Misc Traditional – Eddystone Light (Guitar)

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My father was the keeper of the Eddystone Light

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He slept with a mermaid one fine night

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From this union there came three

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A porpoise and a porgy, and the other was me.

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Yo, ho, ho and the wind blows free,

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Oh, for a life on the rolling sea.

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One night as I was a-trimmin' of the glim,

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A-singin' a verse of the evenin' hymn,

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A voice from the starboard shouted "Ahoy",

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And there was me mother a-sittin' on a buoy.

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Yo, ho, ho and the wind blows free,

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Oh, for a life on the rolling sea.

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Oh, what has become of my children three?

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My mother then she asked of me.

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One was exhibited as a talking fish,

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The other served up in a chafing dish.

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Yo, ho, ho and the wind blows free,

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Oh, for a life on the rolling sea.

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The phosporus flashed in her seaweed hair

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I looked again, and me mother wasn't there.

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A voice came echoin' out of the night,

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

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Yo, ho, ho and the wind blows free,

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Oh, for a life on the rolling sea.