Excellent new song, called, Wonderful admiration!/Remember Jack

Remember Jack.

WHEN scarce a handspike high,
⁠Death with old dad made free;
So what does I do d'ye think,
⁠But pikes it off to sea,
Says I to sweetheart Poll,
⁠If ever I come back,
We'll laugh and sing tol de rol lol,
⁠If not, remember Jack.

I'd fortune smooth and rough,
⁠The wind would chop and vere;
Till hard knocks I'd nabb'd enough
⁠On board a privateer.
Propp'd with a wooden peg,
⁠Poll I thought would bid me pack;
So I was forc'd dy'e see, to beg,
⁠And 'twas-Pray remember Jack.

I ax'd, as folks hove by,
⁠And shew'd my wooden pin;
Young girls would sometimes sigh,
⁠And gaping lubbers grin.
In vain I'd often bawl,
⁠My hopes were ta'en aback,
And my share of copper small;
⁠So pray remember Jack.

One day, my lockers bare,
⁠And tugs all tatter'd grown,
I twigg'd a pinnace fair,
⁠Well rigg'd a bearing down.
'Twas Poll-she look'd so spruce:
⁠"What thus;" says she, "come back!"
My tongue forgot its use,
⁠And pray remember Jack.

What matters much to prate,
⁠She'd shiners sav'd a few;
Soon I became her mate:
⁠Wa'nt, Poll a sweetheart true?
Then a friend I sarv'd before,
⁠From a long voyage trips back:
Shar'd I with his gold galore,
⁠For he well remember'd Jack

So what though I lost my leg,
⁠It seem'd to fortune mend;
And though forc'd dy'e see, to beg,
⁠I gain'd a wife and friend.
Here's the king, Old England, Poll,
⁠My shipmate just come back,
Then laugh and sing tol de rol lol,
⁠And pray remember Jack.