin'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.