"Eddystone Light" lyrics

Oh my father was the keeper of the Eddystone light
He slept with a mermaid one fine night
From this union there came three
A porpoise and a porgy and the other one is me!

Yo ho ho, the wind blows free
Oh, for the life on the rolling sea!

One night as I was a-trimming of the glim
Singing a verse of the evening hymn
A voice from the starboard shouted "Ahoy!"
And there was my mother, a-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 she asked of me
One was exhibited 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 phosphorous flashed in her seaweed hair
He looked again, and his mother wasn't there
A voice came echoing 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!