| Music File Charles Wingate |
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| The first lighthouse was built at Eddystone Rocks, a reef south of Plymouth England, in 1698. This song refers to the fourth lighthouse, built by James Smeaton between 1756 and 1759. That lighthouse stood for 127 years. Cracks at the base eventually caused another to be built. The Smeaton lighthouse was dismantled and rebuilt on Plymouth Hoe. |
My father was the keeper of the Eddystone light And he slept with a mermaid one fine night Out of this union there came three A porpoise and a porgy and the other was me! Yo ho ho, the wind blows free, Oh for the life on the rolling sea! One night, as I was a-trimming the glim Singing a verse from the evening hymn I head a voice cry out an "Ahoy!" And there was my mother, sitting on a buoy. Yo ho ho, the wind blows free, Oh for the life on the rolling sea! "Oh, what has become of my children three?" My mother then inquired of me. One's on exhibit as a talking fish The other was served in a chafing dish. Yo ho ho, the wind blows free, Oh for the life on the rolling sea! Then the phosphorus flashed in her seaweed hair. I looked again, and my mother wasn't there But her voice came angrily out of the night "To Hell with the keeper of the Eddystone Light!" Yo ho ho, the wind blows free, Oh for the life on the rolling sea! |
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