{"id":7404,"date":"2012-01-01T10:56:45","date_gmt":"2012-01-01T14:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7404"},"modified":"2019-11-07T17:55:36","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T21:55:36","slug":"eddystone-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7404","title":{"rendered":"Eddystone Light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/images\/Eddystone_Light.jpg\" width=\"500\/\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"audio\">\n<div class=\"alignright caption\"> <a href=\"?page_id=6069\">How do I download this Mp3?<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"audio_link\"> Mp3: <a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/music\/Eddystone_Light.mp3\">Eddystone Light &#8211; Click To Play<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"about\">\nCamilla and I have been sailing on the Queen Mary 2 for the past two weeks. There are posters on board of various light houses. The one depicting the Eddystone Light reminded me of this song. I recorded it in our stateroom and sent it up via satellite.<\/div>\n<div class=\"lyrics-header\">Lyrics:<\/div>\n<div class=\"lyrics\">\n<p>[C] Me father was the keeper of the Eddystone Light<br \/>\nAnd [F] courted a [G] mermaid [C] one fine night<br \/>\nFrom this union there come three<br \/>\nA [F] porpoise and a [G] porgy and the [C] other was me<\/p>\n<p>[Dm] Yo ho ho, the [G] wind blows free<br \/>\n[F] Oh, for the life on the rolling [C] sea<\/p>\n<p>One night, while I was trimming of the glim<br \/>\nSinging a verse from the evening hymn<br \/>\nA voice from the starboard shouted, &#8220;Ahoy&#8221;<br \/>\nAnd there was me mother, a-sitting on the buoy<\/p>\n<p>Tell me what has become of me children of three ?<br \/>\nMe mother she then asked of me<br \/>\nOne went on tour as a talking fish<br \/>\nAnd the other was served on a chafing dish<\/p>\n<p>Yo ho ho, the wind blows free<br \/>\nOh, for the life on the rolling sea<\/p>\n<p>Then the phosphorous flashed in her seaweed hair<br \/>\nI looked again me mother wasn&#8217;t there<br \/>\nHer voice came echoing out of the night<br \/>\n&#8220;To the devil with the keeper of the Eddystone Light&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Oh, yo ho ho, the wind blows free<br \/>\nOh, for the life on the rolling sea<\/p>\n<p>Me father was the keeper of the Eddystone Light<br \/>\nAnd courted a mermaid one fine night<br \/>\nFrom this union there come three<br \/>\nA porpoise and a porgy and the other was me<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/tools\/diggthis.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do I download this Mp3? Mp3: Eddystone Light &#8211; Click To Play Camilla and I have been sailing on the Queen Mary 2 for the past two weeks. There are posters on board of various light houses. The one depicting the Eddystone Light reminded me of this song. I recorded it in our stateroom &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7404\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Eddystone Light&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humorgameschildren","category-seafaring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7404"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8789,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7404\/revisions\/8789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}