Lyric The Eddystone Light

Oh, me father was the keeper of the eddystone light
And he slept with a mermaid one fine night
From this union there came three
A porpoise and a porgy and the other was me

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

One day as I was a-trimmin the glim
Humming a tune from the evening hymn
A voice from the starboard shouted, "Ahoy!"
And there was me mother a-sittin on the buoy

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"Oh what has become of me children three?"
Me mother then she asked of me
One was exhibited as a talking fish
The other was served in a chafing dish

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Then the phosporus flashed in her seaweed hair
I looked again, but me mother wasn t there
But I heard her voice echoing back through the night:
"The devil take the keeper of the Eddystone light!"

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Oh the moral of the story you ll learn when you find
To leave God s creatures for what nature had in mind
For fishes are for cookin , mermaids are for tales
Seaweed is for sushi and protecting is for whales

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