Well, when I was a lad in a fishin' town
An old man said to me:
You can spend your life, your jolly life
Just sailin' on the sea
You can search the world for pretty girls
Till your eyes are weak and dim
But, don't go swimmin' with a mermaid, son
If you don't know how to swim.

Her hair is green as seaweed, her skin is blue and pale
Her face it is a work of art
You can love that girl with all your heart
But you're only gonna like the upper part
You will not like the tail

So I signed on to a pirate ship
And me very first day at sea
I saw a mermaid in the waves,
Reachin' out for me
Come live with me in the sea she said
Upon the ocean floor
I'll show you a million wond'rous things
That you've never seen before.

So, o’er I jumped and she pulled me down
Down to her seaweed bed
And betwixt her clams and pearly shells,
She laid me weary head
She kissed me soft and deeply and anywhere I’d wish
From her crown to her waist she was just my taste,
But the rest of her was a fish!

All: Her hair was green as seaweed,
Her skin was blue and pale
Her face it was a work of art
I loved that girl with all me heart
But I only liked the upper part
I did not like the tail

Well, then one day she swam away
and left me blue and cold
How I missed her firm and perfect tits
the bits I liked to hold
but then her sister she swam by
And she set me heart a-whirl,
'Cause her upper part was an ugly fish
But the bottom part was a girl

Her skin is pink and rosy
Her legs are smooth and pale
Her thighs they are a work of art
I love that girl with all me heart
And I don't give a damn about the upper part
‘Cause now I’m getting tail!