Tune Req: Keeper of the Light

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Keeper of the Light
From: DebC
Date: 16 Apr 02 - 05:35 PM

The song was written by David Littlefield, one of the Mystic Seaport Chanteymen. He is also a member of Forebitter, the group based at the Seaport.

Deb

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Keeper of the Light
From: MMario
Date: 16 Apr 02 - 12:20 PM

refresh

Subject: Keeper of the Light
From: MMario
Date: 15 Apr 02 - 02:17 PM

looking for the tune.

Don't know the composer/author. the chorus is as fdar as I can tell -

I am the Keeper of the light,
(my) Father died a year ago
He stood the watch for twenty years
then passed the line for me to toe [hold?]