Mermaid Song
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When I was a lad in a fishing town, an old man said to me, 
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Well you can spend your life, your jolly life just sailing on the seas. 
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You can search the world for pretty girls,  Till your eyes grow weak and dim,
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But don't go swimming with a mermaid son, if you don't know how to swim

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  Cause her hair is green as seaweed,  and her skin is smooth and pale
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And her face it is a work of art and you could love that girl with all your heart,
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But your only gonna love the upper part, Your not gonna like the tail. 

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So I signed on to a whaling ship and the very first day at sea
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I seen a mermaid in the waves just calling out to me, 
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 Come live with me in the sea, and down on the ocean floor
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I'll show you a million wondrous things You never saw before. 
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So over the railing I jumped and she pulled me down to her seaweed bed
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And a pillow made of tortoise shell she placed beneath my head,
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She fed me shrimp and caviar and gave me every wish 
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From her head to waist she was just my taste,But the rest of her was a fish. 

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  Cause her hair is green as seaweed,  and her skin is smooth and pale
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And her face it is a work of art and you could love that girl with all your heart,
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But your only gonna love the upper part, Your not gonna like the tail. 

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 And then one day she swam away and I sang to the clams and whales
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And I sure did miss her pretty face and her shiny part of her scales
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But all of a sudden her sister swam by and set my heart a whirl,
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Cause her upper part was an ugly fish,but the rest of her was a GIRL,


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Oh her toes were pink and rosy  and her skin is smooth pale  
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And her legs they are a work of art, and I love that girl with all my  heart
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I don't give a damn about the upper part,  and that's how I end my TALE.