The Mermaid

[Intro ]

C N.C.                     C  N.C.         F           G       C 
Hey, when I was a lad in a fishing town an old man, he said to me 
         F          C          F     C         Am      D      G 
"You can spend your life, your jolly life just sailing on the sea 
             C                           C7              F             E   Am 
Now, you can search the world for pretty girls 'til your eyes are weak and dim 
    C                          Am                   F     G           C 
But don't go swimming with the mermaids, son if you don't know how to swim 
       D          G      C 
If you don't know how to swim 


[Refrão]
 
        F                C 
For her hair is green as seaweed 
        F        G        C 
And her eyes are blue and pale 
         Am 
And I'll tell you now before you start 
        Am 
You can love that girl with all your heart 
           F                   Em    Am 
But you're just gonna love the upper part 
       D         G        C 
You're not gonna like the tail" 
C        Am      D      G 
Rakadaka doo doo rakada doo 
C        Am      D     G 
Rakadaka doo doo da da doo 
 


[Verso 1]
 
   C                                   F                 C 
So I signed onto a whaling ship and my very first day at sea 
  F              C            Am       D      G 
I seen a mermaid in the waves reaching out to me 
 C                            C7                   F           E       Am 
"Come and live with me in the sea, " said she "and down on the ocean's floor 
D    C                  Am                    D      G      C 
I'll show you a million wondrous things you've never seen before 
Am         D     G      C 
Oh, you've never seen before" 
 


[Verso 2]
 
C                                  F                     C 
So over I jumped and she pulled me down own to a seaweed bed 
      F                C              Am           D        G 
And a pillow made of a tortoise shell she placed beneath my head 
    C                  C7      F     E      Am 
She fed me shrimps and caviar upon a silver dish 
D        C                         Am                       D      G          C 
From her head to her waist she was just to my taste but the bottom part was a fish 
Am      D      G          C 
Oh, her bottom part was a fish 
 


[Refrão]
 
         F                 C 
Yes, her hair was green as seaweed 
    F         G        C 
Her eyes were blue and pale 
      Am 
And I loved that girl with all my heart 
  Am 
I vowed we'd never part 
      F                  Em      Am 
But I knew that that was not too smart 
       D         G        C 
'Cause I did not like the tail 
C        Am      D      G 
Rakadaka doo doo roodoo da 
C        Am       D      G 
Rooooooo rakadiki da doo da 
 


[Verso 3]
 
    C                             F               C 
And then one day when I looked up I saw a sailing ship 
      F                  C           Am       D       G 
And I met the stare of a millionaire out on a fishing trip 
       C               C7                   F          E             Am 
Now, a diamond ring he tied to a string and lowered it down into the water 
D      C                Am                    D            G      C 
And my love divine, she went for his line and that was the way he caught her 
Am   D            G      C 
Yes, that was the way he caught her 
 


[Verso 4]
 
     C                           F                     C 
So I sat and cried into the tide sang to the clams and whales 
      F                   C                    Am      D            G 
How I missed my love, her seaweed hair and the silvery shine of her scales 
    C                C7              F      E      Am 
And then her sister, she swam by and set my heart awhirl 
D       C                 Am                D      G        C 
For her upper part was an ugly fish but the bottom part was girl 
Am       D      G        C 
Yes, the bottom part was girl 
 


[Refrão]
 
         F                  C 
Yes, her knees are pink and rosy 
        F        G         C 
And her toes are small and frail 
    Am 
Her body, it's a work of art 
      Am 
And I love that girl with all my heart 
      F                           Em    Am 
And I don't give a damn about the upper part 
    D            G      C 
And that's how I end my tale