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[00:04.63]Yo ho, Here's a tale
[00:09.14]That's fair and dear to the hearts of those that sail
[00:13.78]'Bout a lighthouse keeper and his bare faced wife
[00:16.54]Who joined together for a different life
[00:18.38]Yo ho, The winds and water tell the tale
[00:25.64]My father was the keeper of the Eddystone light
[00:27.44]He married a mermaid one fine night
[00:30.19]From this union there came three
[00:33.00]A porpoise and a porgy and the other one me!
[00:35.65]Yo ho ho, the wind blows free,
[00:41.14]Oh, for the life on the rolling sea!
[00:47.41]Late one night, I was a-trimming of the glim
[00:50.13]While singing a verse from the evening hymn
[00:51.96]A voice on the starboard shouted "Ahoy!"
[00:54.75]And there was my mother, a-sitting on a buoy.
[00:57.45]Yo ho ho, the wind blows free,
[01:02.80]Oh, for the life on the rolling sea!
[01:09.26]"Tell me what has become of my children three?"
[01:11.00]My mother she did asked of me.
[01:13.79]One was exhibited as a talking fish
[01:16.56]The other was served on a chafing dish.
[01:19.28]Yo ho ho, the wind blows free,
[01:23.77]Oh, for the life on the rolling sea!
[01:31.02]Then the phosphorous flashed in her seaweed hair.
[01:33.82]I looked again, and me mother wasn't there
[01:36.57]A voice came echoing out from the night
[01:38.36]"To Hell with the keeper of the Eddystone Light!"
[01:41.14]Yo ho ho, the wind blows free,
[01:45.76]Oh, for the life on the rolling sea!
[01:52.91]Yo ho, Yo ho
[01:57.56]Yo ho, Yo ho, Yo ho...
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