Mermaid

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When I was a lad in a fishing town
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Me old man said to me:
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"You can 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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Til your eyes are weak and dim
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But don't go searching for a 
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mermaid, son
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If you don't know how to swim"

[Chorus]
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'Cause her hair was green as seaweed
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Her skin was blue and pale
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Her face it was a work of art
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I loved that girl with all my heart
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But I only liked the upper part
   Em      A        D
I did not like the tail
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[Verse 2]
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I signed onto a sailing ship
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My very first day at sea
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I seen the Mermaid in the waves
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Reaching out to me
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"Come live with me in the sea said 
she
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Down on the ocean floor
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And I'll show you a million 
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wondrous things
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You've never seen before
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So over I jumped and she pulled me 
down
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Down to her seaweed bed
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On a pillow made of a tortoise-shell
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She placed beneath my head
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She fed me shrimp and caviar
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Upon a silver dish
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From her head to her waist it was 
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just my taste
         Em      A         D
But the rest of her was a fish

[Chorus]
            G                 D
'Cause her hair was green as seaweed
     G                 D
Her skin was blue and pale
     G             D
Her face it was a work of art
   G                    D
I loved that girl with all my heart
       G              D      Bm
But I only liked the upper part
   Em      A        D
I did not like the tail
A D A D A   D G x5

[Verse 3]
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But then one day, she swam away
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So I sang to the clams and the 
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whales
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"Oh, how I miss her seaweed hair
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And the silver shine of her scales
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But then her sister, she swam by
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And set my heart awhirl
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'Cause her upper part was an ugly 
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fish
         Em      A         D
But her bottom part was a girl

[Chorus]
          G                 D
Yes, her hair was green as seaweed
     G                 D
Her skin was blue and pale
     G                D
Her legs they are a work of art
   G                   D
I love that girl with all my heart
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And I don't give a damn 'bout the 
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upper part
        Em       N.C.
'Cause that's how I gets my tail!