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The Mermaid by Great Big Sea
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When I was a lad in a fishin' town
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My old man said to me:
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"You can spend your life, your jolly life
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Just sailin' on the sea.
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You can search the world for pretty girls
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Til your eyes grow weak and dim,
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But don't go searchin' for a mermaid, son
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If you don't know how to swim"
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(course)
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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, I loved that girl with all my heart
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I only liked the upper part
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I did not like the tail
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I signed onto a sailing ship
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My first very 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 wonderous 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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And a pillow made of 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 just my taste
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But the rest of her was a fish
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(course)
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Then one day, she swam away
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So I sang to the clams and the 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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Set my heart awhirl
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'Cause her upper part was an ugly fish
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An er bottom part was a girl
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Yes her hair was green as seaweed
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Her skin was blue and pale, her legs they are a work of art
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I love that girl with all my heart
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And I don't give a damn bout the upper part
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'Cause that's how I get my tail
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