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Jolly Roving Tar is a traditional Newfoundland folk song. In its 19th-century version, the song relates the story of Susan, lamenting the wanderings of her beloved "tar", or sailor, William, who is at sea, and deciding to follow him in her father's boat. The title is also applied to the folk song* "Get up, Jack! John, sit down!", a reel of unknown provenance in which some, but not all, versions includes the line, "Come along, come along, my jolly brave tars, there's lots of grog in the jars."[1]
- There is a song called "Get-Up Jack, John Sit-Down" with words by Edward Harrigan (1844 - 1911) and music by Dave Braham (1838 - 1905). It is from their music hall show "Old Lavender," produced in circa 1885. A digital image of the score is available on the Library of Congress Website.
- ^ The line is included in 1992's Songs of the sea, rivers, lakes & canals, but not in 1994's American Ballads and Folk Songs, which reproduces a Welsh rendition from 1896. Silverman, Jerry (1992). Songs of the sea, rivers, lakes & canals. Mel Bay Publications. pp. 36–37. ISBN 1-56222-283-X.; Lomax, Alan; George Lyman Kittredge (1994). American Ballads and Folk Songs. Courier Dover Publications. p. 493. ISBN 0-486-28276-7.