The Mermaid Lyrics

The Mermaid lyrics

It was Friday morn when we sat sail
And we were not far from the land
When
our captain he spied a mermaid so fair
With a comb and a glass in her
hand

Then up spoke the captain of our gallant ship
And a fine old man
was he
"This fishy mermaid has warned me of our doom
We shall sink to
the bottom of the sea"

Then up spoke the cabin-boy of our gallant
ship
And a brave young lad was he
Saying "I have a sweetheart in
Brooklyn by the sea
And tonight she'll be weeping for me"

Then
up spoke the mate of our gallant ship
And a fine spoken man was he
Saying
"I have a wife in Salem by the sea
And tonight she'll be weeping for
me"

Three times round spun our gallant ship
And three times
round spun she
Three times round spun our gallant ship
And she sank to
the bottom of the sea

And the ocean waves do roll
And the stormy
winds do blow
And we poor sailors are skipping at the top
While the
land-lubbers lie down below, below, below
While the land-lubbers lie down
below