Eddystone Light (2021 Digitally Remastered)-The Brothers Four

[ti:Eddystone Light] [ar:The Brothers Four] [al:Greenfields] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Eddystone Light (Remastered 2019) - The Brothers Four (四兄弟) [00:05.78]Yo ho here's a tale [00:10.16]That's near and dear [00:11.47]To the hearts of those that sail [00:14.77]'Bout a lighthouse keeper and his mermaid wife [00:17.09]Who joined together for a different life [00:19.39]Yo ho the winds and waters tell this tale [00:26.43]My father was the keeper of the Eddystone light [00:28.84]He married a mermaid one fine night [00:31.23]From this union there came three [00:33.59]A porpoise and a porgy and the other was me [00:36.31]Yo ho ho the wind blows free [00:41.37]Oh for a life on the rolling sea [00:48.42]Late one night I was trimming the glim [00:50.57]While singing a verse from the evening hymn [00:52.98]A voice from starboard shouted "Ahoy " [00:55.21]And there was my mother sitting on a buoy [00:57.65]Yo ho ho the wind blows free [01:03.05]Oh for a life on the rolling sea [01:09.67]"Tell me what has become of my children three " [01:12.25]My mother she did ask of me [01:14.51]One was exhibited as a talking fish [01:16.79]The other was served on a chafing dish [01:19.14]Yo ho ho the wind blows free [01:24.71]Oh for a life on the rolling sea [01:31.54]Then the phosphorous flashed in her seaweed hair [01:33.98]I looked again and me mother wasn't there [01:36.46]A voice came echoing out of the night [01:38.91]"To Hell with the keeper of the Eddystone Light" [01:41.43]Yo ho ho the wind blows free [01:46.57]Oh for a life on the rolling sea [01:53.24]Yo ho [01:55.36]Yo ho [01:57.77]Yo ho [02:00.19]Yo ho [02:02.30]Yo ho [02:04.98]Yo ho