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.
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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."
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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!"