Yo ho, Here's a tale

That's fair and dear to the hearts of those that sail

'Bout a lighthouse keeper and his bare faced wife

Who joined together for a different life

Yo ho, The winds and water tell the tale


My father was the keeper of the Eddystone light 

He married a mermaid one fine night 

From this union there came three 

A porpoise and a porgy and the other one me! 


Yo ho ho, the wind blows free, 

Oh, for the life on the rolling sea! 


Late one night, I was a-trimming of the glim 

While singing a verse from the evening hymn 

A voice on 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! 


"Tell me what has become of my children three?" 

My mother she did asked of me. 

One was exhibited as a talking fish 

The other was served on 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. 

I looked again, and me mother wasn't there 

A voice came echoing out from 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!


Yo ho, Yo ho

Yo ho,Yo ho, Yo ho...