The Mermaid - Bobby Bare Chords
Chords: C, F, D7, G7
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C F C
When I was a lad in a fishing town, an old man said to me,you can
F C F D7 G7
spend your life, your jolly life, just sailing on the sea,
C F
you can search the world for pretty girls, till your eyes are weak and
C F C G7
dim, but don't go swimming with a mermaid, son, if you don't
C
know how to swim.
C F C F
Cause her hair is green as seaweed and her skin is blue and
C F C F
pale, and I'll tell you now before you start, you can love that
C G7 C
girl with all your heart, but you're just gonna love the upper
F C G7 C
part, you're not gonna like the tail.
C F C
So I signed on with a whaling ship, and my very first day at sea, I
F C D7 G7 C
seen a mermaid in the waves a reaching out to me, come live
F C F
with me in the sea said she, and down on the ocean floor, I'll show
C G7 C
you a million wondrous things, you've never seen before.
C F C
So over I jumped and she pulled me down, down to her seaweed bed,
F C D7
and a pillow made of tortoise shell she placed beneath my
G7 C F C
head, she fed me shrimps and caviar, upon a silver dish, from
F C G7
her head to her waist she was just my taste, but the rest of her
C
was a fish.
F C F C
Her hair was green as seaweed and her skin was blue and pale,
F C F C
and her face it was a work of art,and I loved that girl with all
F C G7
my heart, but I only liked the upper part, I did not like the
C
tail.
C F C
And then one day she swam away, and I sang to the clams and whales,
F C D7
how I missed her fins and her seaweed hair, and the silvery shine
G7 C F
of her scales, but then her sister, she swam by and set my heart a
C F C G7
whirl, cause her upper part was an ugly fish, but the bottom
C
part was a girl.
C F C F
Her toes are pink and rosy, and her knees are smooth and
C F C F
pale, and her legs they are a working part, and I love that
C F C
girl with all my heart, and I don't give a damn about the upper
G7 C
part, and that's how I end my tail.
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