ฟังเพลงThe Eddystone Light

The Eddystone Light - Burl Ives (伯尔·艾夫斯)

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

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 boy

Yo ho ho the wind blows free

Oh for a life on the rolling sea

"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 "

Yo ho ho the wind blows free

Oh for a life on the rolling sea

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 "

Yo ho ho the wind blows free

Oh for a life on the rolling sea