The Mermaid Lyrics - The Hard & The Easy - Great Big Sea

The Mermaid by Great Big Sea 

When I was a lad in a fishin' town 

My old man said to me: 

"You can spend your life, your jolly life 

Just sailin' on the sea. 

You can search the world for pretty girls 

Til your eyes grow weak and dim, 

But don't go searchin' for a mermaid, son 

If you don't know how to swim" 

(course) 

'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 

I signed onto a sailing ship 

My first very 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 wonderous things, 

you've never seen before 

So over I jumped and she pulled me down, 

Down to her seaweed bed 

And a pillow made of 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 

(course) 

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 

Set my heart awhirl 

'Cause her upper part was an ugly fish 

An er 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 love that girl with all my heart 

And I don't give a damn bout the upper part 

'Cause that's how I get my tail