Jack Hinks Lyrics - Turn - Great Big Sea

Ah, when Jack comes ashore he's got money galore 

And he's seldom cut short of a job 

He can dress now as well as any can tell 

With a good silver watch in his fob 

Poor Jack in his life was never paired with a wife 

Though sometimes with lasses he links 

He's a seafaring sail mate can gambol a caper 

Grog drinking hero, Jack Hinks, oh, Jack Hinks 

When inclined for to spend he walks with a friend 

And with pleasure he sits himself down 

He tips off his glass and he winks at the lass 

And he smiles if she happens to frown 

And like a ramblin' true blue 

When the rent becomes due 

On the table the money he clinks 

He's a seafaring sail mate can gambol a caper 

Grog drinking hero, Jack Hinks 

Round home the other fall we fell into a squall 

Now the northernmost head of Cape Freels 

We were washed away without further delay 

At the thought how my spirit it chills 

We were bashed on the rocks like a hard hunted fox 

Of death and destruction he thinks 

He's a seafaring sail mate can gambol a caper 

Grog drinking hero, Jack Hinks, oh, Jack Hinks 

Jack without fail was out in that same gale 

Having drove across Bonavist Bay 

Oh Neptune did sail as he handed all sail 

And he had his two spars cut away 

Oh, but Providence kind so eases the wind 

And on sailors so constantly thinks 

He saved that seafaring sail mate 

Can gambol a caper 

That seafaring sail mate 

Can gambol a caper 

That seafaring sail mate 

Can gambol a caper 

Grog drinking hero, Jack Hinks