Eddystone Light

                       

My father was the keeper of the Eddystone Light

He courted a mermaid one fine night

From this union there came three

A porpoise and a porgy and the other was me

          Yo ho ho, the wind blows free

          Oh, for the life on the rolling sea
 

One night, while I was trimming of the glim
Singing a verse from the evening hymn
A voice from the starboard shouted, "Ahoy"
And there was me mother, a-sitting on the buoy

 

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Tell me what’s become of my children of three ?
My mother then she asked of me
One was exhibited as a talking fish
And the other was served on a chafing dish

 

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Then the phosphorous flashed in her seaweed hair
I looked again me mother wasn't there
Her voice came echoing out of the night
"To the devil with the keeper of the Eddystone Light!"

 

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