Name: The Eddystone Light
Duration: P00H01M25S
Description: This lighthearted sea song refers to the Eddystone Lighthouse, a lighthouse off the coast of Devon. It has been sung by Burl Ives, Mary Travers and The Weavers. As with so many of the songs I know, I learnt it at Forest School camps.

The Eddystone Light

from Of Love and War by Roary Skaista

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This lighthearted sea song refers to the Eddystone Lighthouse, a lighthouse off the coast of Devon. It has been sung by Burl Ives, Mary Travers and The Weavers. As with so many of the songs I know, I learnt it at Forest School camps.

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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 porky and a porpoise and the other was me.

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

'Twas late one night I was a-trimmin' of the glim
And singing a verse of an evening hymn
A voice from starboard I heard a shout, "Ahoy"
And there was me mother sitting on the buoy.

Yo ho ho, the wind blows free,
Oh for a life on the rolling sea.
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"Oh what has become of me children three?"
Me mother then she asked of me.
"One was exhibited as a talking fish
And the other was served on a chafing dish!"

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

The phosphorus flashed in her seaweed hair.
I looked again, but me mother wasn't there.
A voice cam echoing out of the night,
"To hell with the keeper of the Eddystone Light!"

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

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from Of Love and War, released August 1, 2016
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Roary Skaista is a queer folk musician based in Oxford, performing traditional folk songs as well as their own material on the themes of love, nature and diversity.

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