THE EDDYSTONE LIGHT is in the Digitrad, but I have heard it sung, brilliantly, with the words modernised as below:



My father was the keeper of the Eddystone light
And he slept with a mermaid one fine night
From this union there came children three
A porpoise and a haddock, and the other was me!

CHORUS
Yo ho ho, the wind blows free,
Oh for the life on the rolling sea!

As I was trimming the lamp one night
I saw a silver gleam in in the pale moonlight
A voice on the starboard shouted "Ahoy!"
And there was my mother, a-sitting on a buoy.

Ch

My mother then she asked of me,
"Oh, where are the rest of my children three ?"
"Well, one's in the Circus as a talking fish
The other was served with peas and chips."

Ch

Then the phosphorous flashed in her seaweed hair.
I looked again, and my mother wasn't there
But her voice came echoing back from the night
"Bo**ocks to the keeper of the Eddystone Light!"

Ch (twice)