1. Oh, my father was the keeper of the eddystone light
   And he slept with a mermaid one fine night.
   From this union there sprang three,
   A porpoise and a porgy and the other was me.
   
R: Yo ho ho, the wind blows free, ho for the life on the rolling sea 
   
2. One night when I was a-trimmin' of the glim
   Singin' a verse from the evening hymn
   A voice from the starboard shouted, "Ahoy!"
   And there was my mother a-sittin' on the buoy 
R:
   
3. "Oh what has become of my children three?"
   Me mother then she asked of me
   One was exhibited as a talking fish
   The other was served in a chafing dish 
R:
   
4. The phosporus flashed in her seaweed hair
   I looked again, and my mother wasn't there
   But her voice came an echoing back through the night:
   "To hell with the keeper of the Eddystone light!"