The Mermaid

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