THE HARD AND THE EASY, BACK TO:
The Mermaid
Lyrics
Well I was a lad in the fishing town
An old man said to me
'You can spend your life, your jolly life just sailing on the seas
You can search the world for pretty girls till 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 love that girl with all my heart
But I only liked the upper part
I did not like the tail
So I signed on to a whaling ship
My first very day at sea
I seen a mermaid in the waves
Reaching out to me
Come live with me in the sea she said
Down on the ocean floor
I’ll show you a million wondrous things that you never seen before
So over I jumped and she pulled me down
Down to her seaweed bed
And a pillow made of a turtle 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 love 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 awhirl
Cause her upper part was an ugly fish
But her bottom part was a girl
Yes her hair is green as seaweed
Her skin is blue and pale
Her legs they are a work of art
I love that girl with all my heart
I don’t give a damn about the upper part
Cause that’s how I get my tail