CHORUS

Shine, oh, shine on me

Save me from the roaring sea

Shine, oh, shine on down

Light the way to harbour for us sailors doomed to drown

VERSE 1

Down where the Roaring Forties wail

Shine on

Maatsuyker (Mat-sigh-ker) stands against the gales

Shine on

Where only the mad seaman sails

Among the sharks and humpback whales

It rewrites the shipwreck tales.

Shine on

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VERSE 2

In the wild and stormy night

Shine on

There shone out the Boston Light

Shine on

Fog signals when there's no sight

And Snowman makes it like daylight

Twenty-seven miles, full bright

Shine on

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VERSE 3

In the wide winds of Biscay

Shine on

Old Courdouan (Kor-dwan), he lights the way

Shine on

The oldest one in France today

The 'Patriarch' as some may say

Protecting estuary and bay

Shine on

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VERSE 4

Punta Carina, Italy

Shine on

Southwest of Anacapri

Shine on

Il navigante on the quay

Have been saved by its masonry

For well over a century

Shine on

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VERSE 5

Thanks to all the automation

Shine on

They light the way for every nation

Shine on

The treasury's in celebration

But mechanical mutation

Means none call their home my station

Shine on

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VERSE 6

The keeper's job is dead and gone

Shine on

The machine keeps us burning on

Shine on

We saved on costs, we're going strong

But really was it oh so wrong

To pay souls for the job to help me

Shine on

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