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Erika Eigen - I Want To Marry A Lighthouse Keeper

April 20, 2008 · Print This Article

Erika Eigen - I Want To Marry A Lighthouse Keeper (pdf)

This song has been a theme tune twice over. It was used in the soundtrack to A Clockwork Orange and, more recently, featured in a Marks and Spencer’s ad. The ad features some of the world’s most beautiful women and Myleene Klass (Heather: I’m doing it just to wind you up now) doing what supermodels do: watering plants in unusual positions, playing golf in their undies and ensuring the smooth passage of sea-going vessels.

If there’s not enough uke in this version for you, the song was covered to great advantage by Shorty Long (the ukulele heroes rather than the R&B guy).

The chorder is a classic retro-20s/30s chord progression. It’s definitely worth setting the sound of this one to memory. You’ll hear the turnaround section (”I’ll polish his lamp…”) all over the place.

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12 Responses to “Erika Eigen - I Want To Marry A Lighthouse Keeper”

  1. Heather on April 20th, 2008 7:47 pm

    You bastard!! ;)

    Thanks for doing this one - I love this song.

  2. p9000 on April 21st, 2008 1:08 am

    OOooOOOoooooHHHhh sweeeeEEEeeeet! I LOVE this song! Many thanks!

  3. Brian on April 21st, 2008 7:39 am

    Hi-whenever I hear this I want to commit some ultraviolence and then dress in M&S pants!
    good chords
    Brian

  4. Woodshed on April 21st, 2008 11:42 pm

    p9000: You’re welcome.

    Brian: That’s a coincidence. When I hear it, I want to wear a bra and panties and drink moloko.

  5. Heather on April 22nd, 2008 3:40 am

    Unlike every other moment you’re awake, you mean?

  6. Danny on April 22nd, 2008 3:54 pm

    Wasnt this a cover version?
    Thought the version on a Clockwork Orange was by Rachael Elkind. Great little track whoever its by

  7. Woodshed on April 22nd, 2008 11:07 pm

    Heather: Not at all. I hardly ever drink milk.

    Danny: I think Rachael Elkind wrote the score for the film, but I’m pretty sure Eigen wrote and performed this song.

  8. Sam on April 23rd, 2008 10:06 am

    This song works really well on the uke. Many thanks! What would you call this genre of music though? I’d like to find more fun songs like this one to play, but I have no idea what to search for.

    Thanks again.

  9. Woodshed on April 23rd, 2008 10:31 pm

    You might try looking into ‘hokum’, Sam. Some particularly fine acts are The White Ghost Shivers, The Asylum Street Spankers and, of course, Shorty Long.

  10. Robert on June 3rd, 2008 3:24 pm

    I find this Lighthouse keeper M&S advertisment so jolly and uplifting. Ideal for dull weather. Those girls are so charming in their cute litlle charades that I just want to go there!

  11. arch on October 31st, 2008 5:47 am

    http://www.ukulelecosmos.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=6710&highlight=lighthouse

  12. Feef on June 21st, 2009 4:58 pm

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaXfD4mpHRs
    I really like playing this!

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