The Mermaid Song

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When I was a lad in a fishin' 
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town, an old man said to me
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"You can spend your life, your 
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jolly life, just sailin' on the sea
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You can search the world for pretty
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 girls 'til your eyes are weak and 
dim
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But don't go swimmin' with a 
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mermaid, son, if you don't know 
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how to swim!

[Verse 1]
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Well, I signed on to a whalin' 
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ship, and my very first day at sea
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I seen a mermaid in the waves, 
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a-reachin' out to me
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"Come live with me in the sea," 
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said she, "and down on the ocean's 
floor
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I'll show you a million wond'rous 
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things that you've never seen 
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before!"

[Verse 2]
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Over I jumped and she pulled me 
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down, down to her seaweed bed
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Where a pillow made of tortoise 
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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 waste she was 
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just my taste, but the rest of 
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her was fish!

[Chorus]
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And her hair was green as seaweed
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And her skin was blue and pale
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And her face it was a work of art
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And I loved that girl with all of my
 heart
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But I only loved the upper part
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I did not love the tail!

[Verse 3]
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Then one day she swam away, and I 
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sang to the clams and the whales
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How I missed her fins, and her 
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seaweed hair, and the silvery 
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shine of her scales
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Then her sister swam by, and set my 
heart a-whirl
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'Cuz her upper part was an ugly 
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fish, but the bottom part was GIRL!

[Chorus]
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And her toes are pink and rosey
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And her knees are soft and pale
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And her legs they are - a work of 
art
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And I love that girl with all my 
heart
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I don't give a damn about the 
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upper part
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And that's how I end my tale!