The Mermaid Song Guitar Chords by Bobby Bare

[Intro]
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When I was a lad in a fishin' town, an old man said to me
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"You can spend your life, your jolly life, just sailin' on the sea
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You can search the world for pretty girls 'til your eyes are weak and dim
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But don't go swimmin' with a mermaid, son, if you don't know how to swim!

[Verse 1]
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Well, I signed on to a whalin' ship, and my very first day at sea
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I seen a mermaid in the waves, a-reachin' out to me
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"Come live with me in the sea," said she, "and down on the ocean's floor
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I'll show you a million wond'rous things that you've never seen before!"

[Verse 2]
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Over I jumped and she pulled me down, down to her seaweed bed
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Where a pillow made of tortoise shells, she placed beneath my head
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She fed me shrimps and caviar upon a silver dish
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From her head to her waste she was just my taste, but the rest of her was fish!

[Chorus]
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And her hair was green as seaweed
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And her skin was blue and pale
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And her face it was a work of art
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And I loved that girl with all of my heart
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But I only loved the upper part
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I did not love the tail!

[Verse 3]
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Then one day she swam away, and I sang to the clams and the whales
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How I missed her fins, and her seaweed hair, and the silvery shine of her scales
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Then her sister swam by, and set my heart a-whirl
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'Cuz her upper part was an ugly fish, but the bottom part was GIRL!

[Chorus]
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And her toes are pink and rosey
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And her knees are soft and pale
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And her legs they are - a work of art
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And I love that girl with all my heart
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I don't give a damn about the upper part
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And that's how I end my tale!