Key: Bb major
Verse 1
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Am
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When I was
a lad in a fishin' town
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My old man said to me
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You could live a life, such a jollied life
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D
Sailin' on the sea
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Cm
Your eyes are weak and dim
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If you don't know how to swim
Em
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You don't know how to swim,
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for her hair is green as seaweed,
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and her eyes are blue and pale.
Em
Bm
But I'll tell you now, before you start,
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Bm
you may love that girl with all your heart,
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Em
you're just gonna love the upper part,
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you're not gonna love the tail.
Em
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Em
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So I sailed on to a whaling ship,
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and the very first day at sea,
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C
I seen a mermaid in the waves
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smiling up at me
said she,
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Cm
down on the ocean floor
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you'd never seen be fore
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You'd never seen be fore
So in I jumped and she pulled me down,
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down to a seaweed bed
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C
A pillow she made of a tortoise shell
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and placed beneath my head
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Cm
upon a silver dish.
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but the rest of her was fish.
Em
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D
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The rest of her was fish.
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Oh, her hair was green as seaweed,
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and her eyes were blue and pale.
Em
Bm
And her face, it was a work of art,
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Bm
but I only gave her half my heart.
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Em
For though I loved the up per part,
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Em
I could not love the tail.
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Em
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And then one day she swam away,
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So I sang to the clams and whales
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How I loved her eyes and
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All but her silvery scales.
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And set my heart a -whirl.
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Em
For her upper part was a big ugly fish,
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but the rest of her was girl,
Em
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the rest of her was girl.
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Oh, her toes were round and rosy,
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and her knees were thin and pale,
Em
Bm
and her leg s they were a work of art,
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Em
I didn't give a damn about the upper part,
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and that's how I end my tale.
you
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