"The Mermaid" lyrics
"The Mermaid"
When I was a lad in a fishing town
Me old man said to me
"You can spend your life, your jolly life
Just sailing on the sea
You can search the world for pretty girls
'Til your eyes are weak and dim
But don't go searching for a mermaid, son
If you don't know how to swim"
'Cause her hair was green as seaweed
Her skin was blue and pale
Her face it was a work of art
I loved that girl with all my heart
But I only liked the upper part
I did not like the tail
I signed onto a sailing ship
My very first day at sea
I seen the mermaid in the waves
Reaching out to me
"Come live with me in the sea," said she
"Down on the ocean floor
And I'll show you a million wondrous things
You've never seen before"
So over I jumped and she pulled me down
Down to her seaweed bed
On a pillow made of a tortoise-shell
She placed beneath my head
She fed me shrimp and caviar
Upon a silver dish
From her head to her waist it was just my taste
But the rest of her was a fish
'Cause her hair was green as seaweed
Her skin was blue and pale
Her face it was a work of art
I loved that girl with all my heart
I only liked the upper part
I did not like the tail
But then one day, she swam away
So I sang to the clams and the whales
"Oh, how I miss her seaweed hair
And the silver shine of her scales"
But then her sister, she swam by
And set my heart a-whirl
Cause her upper part was an ugly fish
But her bottom part was a girl
Yes her hair was green as seaweed
Her skin was blue and pale
Her legs they are a work of art
I loved that girl with all my heart
And I don't give a damn about the upper part
'Cause that's how I get my tail
Come here, me little darlin'. Show me your [?]
Here, fishy, fishy, fishy. [?]
Show me a fin
Thanks to Jody for adding these lyrics.
Writer(s): Shel Silverstein, Jim Friedman
- AZLyrics
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- Great Big Sea Lyrics
album:
"The Hard & The Easy" (2005)
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