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Yo ho, Here's a tale |
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That's fair and dear to the hearts of those that sail |
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'Bout a lighthouse keeper and his bare faced wife |
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Who joined together for a different life |
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Yo ho, The winds and water tell the tale |
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My father was the keeper of the Eddystone light |
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He married a mermaid one fine night |
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From this union there came three |
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A porpoise and a porgy and the other one me! |
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Yo ho ho, the wind blows free, |
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Oh, for the life on the rolling sea! |
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Late one night, I was a-trimming of the glim |
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While singing a verse from the evening hymn |
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A voice on the starboard shouted "Ahoy!" |
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And there was my mother, a-sitting on a buoy. |
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Yo ho ho, the wind blows free, |
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Oh, for the life on the rolling sea! |
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"Tell me what has become of my children three?" |
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My mother she did asked of me. |
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One was exhibited as a talking fish |
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The other was served on a chafing dish. |
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Yo ho ho, the wind blows free, |
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Oh, for the life on the rolling sea! |
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Then the phosphorous flashed in her seaweed hair. |
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I looked again, and me mother wasn't there |
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A voice came echoing out from the night |
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"To Hell with the keeper of the Eddystone Light!" |
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Yo ho ho, the wind blows free, |
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Oh, for the life on the rolling sea! |
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Yo ho, Yo ho |
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Yo ho, Yo ho, Yo ho... |
