Eddystone Light
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CHORUS:
Yo-ho-ho, the wind blows free,
All for the life on the rolling sea.
Me father was the keeper of the Eddystone Light,
He slept with a mermaid one fine night,
And from that union there came three,
A porpoise, and a porgy, and the third was me.
One night as I was trimmin' the glim,
And singing a verse from the evening hymn,
A voice from starboard shouted, "Ahoy!"
And there was me mother sittin' on a buoy,
Well, what became of me children three?"
Me mother then she asked of me.
Well, one was exhibited as a talking fish,
The other was served in a chafing dish.
The phosphorous flashed in her seaweed hair,
I looked again and me mother wasn't there,
But her voice came ringing out of the night,
"To the Devil with the keeper of the Eddystone Light!"