| On the blue waters of mermaids
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| I was sailing on the blue
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| Brought up a catch of strangest wonder
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| On the blue
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| And I drew my knife to gut
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| What I had taken from the blue
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| But it was gone, back to the lake
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| And vanished into the blue
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| The waters, they parted
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| As she rose to shine
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| She was my maid, my wife-to-be
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| Returned to me this one time
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| I did not know her, I made her flee
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| Flee from me
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| Beneath the waves and marble rocks:
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| Watery canyons of blackest depths
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| My hope was sunk
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| My dream taken away, taken away
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| Woe to you, she said to me
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| As she broke cover of the blue
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| Don’t you know me?
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| I couldn’t be yours after all
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| I never knew
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| The waters, they parted
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| As she rose to shine
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| She was my maid, my wife-to-be
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| Returned to me this one time
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| I did not know her, I made her flee
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| Flee from me, flee from me
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| Beneath the waves and marble rocks:
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| Watery canyons of blackest depths
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| My hope was sunk
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| My dream taken away, taken away
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| Taken away |