EDDYSTONE LIGHT

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Song Title
EDDYSTONE LIGHT
Writers
Foley, Flick, Kirkland, Paine
Publisher
DEVON MUSIC, INC. (BMI)
% Publisher Controls
100%
Territory Controlled
WORLD
Themes/Keywords
1950's, Children, Father, Light, Lighthouse, Mermaid, Mother, Ocean, Sail, Sea, Story
Lyrics
Yo ho, here’s a tale
That’s near and dear
To the hearts of those that sail,
‘Bout the lighthouse keeper and his mermaid wife
Who joined together for a diff’rent life.
Yo ho, no winds and waters fill this tale.

My father was the keeper of the Eddystone Light,
He married a mermaid one fine night,
From this union there came three,
A porpoise and a porgie and the other was me.

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Yo ho ho, the wind blows free,
Oh for a life on the rollin’ sea.

Late one night I was trimmin’ the glim
While singin’ the words from a heathen hymn,
A voice from starboard shouted ahoy,
And there was me mother sittin’ on a buoy.

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Tell me what has become of my children three,
Me mother she did ask of me.
One was exhibited as a talking fish,
The other was served on a chafing dish.

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Then the phosphorus splashed in her seaweed hair,
I looked again and me mother wasn’t there,
A voice came echoing out of the night,
Let the devil take the keeper of the Eddystone Light.

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