Tom: D
D
When I was a lad in a fishing town
G D
Me old man said to me:
Bm
"You can spend your life, your jolly life
E A
Just sailing on the sea.
D
You can search the world for pretty girls
G F#m
Til your eyes are weak and dim,
G D Bm
But don't go searching for a mermaid, son
G A D
If you don't know how to swim"
[Chorus]
G D
'Cause her hair was green as seaweed
G D
Her skin was blue and pale
G D
Her face it was a work of art,
G D
I loved that girl with all my heart
G D Bm
But I only liked the upper part
G A D
I did not like the tail
[Interlude]
D / A (x4)
[Verse]
D
I signed onto a sailing ship
G D
My very first day at sea
Bm
I seen the Mermaid in the waves,
E A
Reaching out to me
D
"Come live with me in the sea said she,
G F#m
Down on the ocean floor
G D Bm
And I'll show you a million wonderous things
G A D
You've never seen before
D
So over I jumped and she pulled me down,
G D
Down to her seaweed bed
Bm
A pillow made of a tortoise-shell
E A
She placed beneath my head
D
She fed me shrimp and caviar
G F#m
Upon a silver dish
G D Bm
From her head to her waist it was just my taste
G A D
But the rest of her was a fish
[Chorus]
G D
'Cause her hair was green as seaweed
G D
Her skin was blue and pale
G D
Her face it was a work of art,
G D
I loved that girl with all my heart
G D Bm
But I only liked the upper part
G A D
I did not like the tail
[Interlude]
D / A (x4)
(hold last A)
[Verse]
D
But then one day, she swam away
G D
So I sang to the clams and the whales
Bm
"Oh, how I miss her seaweed hair
E A
And the silver shine of her scales
D
But then her sister, she swam by
G F#m
And set my heart awhirl
G D Bm
Cause her upper part was an ugly fish
G A D
But her bottom part was a girl
[Chorus]
G D
Yes her hair was green as seaweed
G D
Her skin was blue and pale
G D
Her legs they are a work of art,
G D
I love that girl with all my heart
G D
And I don't give a damn about the upper part
G A D
Cause that's how I get my tail.
