Burl Ives - The Eddystone Light - Текст песни

Burl Ives - The Eddystone light

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 a life on the rolling sea. 

One night while I was a-trimmin' of the glim 
A-singin' a verse from the evening hymn, 
A voice from the starboard shouted, ???Ahoy!??? 
And there was my mother a-sittin' on a buoy. 

???Oh, what has become of my children three???? 
My mother then she asked of me 
???One was exhibited as a talking fish 
And the other was served in a chafing dish.??? 

Then the phosphorus flashed in her seaweed hair; 
I looked again, and my mother wasn't there. 
A voice come a-echoing out through the night: 
???To Hell with the keeper of the Eddystone Light!???