 | Charles Dibdin - 1850 - 424 sider
...; And a many fine things that proved clearly to me That Providence takes us in tow : For, says lie, do you mind 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... | |
 | Richard Marks - 1850 - 188 sider
...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.... | |
 | Sir Richard Henry Bonnycastle, Sir James Edward Alexander - 1852 - 356 sider
...completely paralyze and annihilate the hopes of the Radical Revolutionists in Western Canada; for the real " sweet little cherub that sits up aloft to keep watch" for the life of the country is not only sound and cheap education, but the unlimited exercise of the privilege of elective... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 444 sider
...come down below ; And many fine things that proved clearly to me That providence takes us in tow : For says he, do you mind me, let storms e'er so oft,' Take the topsails 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... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 676 sider
...For says he, do you mind me, let storms e'er BO oft,1 Take tho topsails 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 argufies... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1857 - 334 sider
...come down below ; And a many fine things that proved clearly to me That Providence takes us in tow : For, says he, do you mind 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... | |
 | Thomas Boyles Murray - 1858 - 468 sider
...that came down below, And many fine things, that prov'd clearly to me That Providence takes us in tow. For, says he, do you mind 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... | |
 | 1860 - 360 sider
...by the gales of prosperity, guided by the compass of justice, and enter the port of victory. To the sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, to keep watch for the life of poor Jack. To the memory of the Father of his Country— Washington. The memory of those who fought and bled with... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1873 - 586 sider
...tow. For, says he, d'ye mind 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... | |
 | Frederick Lillywhite - 1860 - 146 sider
...replied Lockyer ; they have 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... | |
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There's a sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of poor Jack! 
