The Mermaid Song
[Verse 1]
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Well, I was a lad in a fishin town, an Old Man said to me.
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You can spend your life, your jolly life just sailin on the sea.
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You can search the world for Pretty girls, Till your eyes are weak and dim.
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But don’t go swimming with a mermaid son, if you don’t know how to swim.
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Cause her hair is green as seaweed. And her skin is blue and pale.
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I’ll tell you now before you start, You can love that girl with all your heart.
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But you’re only gonna love the upper part, (Pause) You’re not gonna like the tail.
[Verse 2]
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So I signed on with a whaling ship and the very first day at sea.
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I seen a mermaid in the waves she was reaching out to me.
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Come live with me in the sea said she and down on the oceans floor.
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I’ll show you a million wondrous things, you never seen before.
[Verse 3]
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So over I jumped and she pulled me down, Down to her seaweed bed.
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And a pillow made of tortoise shells she placed beneath my head.
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She fed me shrimps and caviar, upon a silver dish.
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From her head to her waist she was just my taste, But the rest of her was a fiiiish.
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Yeah, her hair is green as seaweed. And her skin is blue and pale.
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And her face it was a work of art, And I loved that girl with all my heart.
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But I only loved the upper part, (Pause) I did not like the tail.
[Verse 4]
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Then one day she swam away, and I sang to the clams and whales.
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I missed her fins and her seaweed hair and the silvery shine of her scales.
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Then her sister she swam by, and set my heart a whirl.
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Cause the upper part was an ugly fish but the bottom part was girl. YEAHHH
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Her toes were pink and rosey. And her knees were smooth and pale.
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And her legs they are a work of art, and I love that girl with all my heart.
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I don’t give a hoot about the upper part, (Pause) And that’s how I’ll end my tail.