| Title | Song 53 (t), or Sailor's Consolation, The (at) |
| Short Title | American MM, 1798 |
| Page | 137-139 |
| Genre | AI |
| Country | A |
| Instruments | VO |
| Incipit | //131/425//316-/27-5-//1 |
| Alternate Title | Sailor's Consolation, The (at). Song 53 (t), or |
| First Line | Spanking Jack was so comely, so pleasant, so jolly (fl) |
| Burden Text | But grieving's a folly, come let us be jolly (bt) |
| Verses | 4 |
| Stress Notes | 14321 |
| Intervals | 3,-3,4,-3,4,-3,-3,-3,4,-3,-3,4, |
| Key Signature | FU#,C# |
| Time Signature | C |
| Do | D |
| Date | 1798 |
| Number | M9.53 |