"Eddystone Light" genre: Celtic
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	This is the story of the lighthouse keeper of Eddystone, and illustrates the problem of having a mermaid as your girlfriend. The song is flanked by two polkas, Johnny Ryan's Polka and The 42£ Cheque.
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	Lyrics My father was the keeper of the Eddystone Light, And he slept with a mermaid one fine night, From this union there came three: A porpoise and a porgy and the other was me! Chorus: Yo-ho-ho the wind blows free, Oh for the life of the rolling sea! Well, late one night I was trimming the glim, While singing a verse from the evening hymn, A voice from starboard shouted: Ohoy! And there was me mother a-sitting on a bouy! Where are the rest of my children three? Me mother she did ask of me, One was exhibited as a talking fish, And the other was served on a chafing dish! Then the phosporous flashed in her seaweed hair, I looked again - and me mother wasn't there, A voice came echoing out of the night: To hell with the keeper of the Eddystone Light!

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