Yes, "The Eddystone Light" is in the digitrad. It's under "Eddystone light"
If you click on that from the index, you'l get, "The man at the Nore" then "The keeper of the London Zoo" and then, "The Eddystone Light. All three have the same melody. It's a classic and the favorite song of Capt. Herb Spinney, of Jamestown, Rhode Island. Herby spent most of his life at sea. He was in his seventies and a commercial fishing captain when he was lost at sea to a "White Squall" In 1939 he was Boatswain of "Lawhill", one of the huge square riggers in "The Last grain race". The man was a legend among the George's Banks commercial fishermen. He was tied up next to a U.S. Coast guard ship, down below in the engine room with two coast guardsmen working on his stalled engine when the squall hit. His vessel capsized. The two coasties got out, Herby didn't. He had a deep melodic voice, and, his war cry was, "Nobody sings anymore, God dammit".
Herb Spinney was one of the closest friends I've ever had, and, my wife and I miss him terribly.
Everytime I hear "The Eddystone Light" I think of Herby. One can always tell when hearing the song sung, if they learned it from Capt Spinney, because, he sang the third vers, "And what has become of my children three, My mother then accosted me"

Commercial fishing is the most dangerous job there is. In the "National Fisherman" a weekly newspaper devoted to the industry, under "Coast Guard News" there is ALWAYS a list of names, "Lost at Sea". It's so commonplace that it usually only rates one or two paragraphs on page three of the daily newspapers.

There I go with another long winded story that has very little to do with the subject at hand. My wife, Donna, just called me "King Nebuchudnezer" again, because I do "Babble on". So, I'll close, for now.

Jody Gibson