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{t:Mermaid, The} {artist:Great Big Sea} {key:D} https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDhCgAoggX8 {c: Thanks Ian Backhouse } [D] When I was a lad in a fishing town me [G] old man said to me [D] "You can spend your life, your jolly life just sai-[Bm]ling on the sea.[A] You can [D] search the world for pretty girls 'til your [G] eyes are weak and [F#m] dim, But [G] don't go searching for [D] a mermaid, son [Bm] If you [G] don't know [A] how to [D] swim" {c: } [G] 'Cause her hair was green as [D] seaweed Her [G] skin was blue and [D] pale Her [G] face it was [D] a work of art, I [G] loved that girl [D] with all my heart But I on-[G]ly liked [D] the upper part [Bm] I [G] did not [A] like the [D] tail {c: } I [D] I signed on board a sailing ship, my [G] very first day at [D] sea I seen a Mermaid in the waves a [Bm] reaching out to [A] me Come [D] live with me in the sea said she, [G] down on the ocean [F#m] floor And I'll [G] show you a million [D] wondrous things, you've [G] never [A] seen be-[D]fore So [D] over I jumped and she pulled me down, [G] down to her seaweed [D] bed. And a pillow made of a tortoise-shell she [Bm] placed beneath my [A] head She [D] fed me shrimp and caviar [G] upon a silver [F#m] dish From her [G] head to her waist it was [D] just my taste But the [G] rest of [A] her was a [D] fish {c: } [G] 'Cause her hair was green as [D] seaweed Her [G] skin was blue and [D] pale Her [G] face it was [D] a work of art, I [G] loved that girl [D] with all my heart But I on-[G]ly liked [D] the upper part [Bm] I [G] did not [A] like the [D] tail {c: } [D] But then one day, she swam away, so I [G] sang to the clams and the [D] whales “Oh how I miss her seaweed hair, and the [Bm] silver shine of her scales” But [D] then her sister, she swam by and [G] set my heart [F#m] awhirl Cause her [G] upper part was an [D] ugly fish but her [G] bottom [A] part was a [D] girl [G] 'Her toes are pink and [D] rosy [D] Her [G] knees are smooth and pale [D] Her [G] legs they are a work of [D] art, I [G] love that girl with all my [D] heart But I don't [G] give a damn about the upper [D] part [Bm] Cause [G] that's how I [A] get my [D] tail.