Tonart: A major
Verse 1
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When I was a lad in a fishing town,
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an old man said to me,you can
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spend your life, your jolly life,
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just sailing on the sea,
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you can search the world for pretty girls,
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till your eyes are weak and
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dim, but don't go swimming with a mermaid,
Verse 2
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Cause her hair is green as sea
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weed and her skin is blue and
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pale, and I'll tell you now before you start,
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girl with all your heart,
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but you're just gonna love the upper
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part, you're not gonna like the tail.
Verse 3
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So I signed on with a whaling ship,
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and my very first day at sea, I
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seen a mermaid in the waves a reaching out to me,
with me in the sea said she,
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and down on the ocean floor, I'll show
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you a million wondrous things,
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you've never seen before.
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Verse 4
So over I jumped and she pulled me down,
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down to her seaweed bed,
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and a pillow made of tortoise shell
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she placed beneath my
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head, she fed me shrimps and caviar,
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upon a silver dish, from
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her head to her waist she was just my taste,
Verse 5
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Her Fhair was green as Cseaweed and
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her Fskin was blue and Cpale,
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and her Fface it was a Cwork of
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art,and I Floved that girl with Call
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my heart, but I Fonly liked the Cupper part,
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I G7did not like the
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Ctail.
Verse 6
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CAnd then one day she swam away,
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and I Fsang to the clams and Cwhales,
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how I Fmissed her fins and her Cseaweed hair,
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and the D7silvery shine
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of her G7scales, but Cthen her sister,
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she swam by and Fset my heart a
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Cwhirl, cause her Fupper part was an Cugly fish,
Verse 7
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Her toes are pink and rosy,
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and her knees are smooth and
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pale, and her legs they are a working part,
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girl with all my heart,
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and I don't give a damn about the upper
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part, and that's how I end my tail.
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