The Mermaid Song-Bobby Bare

[ti:The Mermaid Song] [ar:Bobby Bare] [al:Bobby Bare's Country] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Mermaid Song - Bobby Bare (Bobby Bare) [00:06.44]When I was a lad in a fishing town [00:09.51]An old man said to me [00:11.50] [00:12.45]You can spend your life [00:14.34]Your jolly life just sailing on the sea [00:17.92] [00:18.90]You can search the world for pretty girls [00:22.17]Till your eyes're weak and dim [00:24.35] [00:25.71]But don't go swimming with a mermaid son [00:28.92]If you don't know how to swim [00:30.89] [00:31.64]'Cause her hair is green as seaweed [00:34.42] [00:35.32]And her skin is blue and pale [00:37.44] [00:38.46]And I tell you now before you start [00:41.50]You can love that girl with all your heart [00:44.86]But you're just gonna love the upper part [00:47.68] [00:48.25]You're not gonna like the tail [00:50.53] [00:53.17]So I signed onto a whaling ship [00:55.75] [00:56.41]And my very first day at sea [00:58.31] [00:59.22]I seen a mermaid in the waves a reaching out to me [01:04.62] [01:05.64]Come live with me in the sea said she [01:08.71] [01:09.22]And down on the ocean's floor [01:11.21] [01:12.18]I'll show you a million wonderous things [01:15.18] [01:16.04]You never seen before [01:17.71] [01:20.77]So over I jumped and she pulled me down [01:23.23] [01:23.94]Down to her seaweed bed [01:25.78] [01:26.72]And the pillow made of tortoise shell [01:30.33]She placed beneath my head [01:32.21] [01:33.47]She fed me shrimps and caviar upon a silver dish [01:38.76] [01:39.75]From her head to her waist she was just my taste [01:42.98]But the rest of her was a fish [01:45.41] [01:46.12]Her hair was green as seaweed [01:48.76] [01:49.52]And her skin was blue and pale [01:51.67] [01:52.60]And her face it was a work of art [01:56.15]I loved that girl with all my heart [01:59.44]But I only loved the upper part [02:02.05] [02:02.56]I did not like the tail [02:05.00] [02:07.56]Then one day she swam away [02:10.03] [02:10.78]And I sang to the clams and whales [02:12.89] [02:13.72]I missed her fins and her seaweed hair [02:16.97]And the silvery shine of her scales [02:19.36] [02:20.35]But then her sister she swam by [02:23.06] [02:23.57]And set my heart awhirl [02:25.53] [02:26.39]Cause her upper part was an ugly fish [02:30.02]But her bottom part was a girl [02:32.28] [02:33.21]Her toes are pink and rosy [02:35.43] [02:36.18]And her knees are smooth and pale [02:38.62] [02:39.43]And her legs they are a work of art [02:42.84]And I love that girl with all my heart [02:46.12]I don't give a damn 'bout the upper part [02:49.31]And that's how I end my tale