Our Jack's Come Home Today

DESCRIPTION: Jack, (after many years at sea), is coming home (in some versions, "blind drunk"). Everyone rejoices at the sailor's return. His sweetheart, it is reported, "ne'er despaired, Though all hope within her died," but now the two will be married
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1883 (Mr. George Fairfield's and Miss Sadie Irwin's California's Emerald Jewels Songster)
KEYWORDS: sailor separation return reunion marriage
FOUND IN: US(MA)
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Doerflinger-SongsOfTheSailorAndLumberman, pp. 169-170, "Our Jack's Come Home Today" (1 text, 1 tune)
ADDITIONAL: (no author listed), _Mr. George Fairfield's and Miss Sadie Irwin's California's Emerald Jewels Songster_ (New York:) William J. A. Lieder, 1883 (available in the Robert Winslow Gordon Songster Collection at the Library of Congress web site), (no page number but it appears to be p. 19), "Our Jack's Come Home To-Day" (1 text)
Roud #1983
NOTES [16 words]: The songster version of this says it is "Sung by C. F. Stanley" but does not list an author. - RBW
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