Excellent new song, called, Wonderful admiration!/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.