Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song The Mermaid, artist - Shel Silverstein. Date of issue: 17.02.2022
Song language: English
The Mermaid |
| When I was a lad in a fishing town, an old man said to me |
| You can spend your life, your jolly life just sailing on the sea |
| You can search the world for pretty girls till your eyes’re weak and dim |
| But don’t go swimming with a mermaid son, if you don’t know how to swim |
| 'Cause her hair is green as seaweed and her skin is blue and pale |
| And I tell you now before you start you can love that girl with all your heart |
| But you’re just gonna love the upper part you’re not gonna like the tail |
| So I signed onto a whaling ship and my very first day at sea |
| I seen a mermaid in the waves a reaching out to me |
| Come live with me in the sea said she and down on the ocean’s floor |
| I’ll show you a million wonderous things you never seen before |
| So over I jumped and she pulled me down, down to her seaweed bed |
| And the pillow made of tortoise shell she placed beneath my head |
| She fed me shrimps and caviar upon a silver dish |
| From her head to her waist she was just my taste but the rest of her was a fish |
| Her hair was green as seaweed and her skin was blue and pale |
| And her face it was a work of art and I loved that girl with all my heart |
| But I only loved the upper part I did not like the tail |
| Then one day she swam away and I sang to the clams and whales |
| I missed her fins and her seaweed hair and the silvery shine of her scales |
| Then her sister she swam by and set my heart awhirl |
| Cause her upper part was an ugly fish, but the bottom part was a girl |
| Yeah her toes are pink and rosy and her knees are smooth and pale |
| And her legs they are a work of art and I love that girl with all my heart |
| I don’t give a damn 'bout the upper part and that’s how I end my tale… |