The Eddystone Light

1. Oh, my father was the keeper of the eddystone light

And he slept with a mermaid one fine night.

From this union there sprang three,

A porpoise and a porgy and the other was me.

R: Yo ho ho, the wind blows free, ho for the life on the rolling sea

2. One night when I was a-trimmin' of the glim

Singin' a verse from the evening hymn

A voice from the starboard shouted, "Ahoy!"

And there was my mother a-sittin' on the buoy

R:

3. "Oh what has become of my children three?"

Me mother then she asked of me

One was exhibited as a talking fish

The other was served in a chafing dish

R:

4. The phosporus flashed in her seaweed hair

I looked again, and my mother wasn't there

But her voice came an echoing back through the night:

"To hell with the keeper of the Eddystone light!"