《The Mermaid Song》歌词

[00:00:00] The Mermaid Song - Bobby Bare (Bobby Bare)

[00:00:06] When I was a lad in a fishing town

[00:00:09] An old man said to me

[00:00:12] You can spend your life

[00:00:14] Your jolly life just sailing on the sea

[00:00:18] You can search the world for pretty girls

[00:00:22] Till your eyes're weak and dim

[00:00:25] But don't go swimming with a mermaid son

[00:00:28] If you don't know how to swim

[00:00:31] 'Cause her hair is green as seaweed

[00:00:35] And her skin is blue and pale

[00:00:38] And I tell you now before you start

[00:00:41] You can love that girl with all your heart

[00:00:44] But you're just gonna love the upper part

[00:00:48] You're not gonna like the tail

[00:00:53] So I signed onto a whaling ship

[00:00:56] And my very first day at sea

[00:00:59] I seen a mermaid in the waves a reaching out to me

[00:01:05] Come live with me in the sea said she

[00:01:09] And down on the ocean's floor

[00:01:12] I'll show you a million wonderous things

[00:01:16] You never seen before

[00:01:20] So over I jumped and she pulled me down

[00:01:23] Down to her seaweed bed

[00:01:26] And the pillow made of tortoise shell

[00:01:30] She placed beneath my head

[00:01:33] She fed me shrimps and caviar upon a silver dish

[00:01:39] From her head to her waist she was just my taste

[00:01:42] But the rest of her was a fish

[00:01:46] Her hair was green as seaweed

[00:01:49] And her skin was blue and pale

[00:01:52] And her face it was a work of art

[00:01:56] I loved that girl with all my heart

[00:01:59] But I only loved the upper part

[00:02:02] I did not like the tail

[00:02:07] Then one day she swam away

[00:02:10] And I sang to the clams and whales

[00:02:13] I missed her fins and her seaweed hair

[00:02:16] And the silvery shine of her scales

[00:02:20] But then her sister she swam by

[00:02:23] And set my heart awhirl

[00:02:26] Cause her upper part was an ugly fish

[00:02:30] But her bottom part was a girl

[00:02:33] Her toes are pink and rosy

[00:02:36] And her knees are smooth and pale

[00:02:39] And her legs they are a work of art

[00:02:42] And I love that girl with all my heart

[00:02:46] I don't give a damn 'bout the upper part

[00:02:49] And that's how I end my tale