Chords:
{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"
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[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
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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
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[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
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[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.
