The Mermaid chords by Great Big Sea

Chords with lyrics

Simple song. Capo it to wherever suits your voice!

D MajorD
When I was a lad in a fishing town
   G+G       D MajorD
Me old man said to me:

"You can spend your life, your jolly life
    B minorBm      A augmentedA
Just sailing on the sea.
D MajorD
You can search the world for pretty girls
      G+G        F# minorF#m
Til your eyes are weak and dim,
   G+G            D MajorD
But don't go searching for a mermaid, son
    G+G      A augmentedA    D MajorD
If you don't know how to swim"

Chorus
      G+G        D MajorD
'Cause her hair was green as seaweed
   G+G         D MajorD
Her skin was blue and pale
   G+G          D MajorD
Her face it was a work of art,
  G+G           D MajorD
I loved that girl with all my heart
    G+G       D MajorD
But I only liked the upper part
  G+G    A augmentedA     D MajorD
I did not like the tail

  D MajorD
I signed onto a sailing ship
  G+G        D MajorD
My very first day at sea

I seen the Mermaid in the waves,
  B minorBm     A augmentedA
Reaching out to me
    D MajorD
"Come live with me in the sea said she,
 G+G        F# minorF#m
Down on the ocean floor
     G+G         D MajorD
And I'll show you a million wonderous things
    G+G   A augmentedA   D MajorD
You've never seen before
  D MajorD
So over I jumped and she pulled me down,
G+G          D MajorD
Down to her seaweed bed

On a pillow made of a tortoise-shell
   A augmentedA        A augmentedA
She placed beneath my head
  D MajorD
She fed me shrimp and caviar
 G+G      F# minorF#m
Upon a silver dish
     G+G            D MajorD
From her head to her waist it was just my taste
     G+G    A augmentedA     D MajorD
But the rest of her was a fish

Chorus
      G+G        D MajorD
'Cause her hair was green as seaweed
   G+G         D MajorD
Her skin was blue and pale
   G+G          D MajorD
Her face it was a work of art,
  G+G           D MajorD
I loved that girl with all my heart
    G+G       D MajorD
But I only liked the upper part
  G+G    A augmentedA     D MajorD
I did not like the tail

D MajorD
But then one day, she swam away
   G+G             D MajorD
So I sang to the clams and the whales

"Oh, how I miss her seaweed hair
    B minorBm         A augmentedA
And the silver shine of her scales
   D MajorD
But then her sister, she swam by
 G+G        F# minorF#m
And set my heart awhirl
      G+G        D MajorD
Cause her upper part was an ugly fish
    G+G    A augmentedA     D MajorD
But her bottom part was a girl

Chorus
     G+G        D MajorD
Yes her hair was green as seaweed
   G+G         D MajorD
Her skin was blue and pale
   G+G        D MajorD
Her legs they are a work of art,
  G+G           D MajorD
I loved that girl with all my heart
    G+G              D MajorD
And I don't give a damn about the upper part
    G+G      A augmentedA   D MajorD
Cause that's how I get my tail.

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