 | Half hours - 1847 - 580 str.
...me, let storms e'er so oft, Take the topsails of sailors aback, There 'sa sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of Poor Jack. I said to our Poll, for, d'ye see, she would cry, When last we weigh 'd anchor for sea, What argufies... | |
 | Richard Marks - 1850 - 188 str.
...well at last. I always thought that was a good song which says, " There's a sweet little cherub which sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of poor Jack." I suppose that is what you mean : but, Harry, who is that sweet little cherub that sits up aloft? Harry.... | |
 | Charles Dibdin - 1850 - 424 str.
...don't think me a milksop so soft To be taken for trifles aback ; For they say there's a Providence sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of poor Jack ! I heard our good chaplain palaver one day About souls, heaven, mercy, and such; And, my timbers !... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1857 - 334 str.
...me, let storms e'er so oft Take the top-sails of sailors aback, There's a sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of poor Jack ! I said to our Poll — for, d'ye see, she would cry — When last we weigh'd anchor for sea, What... | |
 | Thomas Boyles Murray - 1858 - 468 str.
...me, let storms e'er so oft Take the top-sails of sailors aback, There's a sweet little cherub that sits up aloft To keep watch for the life of poor Jack." The annexed engraving, from a drawing made expressly for this work from the originals, shows the bowl,... | |
 | 1860 - 360 str.
...prosperity, guided by the compass of justice, and enter the port of victory. To the sweet little cherub tha* sits up aloft, to keep watch for the life of poor Jack. To the memory of the Father of his Country — Wash ington. The memory of those who fought and bled... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1873 - 586 str.
...me, let storms e'er so oft Take the topsails o' sailors a-back, There's a sweet little cherub that sits up a-loft, To keep watch for the life of poor Jack." In the next verse Jack is worldly again. When Poll is " sniv'ling and piping her eye " at the idea... | |
 | James Alex Browne - 1860 - 120 str.
...from the broken floe and loose icebergs. But, in the words of Dibdin, " They say there's a Providence sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of Poor Jack." " The ark, which bore the hopes of a loving wife, and the prayers of so many friends, was not to be... | |
 | Frederick Lillywhite - 1860 - 146 str.
...again voted him to the chair. Then Carpenter struck up with — " There's a sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of poor Jack." which ditty was speedily followed by Grundy's performance of his celebrated " Dolly Dobbs," by which... | |
 | 1873 - 618 str.
...don't think me a milksop so soft To be taken for trifles a-back ; For they say there's a Providence sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of poor Jack !" In the second verse Jack has heard the chaplain palaver one day, " About souls, heaven, 'mercy,... | |
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There's a sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of poor Jack! 
