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The Mermaid
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One night as I lay on my bed,
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I lay so fast asleep,
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When the thought of my true love came running to my head
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And poor sailors that sail on the deep.
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As I sailed out one day, one day,
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And being not far from land,
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And there I spied a mermaid a-sitting on a rock
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With a comb and a glass in her hand.
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The song she sang, she sang so sweet,
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But no answer at all could us make,
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Till at last our gallant ship she tooked round about
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Which made all our poor hearts to ache.
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Then up stepped the helmsman of our ship
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In his hand a lead and line;
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All for to sound the seas, my boys, that is so wide and deep
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But to hard rock or sand could he find.
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Then up stepped the captain of our ship
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And a well-speaking man is he,
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He says, " I have a wife, my boys, in fair Plymouth town
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But this night a widow she will be. "
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Then up stepped the bosun of our ship
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And a well-spoken man was he,
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He says, "I have two sons, my boys, in fair Bristol town
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And orphans I fear they will be.
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And then up stepped the little cabin boy
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And a pretty boy was he,
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He says, "Oh I grieve for my own mother dear
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Whom I shall nevermore see. "
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"Last night, when the moon shined bright
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My mother had sons five,
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But now she may look in the salt, salt sea
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And find but one alive. "
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Call a boat, call a boat, my fair Plymouth boys
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Don't you hear how the trumpets sound?
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For the want of a long-boat in the ocean we were lost
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And most of our merry men drowned.
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From Penguin Book of English Folk Songs (Williams and Lloyd)
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From singing of James Herridge, 1906
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See also mermdfri
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Child #289
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Filename[ mermaid3
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Play. Exe mermaid3
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