(Falling from a scaffold drunk).

On my forehead see depicted

Valour's honourable scar

('T was with a pint pot inflicted).

Pity a Whitechapel Tar!

Glazed my hat and blue my jacket,

White my trowsers, loose my tie;

Seaman's costume, when I lack it,

Down at Houndsditch I can buy.

Naval talk I've learnt in places