Key: G major•
Verse 1
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In the south of England
was a world -famous
It was built way back in,
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it was built and then this strong wind came out
and then this fell a lint on it.
there's a song about this,
it's a very exciting song,
it starts off with this rather quaint
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and curious introduction.
My father was the keeper
of the eddy stone light
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And he slept with the mermaid
From this union there sprang three
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A porpoise and a kipper
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The wind blows free
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Oh for a life on the rolling sea
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Boop.
One night, as I was a trimming of the glim,
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a singing of the verse
I hear as on the starboard a shout,
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ahoy.
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And there is me mother
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sitting on the buoy.
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Hope for a life on the rolling sea.
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Boop.
Now, what has become
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My mother then ups and asks of me.
Well, let me see now.
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Well, the first was exhibited
as a talking freak,
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and the other one I ate for
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lunch last week.
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hope for a life on the rolling sea.
Now tell me, mother,
before you're gone,
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where did we children three come from?
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well, we must have been born
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Ah, ha, ha, the wind blows free,
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over a life on the rolling sea.
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Boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop,
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boop, boop, boop, boop.
Now the phosphorus gleamed
in her seaweed hair,
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and I looked again, and me mother wasn't there,
but her voice echoed delicately through the night.
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You can go and ask the keeper
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Ha, ha, ha, the wind blows free.
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Hope for a life on the
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rolling sea.
Outro 1
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsC G D F
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