Oh, my father was the keeper of the eddystone light
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And he slept with a mermaid one fine night.
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From this union there sprang three,
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A porpoise and a porgy and the other was me.
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Chorus:
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Yo ho ho, the wind blows free, ho for the life on the rolling sea
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One night when I was a-trimmin' of the glim
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Singin' a verse from the evening hymn
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A voice from the starboard shouted, "Ahoy!"
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And there was my mother a-sittin' on the buoy
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Chorus
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"Oh what has become of my children three?"
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Me mother then she asked of me
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One was exhibited as a talking fish
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The other was served in a chafing dish
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Chorus
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The phosporus flashed in her seaweed hair
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I looked again, and my mother wasn't there
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But her voice came an echoing back through the night:
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"To hell with the keeper of the Eddystone light!"
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THE EDDYSTONE LIGHT
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| Peter, Paul & Mary |
