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  • 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 wonderous 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 ...

    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 awhirl
    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.

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